PepsiCo is one of the biggest brands in the
market, not only for its popular drink, but also for its range of products,
including potato chips and Gatorade.
Not long ago started a campaign on the
website change.org which was asked to eliminate in the ingredients of Gatorade,
the BVO Chemical, containing bromine and is "necessary" to maintain
uniform citrus flavor in the drink.
“The ingredient, brominated vegetable oil is a
chemical containing bromine, which also is on fire retardants.
Small
amounts of BVO are legally used in some citrus flavored beverages in the United
States to maintain flavor evenly distributed.
Molly
Carter, spokeswoman for Gatorade, said that the versions of those drinks without
BVO will be sold in the U.S. in the coming months. [...]
According
to the activist group for food security "Center for Science in the Public
Interest", the BVO is a "food additive poorly analyzed and possibly
dangerous and there is no reason to use it in Gatorade or other drinks."
Even knowing the chemical additives used in
many drinks, strong advertising system prevents that the studies on the effects on the
human body of these chemicals make any kind of change in the economic behavior of these companies.
Knowing that the economic process
dehumanizes, and at the same time firms care little about what we consume (it's
still up to us if we consume a product or not), is an aspect of the economy
that I dislike.
I'm one more to the expectation of a change
in the mentality of the consumer and the producer.