Pork in Pepsi and Coke
No more Pepsi? Why do they have to put pork items into soda? What is the world coming to?
An Iraqi ayatollah has issued a religious decree prohibiting Muslims from trafficking in the carbonated beverages Pepsi and Coca Cola.
Ayatollah Sheikh Qasim Attayi, a prominent cleric in Najaf, has called on all Muslims to refrain from consuming, selling or importing the drinks, IRNA reported Monday.
The fatwa was issued after a study confirmed that a key element in Pepsi and Coca Cola is an extract of pig intestines, which is forbidden in Islam.
Delhi University ’s Science and Technology Center in India had earlier demonstrated that the two beverages contain pepsin from pork stomachs.
Pepsin is a digestive protease released by the stomach to change food proteins into peptides.
Abu Zaynab
:O IS this for real?!?!