India to launch cow urine as soft drink... How disgusting it is, if true... >Here is to your health...! > > > > India to launch cow urine as soft drink (no, we're not taking the p***) > > (Sasa Kralj/AP) > > Welcome to your new vending machine... > > Jeremy Page, Delhi > > Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India's > Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink > made from cow urine. > > The bovine brew is in the final stages of development by the Cow > Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), > India's biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group, according to the > man who makes it. > > Om Prakash, the head of the department, said the drink called "gau > jal", or "cow water" in Sanskrit was undergoing laboratory tests and > would be launched "very soon, maybe by the end of this year". > "Don't worry, it won't smell like urine and will be tasty too," he > told The Times from his headquarters in Hardwar, one of four holy > cities on the River Ganges. "Its USP will be that it's going to be > very healthy. It won't be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid > of any toxins." > > The drink is the latest attempt by the RSS which was founded in 1925 > and now claims eight million members to cleanse India of foreign > influence and promote its ideology of Hindutva, or Hindu-ness. > Hindus revere cows and slaughtering them is illegal in most of India. > Cow dung is traditionally used as a fuel and disinfectant in villages, > while cow urine and dung are often consumed in rituals to "purify" > those on the bottom rungs of the Hindu caste system. > > In 2001, the RSS and its offshoots which include the opposition > Bharatiya Janata Party began promoting cow urine as a cure for > ailments ranging from liver disease to obesity and even cancer. > The movement has often been accused of using more violent methods, > such as killing 67 Christians in the eastern state of Orissa last > year, and assaulting women in a pub in Mangalore last month. It also > has a history of targeting foreign business in India, as in 1994, when > it organised a nationwide boycott of multinational consumer goods, > including Pepsi and Coca Cola. > > The cola brands are popular in India, now one of their biggest > markets, but have struggled in recent years to shake off allegations, > which they deny, that they contain dangerous levels of pesticide. > Mr Prakash said his drink, by contrast, was made mainly of cow urine, > mixed with a few medicinal and ayurvedic herbs. He said it would be > "cheap", but declined to give further details about its price or > ingredients until it was officially launched. > > He insisted, however, that it would be able to compete with the > American cola brands, even with their enormous advertising budgets. > "We're going to give them good competition as our drink is good for > mankind," he said. "We may also think of exporting it." > |
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