[beeforpork]

Title is misleading: it's lead chromate (that producers mix into turmeric power) that does the killing, not turmeric.

[dang]

Ok, we've adulterated the title above.

[willwinger]

Very well identified, the cropping up of such an article should not be taken at face value.

Consider such scenarios too which impact profit of specific industries namely Pharma

1. Demand for curcumin has greatly increased leading to an inflation of its market price in recent years

2. Turmeric is an age old go to antiseptic and antibiotic. During Covid it was very common for Indian families to consume turmeric flavored milk as a way of keeping the virus out.

Almost all health, medicinal, sensational articles irrespective of their source publication have to be put under the critical lens of global corporate profit motive

Am I saying there is no adulteration, am not. Just that the publishing intent is no saint either.

[thaumasiotes]

> the cropping up of such an article should not be taken at face value.

I assume the article appeared because recently the government of Bangladesh and/or India declared a big political victory over turmeric adulteration. Where there are ten articles, it's not a big surprise that there are 11 articles.

[uwagar]

i've always felt economist is always anti-asian, particularly anti-indian.

[uptownfunk]

Yes I’ve seen the same in the last several years and hence why I stopped reading them

[jjtheblunt]

they're also very britain can tell the US how to run the US better than the US can, since time began, and it's kind of boring.

[uwagar]

they also pro anglo saxon style meat and potatoe eating. thats why the beef about turmeric.

[botanical]

They are more pro-West even if it means anti-everyone else; and even if it means spouting pro-war rhetoric. To me, they are a western propaganda mouthpiece.