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Mind Boggling Reasons You Should Never, Ever Drink Colas
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7. Transportation of Soda Leaves a Big Carbon Footprint
There are no exact figures about how much diesel fuel is required to move soda, but that soda has to get from the factory to your store, vending machines, fast food locations, restaurants, schools, and convenience stores somehow and all those trucks, whether they be big or small, burn fuel, which sends untold tons of exhaust into the air.
8. No Matter the Form, the Containers Have Environmental Costs
Even if you buy your soda in a glass bottle, it still takes fuel to transport that bottle to the recycling center, then on to the recycling plant. Aluminum cans are only able to be partially recycled. Also, aluminum is mined from the earth causing horrible environmental consequences. Plastic bottles take huge amounts of oil to produce them, and 80 percent are never recycled, but instead, end up in landfills or swirling in huge mountains of trash out in the Pacific Ocean.
9. Sodas Contain Pesticides
In some countries, sodas actually contain traces of pesticides. Of course, we don’t have this problem in America, (not with sodas anyway) but there is something not right about supporting companies that have no problem producing products that contain deadly pesticides in other countries, simply because they can. There are high levels of toxic pesticides in the sodas produced in India; enough to cause birth defects, disruptions of the immune system, even damage to the central nervous system, according to the Center for Science and the Environment.
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10. Sodas Are No Longer Cool
OK, so there is no evidence to back this up, but look around you. More and more you see people drinking water, green tea, coffee, kombucha, and probiotic drinks. This says “I care about my health,” and that is definitely cool.
However, if you would like to know what to do with that liter bottle of soda sitting in your kitchen, it actually does have some pretty good uses. Use that soda to:
- Remove grease stains from clothes
- Remove burned on food from pots and pans
- Kills snails and slugs in the garden
- Cleans metal coins
- Removes rust
- Cleans car battery terminals
- Cleans rust stains from swimming pools
- Cleans toilets
- Removes stains from carpets
When you consider all the things that colas can clean, would you ever dream of putting this stuff in your body?! We hope not!
Marvin Zinn
May 25, 2015 at 11:28 am
I remember trying these “cola” poisons 60 years ago. I thought they were terrible and never drank a drop since then.