Would we take a flame retardant and lace it into our soft drinks?
"It begs belief that it should find its way into soft drinks," says a website covering the topic. Yet, 10 percent of America's sodas have this ingredient. Mountain Dew, Squirt and Fanta Orange are among them.
Let's look at it this way: What if you had a friend who was coming up with a nice little drink of his own, but having a problem keeping some of the ingredients from separating to the top. Somehow, he gets hold of a flame retardant, and puts just a wee bit into the drink, and -- presto -- the flavoring stno longer floats to the top.
You look on the ingredients to the flame retardant and find it has bromine, a toxic, corrosive, poisonous chemical.
Wouldn't you shake your head in amazement, tell him you by no means are going to drink any of his soda, and try to talk some sense into him?
And, if he said he was adding just a pinch -- just the wee-est of pinches -- wouldn't you refer to him in some derogatory term, and tell him that you don't care how much he was adding, that he shouldn't be adding it, period?
The drink makers do argue that with no more than 15 parts per million, the BVO in their drinks is not going to do any harm. I think we should tell them, No, you're not going to add poison to our drinks, period."
(Note: The link for the story on BVO and bromine is at
http://worldtruth.tv/toxic-flame-retardant-detected-in-popular-soda%e2%80%8f/
My sister Mary Stewart, who sells health drinks from Yoli, shared the link on her Facebook page.)
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