Telegraph- Coffee is dangerous for you, warns EU
Brussels bureaucrats said there was scientific evidence to back up claims that “caffeine is harmful to humans if swallowed”.
Mr Vistisen added: “A few years ago, the EU wished to ban cinnamon on Danish pastries and the bakers union had to wrangle a get-out clause.
Coffee is dangerous….
If you drink several whole pots of it in one sitting.
Yes. And if you consume in one sitting 3 dozen Danish pastries containing cinnamon. Cinnamon has many healthful properties. You can even buy it in capsule form as a supplement. Coffee does too. For one, it’s a natural bronchodilator. If you’re having an asthma attack and have no medication, strong black coffee could save you. These people are totalitarian idiots
If coffee’s going to kill me, I don’t care.
Somewhat along the same lines, Mark Twain is reputed to have said, “If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go”. My kind of guy!
Comedian George Carlin reading the news: “Scientists revealed that saliva causes stomach cancer if swallowed in small quantities over a long period of time”.
Too much water will kill you too!
Reminds me of a joke concerning an Irishman who fell into a vat of whiskey. Refused offers of help!
H2O is much more that a potential killer:
Water is also known as dihydrogen monoxide or hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
contributes to the “greenhouse effect”.
may cause severe burns.
contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
as an industrial solvent and coolant.
in nuclear power plants.
in the production of styrofoam.
as a fire retardant,
in the distribution of pesticides..
as an additive in certain “junk-foods” and other food products.
Clear proof that the EU has too much time on their hands or are so incompetent that they are dithering over inconsequential details because they don’t know how to deal with the real problems
They actually have restrictions on the size of bananas!
The minimum size (with tolerances and exceptions) is a length of 14 cm and a thickness (grade) of 2.7 cm. It specifies minimum standards for specific quality classifications of bananas (Extra, Class I, Class II). Only Extra bananas have to comply fully with the shape specifications.
You crazy Eurocrats, I fart in your general direction. That oughta fix ’em.
Yes … this coffee enthusiast is deeply offended by this EU stupidity. Perhaps these low energy people (to quote MY President) are offended by anyone with a little get-up-and-go? But what disturbs me even more is that this is yet another assault by the EU Global Warming Communists on modern agriculture. This attack on caffeine being used as an insecticide follows the junk science report claiming RoundUp herbicide causes cancer … following the claim that nitrogen is destroying the pristine countryside.
The EU appears BENT on creating a worldwide (or at least European) famine. Then … the communists can determine who gets fed based on some DEI rubric … right?
I was well aware that caffeine was harmful if swallowed. That’s why I take my morning liter of coffee intravenously.
I find that rectal makes a great end to my day.
Coffee can be your best friend or your worst enema.
Is this the butt of a joke?
Bureaucrats trying to perfect society. This nonsense is why Brexit happened.
Coffee cultivation is what they are going after, it’s bad for the environment and it has humanitarian issues as well, won’t anyone think of poor Juan Valdez and his exploited donkey?!
Jesus Christ, this world is getting unbearable!
I only drink: shade-grown, free-trade, locally-sourced, LGBTQueer-friendly, female-cultivated, coffee beans. I feeeeeel good about myself.
I’m reasonably sure that my coffee beans are LGBTQueer-friendly. I’ve certainly never seen them display any hostility.
Do a search on when the EU tried to tell the Italians that they’d been cooking pizza wrong for 1,000 years and their method was a fire hazard.
That’s funny.
Coffee was BAD for a long, long time.
Then it was GOOD.
I read an article a few months ago that not only supported the case for GOOD but actually advised on the optimum number of cups per day. THREE.
I chuckled because that has been my daily dose for years.
2 in the early-mid a.m. and 1 right after lunch.
DARK Italian roast brewed in a cheap manual quasi Americano style Aeropress. My wife calls me the king of coffee.
I may have read the same one – 3 a day keeps dementia away
Not to argue with your wife … but I AM the King of coffee. Major Dickason’s Peet’s Coffee blend (Garuda blend when I want to afford it), whole bean, fresh ground in my Italian burr grinder, drip brewed in my No.6 melita drip brewer, unbleached paper filters, direct into my air pot. Yes, by the afternoon I have polished off all 12 cups in the airpot. It is my Zen ritual every morning. And I use the drip time to clean the kitty litter box … yes, thoroughly washing hands thereafter.
The KICK I get after the first half cup gives me the mental acuity to confront the OUTRAGEOUS nonsense I see posted on SDA every morning.
Read the same thing – and went out and bought bigger cups
Every consumable has what is known as an LD50. That is the lethal dose consumed where 50% of the people die.
So I can still bathe in it. Awesome.
European bureaucrats are bad for you. Not as much if you eat them.
Bureaucrats from the EU are more likely to kill you than coffee ever will.
If the Eurofags stop drinking it, maybe the price will drop.
That’s doubleplus good.
I heard being born will eventually lead to your death, sometime in the future…ok, I need another big fat money grant to continue my research