Coca-Cola and Pepsi Change Recipe to Avoid saying their Drink Causes Cancer

[BehattedWanderer]

There's a whole bevy of tasteless jokes I want to make...but I can't decide which to go with. I suppose next they'll be telling us that receiving a paycheck gets us a fresh dose of the tumours, huh?

Spoiler: Obligatory Russell Howard song

Since when did health warnings stop people from doing things anyway?

I read it in the Daily Mail...

(points for reference)

OT: Ironically, the only thing that doesn't give cancer is stupidity. Sad, I know.

I hear they're working on that.

 

[Yopaz]

Daily Mail much?

But what evidence do they have that is clear and obvious that it causes cancer?

Tests with extremely high concentrations on rats. The kind of concentrations we take in from drinking it have not been proven harmful yet.

Don't believe anything you read is my less frequently used motto.

This is why;

Scaremongering newspapers will try anything to get you... well scared!

Also this is a link with everything the Daily Mail (UK "news"paper) has said will give you cancer. Feel free to read it and laugh.
http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/

Since when is the state of California a scaremongering newspaper? They are the ones who cause the recipe to change because they demand to make Coca-cola to label it as a possible carcinogen. For the love of god, read the article before posting about the stupidity of the news and people reading the news.

 

[Something Amyss]

Oh man, I need to cut back to only 900 cans. Just until the new formula hits.

Ah, it seems you're out of luck there:

"CLARIFICATION: This story was changed on 10 March to make it clear that it was a manufacturing process that had changed, not the recipe of the drinks themselves."

So no need for that self-restraint! Cheers!

Woohoo! I'm drinking 1100 can just to celebrate!

 

[Something Amyss]

I wonder if all this stuff actually does give you cancer..

Maybe it's just people doing the obvious stuff such as smoking etc and realizing they have cancer while shaving or repeatedly running into desk chairs.

I doubt the lab rats they tested it on were smoking or talking on cell phones on the sly.

Still, they tested in ridiculous concentrations compared to what is actually consumed, so it begs the question as to whether or not it actually causes cancer in meaningful doses a real person might be likely to consume. As an example, the levels you would have to drink for the purposes of this study would be the aforementioned 1000 cans of Coke/Pepsi. I mean, I loves me some Cola, but that's a little more than I could drink on a regular basis.

 

[TimeLord]

Since when is the state of California a scaremongering newspaper? They are the ones who cause the recipe to change because they demand to make Coca-cola to label it as a possible carcinogen. For the love of god, read the article before posting about the stupidity of the news and people reading the news.

My point was that when a tabloid that is distributed in its millions every day is telling you that going to the toilet at night can give you cancer then whether it's true or not that drinking coca cola gives you cancer then you probably shouldn't believe it.

Especially if such things come from the government
/tin foil hat

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Meh, cancer warnings like this have become so ubiquitous that I long ago stopped taking them seriously.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Who cares, Medical Marijuana.

 

[Yopaz]

Since when is the state of California a scaremongering newspaper? They are the ones who cause the recipe to change because they demand to make Coca-cola to label it as a possible carcinogen. For the love of god, read the article before posting about the stupidity of the news and people reading the news.

My point was that when a tabloid that is distributed in its millions every day is telling you that going to the toilet at night can give you cancer then whether it's true or not that drinking coca cola gives you cancer then you probably shouldn't believe it.

Especially if such things come from the government
/tin foil hat[/quote¨]

Still that doesn't make the state of California a scaremongering newspaper. This has also been confirmed with tests. Although if you're paranoid enough then we can write of all research ever made as a government conspiracy.

 

[Yopaz]

Since when is the state of California a scaremongering newspaper? They are the ones who cause the recipe to change because they demand to make Coca-cola to label it as a possible carcinogen. For the love of god, read the article before posting about the stupidity of the news and people reading the news.

My point was that when a tabloid that is distributed in its millions every day is telling you that going to the toilet at night can give you cancer then whether it's true or not that drinking coca cola gives you cancer then you probably shouldn't believe it.

Especially if such things come from the government
/tin foil hat

Still that doesn't make the state of California a scaremongering newspaper. This has also been confirmed with tests. Although if you're paranoid enough then we can write of all research ever made as a government conspiracy.

 

[Sansha]

Or, we could just roll a dice, at this point, and let that decide if we get cancer or not, judging by all the s#$t that's supposed to give us cancer. It's getting ridiculous.

That's more or less how it works from what I can tell. Some people get cancer, some people win the lottery.

 

[RagTagBand]

guess what, the suns rays gives us cancer, fuck myou sun, we should blow it up.

Scientists agree that the sun is one of the largest causers of skin cancer known to man, would you let a MURDERER shine on your children? I don't think so.

Vote Moon in 2012.

 

[Alphavillain]

I'm still waiting for them to discover the cancer of cancer. On topic, I'm more liable to believe in the harmful properties of a sweet, fizzy drink than most other things -but causing cancer is the least of them.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

WARNING:

You're going to die. You won't know where, when or even how. But you're going to.

Oh, and prolonged living leads to death.