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Seems like this study was conducted primarily in Louisiana. "A total of 60 beverage samples purchased from local supermarkets/retail stores in New Orleans, Lou
by somethoughts 3y ago
Seems like this study was conducted primarily in Louisiana. "A total of 60 beverage samples purchased from local supermarkets/retail stores in New Orleans, Louisiana, were refrigerated and homogenized..."
Louisiana is not quite known for its strict environmental standards (including water quality). [1] Presumably most soft drinks and juices are bottled at plants locally using local water supplies as carrying liquids long distances is not economically advantageous.
Its unclear (to me at least) if any of these findings are applicable to soft drinks/juices in other states with stricter water quality standards.
[Edit] Definitely not saying soft drinks/juices aren't toxic, I'm mostly pointing out this is a local/regional study and I feel therefore its implications are therefore local/regional.
I'd prefer:
- more local/regional studies for my location or
- a randomly sampled nation wide study or
- a control group against local/regional bottled water
before I make broad conclusions/make a change in lifestyle.
That said I mostly don't drink soft drinks/bottled water.
[1] https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2022-09-29/louisiana-ranks-4th-in-the-nation-for-industrial-water-pollution-new-report-says https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2022-09-29/louisiana-ranks...
- ars 3y agoYou might not realize this, but it actually rains in Louisiana.
- selimthegrim 3y agoThey also have things like national grocery chains!
- InCityDreams 3y agoAs a Europeon, I'm not sure if your comment would be regarded as a positive, or negative.
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoAs a reminder, Louisiana is a lot wealthier than you think it is: https://fee.org/articles/most-of-europe-is-a-lot-poorer-than-most-of-the-united-states/ https://fee.org/articles/most-of-europe-is-a-lot-poorer-than...
- selimthegrim 3y agoI buy mostly from a local one personally and a little from Fresh Market but in this regard national chains wouldn’t be affected by any putative local water quality problems
- pessimizer 3y agoThat doesn't mean that I won't feel slimy after a shower.
- readthenotes1 3y agoNot much of a comfort if you live in that stretch between baton rouge and New Orleans...
- justin66 3y ago> Presumably most soft drinks and juices are bottled at plants locally using local water supplies as carrying liquids long distances is not economically advantageous. Moving freight in the continental US is cheap. In the US there are nineteen Coca-Cola bottling plants in fourteen states. None of those bottling plants are in Louisiana. Not difficult information to find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_buildings_and_structures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_buildings_an...
- somethoughts 3y agoGood point. That said, it's likely Louisiana distribution is sourced from a bottling plant that's regional and regionally water quality is not great. It's unclear to me that Arkansas and Missouri have superior tap water quality.
- selimthegrim 3y agoBarq’s formerly had bottling in Louisiana (due to a franchising dispute with the MS originators)
- yamtaddle 3y ago> Moving freight in the continental US is cheap. 1) We have one of the best freight river systems in the world: the Mississippi/Missouri. River transport is insanely cheap. 2) Our passenger rail system may be some combo of "worse than many developing-world nations" and "nonexistent", but our freight rail network's quite good. Rail's cheap. 3) We subsidize the everloving shit out of truck transportation, making it really cheap, too.