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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
Vernono O wrote:
"Jan Drew" wrote in message . net... wrote in message ... On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:51:19 GMT, "Jan Drew" wrote: http://www.newstarget.com/z021962.html NewsTarget.com printable article Originally published August 2 2007 Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water by Mike Adams It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue label showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water, perfect taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water, and many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is sourced from mountain spring water. In reality, Aquafina comes from tap water. Yes, the same water you get when you turn on your kitchen faucet. Of course, Aquafina is filtered, purified Hopefully removing chlorine and flouride, pesticides and fertilizers... and perhaps even enhanced with trace amounts of added minerals, but it's certainly not mountain spring water. [...] Yeahbut... isn't this true of all bottled water not labelled "spring"? Everything's a marketing gimmick, why pick on Pepsi? The Dasani blue bottles go much further, if you want to talk marketing. No one is picking on Pepsie. It is in the news. "Mountain spring water" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either. Natural water supply - spring or well - can contain dangerous amounts of some minerals. Look at the flouride poisoning they're finding in India. Excess iron can be a problem, and not just because of rust stains on clothing; natural phosporous and sulfur make the water dangerous in some areas. Furthermore, "spring" implies surface waters, with dangers of contamination from fertilizers, pesticides, various components of air pollution. And even if it's pristine as far as the modern world is concerned, have all those touting spring water considered deer (frog, snake, bird, bug...) dung? Rotten leaves? Algae? How many of those complaining about water not being spring water have ever visited an actual living spring? Yes, I'm being a bit facetious. It just goes to show that many who complain about the misleading trigger terms used by others should probably look at their own. In that vein, I've purposely stopped my quote before the inflammatory "...the same stuff that fills your toilet bowl when you flush." I'm quite sure Pepsi isn't sucking its water out of toilets, and I find intentional use of such implications to be below low, negating every other possibly beneficial thing the writer might have had to say. It makes the whole article just so much more junk written by another loon, as far as I'm concerned. IMO all that doesn't matter much if the end product is polluted by plastic bottles. And it doesn't take a scientist, inflammatory "consumer advocate", or maniacal label reader to see and avoid that danger. It's not only the bottles, it is the tap water being sold as spring. That is dishonest. Both the bottles and the water are polluted. This bottled water issue brings to light the apparent deceptive practices of some of the largest suppliers of bottled water products. By avoiding the honest labeling of the source of their water while relying on snow-capped mountain imagery, these companies quietly mislead consumers into thinking their water products are from a pristine, natural source such as a mountain spring. Pristine? ha ha ha ha ha ah Many years ago...like 1970, while driving through western Colorado, I happenedup a roadside rest area in what is now I-70. There was a rock outcropping with a small fountain of water coming out of a crack in the rocks. The water fountain was only two or three inches high. The State of Colorado maintained the area and had a sign that said that the ater was ground filtered and came directly from glacier/snow melt. The water was quite good |
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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
Coleah wrote:
Plastic bottles aren't a particular scare for me. Plastic bottles are a real environmental issue. They add a lot of chemical to the waste stream. They also are found way out to sea. Two weeks ago I was 60 miles off the south shore of LI and there was an area of garbage floating by...with seven or eight bottled water bottles in the mix. |
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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
Vernono O wrote:
All "natural" water has urine, feces and dead bugs and animals in it. SO? That is called "nutrition" to some. |
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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
"Mark Probert" wrote in message news:OC8wi.1580$vC4.193@trndny01... Vernono O wrote: "Jan Drew" wrote in message . net... wrote in message ... On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:51:19 GMT, "Jan Drew" wrote: http://www.newstarget.com/z021962.html NewsTarget.com printable article Originally published August 2 2007 Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water by Mike Adams It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue label showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water, perfect taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water, and many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is sourced from mountain spring water. In reality, Aquafina comes from tap water. Yes, the same water you get when you turn on your kitchen faucet. Of course, Aquafina is filtered, purified Hopefully removing chlorine and flouride, pesticides and fertilizers... and perhaps even enhanced with trace amounts of added minerals, but it's certainly not mountain spring water. [...] Yeahbut... isn't this true of all bottled water not labelled "spring"? Everything's a marketing gimmick, why pick on Pepsi? The Dasani blue bottles go much further, if you want to talk marketing. No one is picking on Pepsie. It is in the news. "Mountain spring water" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either. Natural water supply - spring or well - can contain dangerous amounts of some minerals. Look at the flouride poisoning they're finding in India. Excess iron can be a problem, and not just because of rust stains on clothing; natural phosporous and sulfur make the water dangerous in some areas. Furthermore, "spring" implies surface waters, with dangers of contamination from fertilizers, pesticides, various components of air pollution. And even if it's pristine as far as the modern world is concerned, have all those touting spring water considered deer (frog, snake, bird, bug...) dung? Rotten leaves? Algae? How many of those complaining about water not being spring water have ever visited an actual living spring? Yes, I'm being a bit facetious. It just goes to show that many who complain about the misleading trigger terms used by others should probably look at their own. In that vein, I've purposely stopped my quote before the inflammatory "...the same stuff that fills your toilet bowl when you flush." I'm quite sure Pepsi isn't sucking its water out of toilets, and I find intentional use of such implications to be below low, negating every other possibly beneficial thing the writer might have had to say. It makes the whole article just so much more junk written by another loon, as far as I'm concerned. IMO all that doesn't matter much if the end product is polluted by plastic bottles. And it doesn't take a scientist, inflammatory "consumer advocate", or maniacal label reader to see and avoid that danger. It's not only the bottles, it is the tap water being sold as spring. That is dishonest. Both the bottles and the water are polluted. This bottled water issue brings to light the apparent deceptive practices of some of the largest suppliers of bottled water products. By avoiding the honest labeling of the source of their water while relying on snow-capped mountain imagery, these companies quietly mislead consumers into thinking their water products are from a pristine, natural source such as a mountain spring. Pristine? ha ha ha ha ha ah Many years ago...like 1970, while driving through western Colorado, I happenedup a roadside rest area in what is now I-70. There was a rock outcropping with a small fountain of water coming out of a crack in the rocks. The water fountain was only two or three inches high. The State of Colorado maintained the area and had a sign that said that the ater was ground filtered and came directly from glacier/snow melt. The water was quite good Yes there are places like that and the water often tastes quit good. Pure water has almost no taste. Melted snow in the mountains and melted snow in a big city taste quite different. |
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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
"Mark Probert" wrote in message news:0H8wi.1582$vC4.1387@trndny01... Vernono O wrote: All "natural" water has urine, feces and dead bugs and animals in it. SO? That is called "nutrition" to some. And to some it could be nutrition. Interestingly the purest (most germ free) water in the human body is urine. It is "safer" than some city water. Note: Not a promotion to become Hindu. The most contaminated is saliva. |
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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
"Mark Probert" wrote in message news:WF8wi.1581$vC4.806@trndny01... Coleah wrote: Plastic bottles aren't a particular scare for me. Plastic bottles are a real environmental issue. VERY, VERY, VERY much so. They add a lot of chemical to the waste stream. They also are found way out to sea. Two weeks ago I was 60 miles off the south shore of LI and there was an area of garbage floating by...with seven or eight bottled water bottles in the mix. |
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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
Vernono O wrote:
"Mark Probert" wrote in message news:OC8wi.1580$vC4.193@trndny01... Vernono O wrote: "Jan Drew" wrote in message . net... wrote in message ... On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:51:19 GMT, "Jan Drew" wrote: http://www.newstarget.com/z021962.html NewsTarget.com printable article Originally published August 2 2007 Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water by Mike Adams It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue label showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water, perfect taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water, and many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is sourced from mountain spring water. In reality, Aquafina comes from tap water. Yes, the same water you get when you turn on your kitchen faucet. Of course, Aquafina is filtered, purified Hopefully removing chlorine and flouride, pesticides and fertilizers... and perhaps even enhanced with trace amounts of added minerals, but it's certainly not mountain spring water. [...] Yeahbut... isn't this true of all bottled water not labelled "spring"? Everything's a marketing gimmick, why pick on Pepsi? The Dasani blue bottles go much further, if you want to talk marketing. No one is picking on Pepsie. It is in the news. "Mountain spring water" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either. Natural water supply - spring or well - can contain dangerous amounts of some minerals. Look at the flouride poisoning they're finding in India. Excess iron can be a problem, and not just because of rust stains on clothing; natural phosporous and sulfur make the water dangerous in some areas. Furthermore, "spring" implies surface waters, with dangers of contamination from fertilizers, pesticides, various components of air pollution. And even if it's pristine as far as the modern world is concerned, have all those touting spring water considered deer (frog, snake, bird, bug...) dung? Rotten leaves? Algae? How many of those complaining about water not being spring water have ever visited an actual living spring? Yes, I'm being a bit facetious. It just goes to show that many who complain about the misleading trigger terms used by others should probably look at their own. In that vein, I've purposely stopped my quote before the inflammatory "...the same stuff that fills your toilet bowl when you flush." I'm quite sure Pepsi isn't sucking its water out of toilets, and I find intentional use of such implications to be below low, negating every other possibly beneficial thing the writer might have had to say. It makes the whole article just so much more junk written by another loon, as far as I'm concerned. IMO all that doesn't matter much if the end product is polluted by plastic bottles. And it doesn't take a scientist, inflammatory "consumer advocate", or maniacal label reader to see and avoid that danger. It's not only the bottles, it is the tap water being sold as spring. That is dishonest. Both the bottles and the water are polluted. This bottled water issue brings to light the apparent deceptive practices of some of the largest suppliers of bottled water products. By avoiding the honest labeling of the source of their water while relying on snow-capped mountain imagery, these companies quietly mislead consumers into thinking their water products are from a pristine, natural source such as a mountain spring. Pristine? ha ha ha ha ha ah Many years ago...like 1970, while driving through western Colorado, I happenedup a roadside rest area in what is now I-70. There was a rock outcropping with a small fountain of water coming out of a crack in the rocks. The water fountain was only two or three inches high. The State of Colorado maintained the area and had a sign that said that the ater was ground filtered and came directly from glacier/snow melt. The water was quite good Yes there are places like that and the water often tastes quit good. Pure water has almost no taste. Melted snow in the mountains and melted snow in a big city taste quite different. Do not eat yellow snow. |
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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
On Aug 13, 5:53 am, Coleah wrote:
On Aug 12, 10:17 am, wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:51:19 GMT, "Jan Drew" wrote: http://www.newstarget.com/z021962.html NewsTarget.com printable article Originally published August 2 2007 Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water by Mike Adams It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue label showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water, perfect taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water, and many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is sourced from mountain spring water. In reality, Aquafina comes from tap water. Yes, the same water you get when you turn on your kitchen faucet. Of course, Aquafina is filtered, purified Hopefully removing chlorine and flouride, pesticides and fertilizers... and perhaps even enhanced with trace amounts of added minerals, but it's certainly not mountain spring water. [...] Yeahbut... isn't this true of all bottled water not labelled "spring"? Everything's a marketing gimmick, why pick on Pepsi? The Dasani blue bottles go much further, if you want to talk marketing. "Mountain spring water" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either. Natural water supply - spring or well - can contain dangerous amounts of some minerals. Look at the flouride poisoning they're finding in India. Excess iron can be a problem, and not just because of rust stains on clothing; natural phosporous and sulfur make the water dangerous in some areas. Furthermore, "spring" implies surface waters, with dangers of contamination from fertilizers, pesticides, various components of air pollution. And even if it's pristine as far as the modern world is concerned, have all those touting spring water considered deer (frog, snake, bird, bug...) dung? Rotten leaves? Algae? How many of those complaining about water not being spring water have ever visited an actual living spring? Yes, I'm being a bit facetious. It just goes to show that many who complain about the misleading trigger terms used by others should probably look at their own. In that vein, I've purposely stopped my quote before the inflammatory "...the same stuff that fills your toilet bowl when you flush." I'm quite sure Pepsi isn't sucking its water out of toilets, and I find intentional use of such implications to be below low, negating every other possibly beneficial thing the writer might have had to say. It makes the whole article just so much more junk written by another loon, as far as I'm concerned. IMO all that doesn't matter much if the end product is polluted by plastic bottles. And it doesn't take a scientist, inflammatory "consumer advocate", or maniacal label reader to see and avoid that danger. -- It's a Consumer Beware world, baby. ALL the way around. I don't drink bottled water so I don't know if Aquafina states on the label that the water actually 'comes from a spring' or if it is just the flowery advertizing wording (like 'heavenly chocolate', etc). Their commercials state that their water goes through 2 purifications and 5 filtering processes. Plastic bottles aren't a particular scare for me. I recall encountering a plastic/water issue in the early 80's while visiting a historic site in Korea. They had a continuously running 'fountain' of unknown origin, sitting out in the middle of no where. It had a plastic measuring cup attached to a string, for visitors to drink from. After observing the line of people all drinking from the same cup I wondered about germs, and wasn't even bothered by plastic issues. The people were healthy and didn't have a care. I think sometimes people worry in excess, about too many issues, to really enjoy the ride through life. As the saying goes, "You get what you resist."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I hate to admit it, but I've been a bottled water person for quite awhile. I knew fairly early on, that most of the water was not really spring water, or glacier water. And was mainly filtered tap water. At home, I use one of those little pitchers that has the filter in it, using my regular tap water. However, when I'm out and about, I use my favorite fruit flavored waters (Fruit 2-O). I do it primarily to keep from carbonated drinking soft drinks. Lately, I have began just refilling my empty water bottle, with the water from my pitcher with filter, and squeezing a little lemon into it. I swim several times a week, and I use the bottled water for those sessions. To me, the true value of bottled water has been to divert a person from drinking soft drinks, which are really hard on the body! I'm beginning to rely more on my pitcher with filter as the source of most of my water, and to purchase many fewer actual bottles of water from the market. I'm conscious of the land fill issues, all those plastic bottles are causing. |
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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
On Aug 13, 9:01 pm, Mark Probert wrote:
Do not eat yellow snow.- Mark - Wasn't you, who said that urine was more pure than saliva;-) |
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Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
Myrl wrote:
On Aug 13, 9:01 pm, Mark Probert wrote: Do not eat yellow snow.- Mark - Wasn't you, who said that urine was more pure than saliva;-) Nope. Vernon |
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