FROG FOUND IN DIET PEPSI CAN

DISMEMBERED FROG OR OTHER
AMPHIBIAN FOUND IN DIET PEPSI CAN

CNN News - Ready to grill dinner recently for himself and his wife, Fred DeNegri, of Ormond Beach, 55, popped a can of Diet Pepsi to sip while he cooked. But one swig of the cola was enough to put him off his meal. Fred and Amy DeNegri found what was either a frog or a toad disintegrating in a can of Diet Pepsi. "At the time, I asked him and he couldn't even describe [the taste]," said Fred's wife, Amy DeNegri, 54, of Ormond Beach, Fla. "He said, 'I've never tasted anything so awful in my life.'" Dumping the liquid, the couple said, they discovered a small animal macerating in the can. Fred told CNN television that he was taken aback by the "disgusting" blob he was not expecting in his drink, and his wife Amy said that "I would have been throwing up," if she had been the one drinking the soda. DeNegri purchased the drink at a wholesale grocer.

Testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed that these were some dismembered remains of an animal was either a frog or a toad, although the agency found no connection to the Pepsi plant where the soda was bottled. While the DeNegri's amphibian-infused soda sounds like the stuff of urban legends, in reality, such transgressions can occur. And while these incidents may not occur often or pose significant health risks, the ick factor can be through the roof. "It has been verified, and it was indeed a frog," Charles Watson, a spokesman at the US food inspection authority, said from Florida, noting that the animal had been identified by an FDA lab. The FDA has launched an investigation into how the incident occurred.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

In Kali-yuga, the duration of life is shortened not so much because of insufficient food but because of irregular habits. By keeping regular habits and eating simple food, any man can maintain his health.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"El Srimad Bhagavatam - Comentario en Canto 1 - Cap. 1 - Verso 10"

For a human being there are eatables described in Bhagavad-gītā (17.8) as sāttvika - āhāra, or food in the mode of goodness. One should not indulge in eating food in the modes of passion and ignorance. This is called ucitāhāra, or appropriate eating. ... Unless one can become free from the influence of passion and ignorance, he cannot be pacified, and without being pacified, one cannot understand the science of God.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"El Srimad Bhagavatam - Comentario en Canto 4 - Cap. 26 - Verso 11"