LankaBuzz

Ok, I was just wondering, going through some sites, and getting mails about people saying to boycott Budda Bar and about them making products with the Buddha’s image on it. Well I was wondering what if we changed the image of that religious icon ?

Was just checking some of those sites, for those locations and similar ones …

http://www.buddha-bar.com/ … now when you get into this site, you see the shape of the Buddha in the back ground and in front women dancing around. What the hell. Over here, some of my friends parents won’t let their daughters go to temple in jeans or skirts as it’s not respectful and only allow to go in a long dress. Well of course we do have the modern fools who go in jeans but forget that. Now let’s say I replaced the Buddha with a Christian, Hindu or Muslim icon ? What would be the reaction ? The place will probably be burnt down and a lot of people will have a lot to say. Yes ???

Take a look at this site http://www.gobuddha.net/index.php?load=drinks … ok fine, the Buddha image with booze. Fine supports of this would probably say, at least the image is not on the bottles or the glasses they drink from.

Now .. this .. http://www.gobuddha.net/photoindex.php … ok let’s replace the Buddha in this place with Jesus. Now would you like this ? How would you feel ? All these slutty women walking around, making out in front, behind and under the statues, drinking, throwing up, it’s just a bunch of bad thoughts and happening. Now would you like that ? If I walked into a place like this with Buddha statues or Christ Statues, I would feel embarrassed and quite awkward. Why, as I would be insulting someone else’s faith or belief. Wouldn’t you agree ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_Bar

Well I comment much as I haven’t been to one of these places, but I would assume the name would be an insult. Now in Paris they have a few, even the UAE. Would anyone dare to open up a place with a name like this in one of those countries with their popular faiths ? Don’t think so.

http://tricycleblog.blogspot.com/2004/08/buddha-bar-offensive-or-innocuous.html

Anyways this issue has been there for some time and it’s old news but I just wanted to voice my thoughts. Someone opening or trying to open a bar with some other popular religion icon will for sure ban things of this nature in most countries. How about opening one in Sri Lanka, who is the icon we are going to use ? Will we survive to lay the first brick ? I think not !!!!

I apologize if I misused the names of other faiths, but this was to show how you would feel if your icon was used in similar instances. Didn’t feel too good did it ?

Rohitha

I just read this, and made me wonder if what we are drinking also contains such poisons. If this is happening in India, I would wonder about our operations .

Ok lets assume coke and pepsi are ok, what about all these new small companies opening up ? Are they keeping with the standards ?

Who will check on this for the consumer ?

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Pesticides still found in Coke, Pepsi: Indian study
Wed Aug 2, 2006

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An environmental group said on Wednesday bottles of Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. soft drinks in India still contained traces of pesticide, highlighting weak food safety laws in the country.

“If soft drinks are the choice of millions, the least that can be done is that these drinks are regulated,” said Sunita Narain, director of the Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment (CSE), at a news conference.

A 2003 study by CSE briefly dented the companies’ sales when it said it found levels of pesticide in the companies’ soft drinks in excess of international standards.

That study was endorsed by India’s parliament though the soft drink majors said at the time the drinks were safe to consume and they repeated their stand on Wednesday.

But despite government vows of introducing legal limits for toxins in soft drinks, not enough had been done since 2003, CSE said.

The group called upon consumers to avoid drinking Coke and Pepsi and other soft drink brands produced by the two U.S. firms until they cleaned up the product.

The Indian Soft Drink Manufacturers Association, of which PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are members, said the soft drinks were safe to consume.

“The soft drinks manufactured in India comply with stringent international norms and all applicable national regulations,” the industry body said in a statement.

The CSE said that pesticides are also present in other foods and drinks routinely consumed by Indians.

The new study found three to five different pesticides in 57 samples of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo drinks produced in 12 Indian states, CSE said.

The average amount of pesticide residues found in the samples was 11.85 parts per billion (ppb), 24 times higher than the permitted limit of 0.5 ppb recently drafted — but not yet implemented– by the Bureau of Indian Standards, a government agency that sets safety and hygiene standards for commercial products.

In some cases, the levels were up to 200 times the limit.

The study in 2003 found pesticide residues on average 34 times higher than the 0.5ppb limit.

Officials at the Ministry of Health were unavailable for comment on the CSE report

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