LET THEM DRINK CAKE
NOVEMBER 19, 2011. The European Union has just declared it is illegal to claim that drinking water can prevent dehydration.
Any seller of bottled water who does claim it can face a two-year jail sentence.
It appears that dehydration is now considered a clinical condition, which means that doctors and drug companies will take over the right to “treat it.”
These Brussels bureaucrats, who took it upon themselves to declare the allowable degree-of-bend for bananas and cucumbers sold in Europe (true)—before they were laughed out of court—should face the same ridicule now about water.
Better yet, people should start saying Brussels sprouts and chocolate are poisons no human should ingest, for fear of keeling over and dying.
The EU has been progressively tightening the noose when it comes to non-medical health claims for products. This, of course, is to protect drug companies against competition.
As I’ve written before, the basic question here is freedom. I frankly don’t care what health claims are made for any product under the sun. There are already laws on the books that allow prosecution of people who sell physically harmful substances—like Vioxx, for example, or any other kind of snake oil, natural or synthetic. Those laws are sufficient. As for judging the efficacy of a drug or herb, I’ll take responsibility for that. And so should everyone else.
If I think drinking water helps hydrate the body, I’ll continue to think that, no matter what any government body says.
To put it politely, fuck the EU.
Perhaps a pilot study is in order. Take 50 of these assholes and divide them up into two groups. Put both groups in a chamber that registers humidity of zero for six days, without liquids of any kind, and then, after letting them out, give half of them H2O and the other half hard stale cake. See which group fares better. When the obvious results come in, decide why water made a positive difference.
“Well, you see, it wasn’t hydration. It was waterization, which is distinctly different.”
Jon Rappoport