Pesticides Cola or Fertilizer Milk

As Indian health conscious and fitness enthusiasts, we urban Indians, have been given a very tough choice to make.
Our tough talking Agriculture Minister, who also doubles as the Cricket Minister, tells us that in our infancy, we really have no choice. While the Indian doctors may keep telling young mothers, that mother's milk is best for a new born child, our Cricket Minister is assuring us that as an Indian citizen, whose cricket team is in good hands and well looked after, our new born babies have the unique luxury of spiced mother's milk.
Spiced mother's milk is of course a euphemism for milk, that contains acceptable pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer residues, as per government acceptability limits.
So bottle up, cheer up, and have your spiced milk straight from the nipples.

That an Indian Agriculture Minister, can be so brazen, about defending acceptable pesticdes levels, is no doubt, a daily ocurrence for us Indians. Maybe we have been too well trained to accept marketing garbage, dressed up as official and scientific accounts and cannot distinguish between lobbying and governmental responsibilities.

Talking of a common Indian mentality, the Indian philosopher, Dharampal, mentioned that "Our people got stuck because, I think, we are too literal. Whether it is Vivekananda or Mahatma Gandhi or someone else, we seem to take them too literally; something has happened to us. Maybe this is a much older trait. It may be that because of Vasco da Gama, and the British, and partly the Islamic period, - all this could have made a contribution to the degradation, the loss of faith, the loss of courage."

This is a sorry state of affairs, that an Agriculture Minister, who has not even bothered to address the problems of Vidarbha farmers of his own home state, and adopt long term policies for improving the state of Indian farmers, a task entrusted to him in good faith, has chosen to adopt the mantle of justifying spiced milk being fed to Indian babies who will be the generation of tomorrow.

This is the face of Indian politics, that the Indian farmer and Indian consumer is today faced with and must find ways to confront, if he is to find a path other than that of collective mass suicides or mass migrations.
Moreover, how can such a minister be ever assumed to be capable, of putting in place food quality inspection regime ? In fact he may even be happier dismantling all third party attempts at food quality monitoring that reports pesticide contamination in edible foods.