Heard Sunita Narain on TV today… From what I understood before my patience ran out and I switched the channel that she is raking a campaign to regulate the colas and mineral water. The anchor asked her ( I think it was a viewer question, for we all know the IQ levels of the anchors) if we weren’t making too big a deal about concentrating on colas and mineral water when there were statistics to show that there were more toxins in the rice we eat than anywhere else in the world?
Now, I can assure you, you won’t be able to guess the answer to this one…
What I am writing here is not verbatim, but the essence as I understood…
It does not matter, the toxins in rice, because we are getting nutrition along with the poison. As long as the level of toxins is what our body can accept it’s OK. She almost justified the toxins.
How did we arrive at that logic, if it can be called logic? Why is it that every cause we take up and support is the one which will attract the most attention and the one which will lead to the minimum change, if any at all?
Since when did the “collective good” become the “selective good”?
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