Coffee Ban Fears as EU Calls Caffeinated Drink “Harmful”
Coffee is “harmful” to humans, the European Union has said in a regulation banning the use of caffeine as a pesticide, prompting fears of a coffee ban. The Telegraph has the story.
Brussels bureaucrats said there was scientific evidence to back up claims that “caffeine is harmful to humans if swallowed”.
Their report said the substance, a central component of coffee, could cause adverse effects on the heart, hydration and body temperature, as well as triggering anxiety and sleep problems.
There was not sufficient research to judge whether caffeine is a risk for people who work with it or live near where it is processed, it added.
The report was produced to reinforce a decision to ban caffeine from being used to kill snails and slugs around cabbage and potato patches.
But it has prompted fears that Brussels regulations could one day target coffee, a staple of the European way of life.
Anders Vistisen, a Danish MEP and chief whip of Patriots for Europe said: “More unwelcome and needless inference from meddling bureaucrats in Brussels!
“What is this all leading to? Are they seriously going to eventually force us to drink decaffeinated coffee? It’s becoming ridiculous.
“Nobody thinks smoking and whiskey are good for you, but they add pleasure to many people’s lives,” he added.
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I’m going to call BS on this.
The EU is not going to ban coffee. I can tell you right now.
I wish they’d try because it would turn the population against them, but I fear even the EU bureaucracy isn’t that stupid.
Someone who thought very much like you probably said almost exactly the same when the campaign against smoking started in earnest about in the middle of the last century.
This one is very clickbaity.
I do think that whisky is good for me, because it’s a legal muscle relaxant, something I frequently need to keep cramps and spasms at bay¹.
¹ Imagine the joy of trying to cut a slice from a loaf of bread and then, your hand suddenly jerks violently and you cut into your fingers instead. I’ve managed to cut the complete tip of my thumb off during a past instance of that.
It sounds like you may need more magnesium in your diet, because it helps stop “restless legs syndrome”. Maybe eat more nuts and bananas?
The Link Between Magnesium and RLS
“Researchers think that magnesium can help improve RLS [Restless Legs Syndrome] symptoms because magnesium makes it easier for muscles to relax. This may because of its calcium-blocking abilities, which help regulate the nerves and muscles instead of letting calcium “activate” the nerves.
If magnesium is low, calcium isn’t blocked and nerves become overactive and trigger muscle contractions.”
Restless Leg Syndrome: Can Your Diet Improve Symptoms?
[Also potassium can help]
I know the official story of the so-called health system for that. However, for me, this dates back to a Haluperidol overdose I accidentally had about 25 years ago. This apparently did some permanent damage which has been with me to varying degrees ever since. But thanks for the suggestion.
I find magnesium has improved my sleep
Good! The tryptophan in milk also helps people sleep; hence your grandma plying you with a hot milky drink at bedtime, like Horlicks or Ovaltine, when you were a kid. Even just hot milk with a teaspoon of sugar in it is also a simple remedy.
Hmm, yes. I probably drink too much wine in the evening and not enough milk 🙂
This is very interesting, because although small amounts of caffeine in tea, coffee and chocolate have many health benefits, there is a link between extremely high caffeine consumption and extremely high rates of dementia, as in countries like Finland (highest coffee consumption per capita) and Uruguay (caffeine in mate).
And that’s because caffeine disrupts a fantastic human enzyme called “CHITINASE”, which protects mammals from the dementia-causing brain neuron entanglements caused by CHITIN, from INSECTS.
And that’s why the whole Globalist Plan to force us all to eat insects has a sinister sub-text: it will cause widespread dementia, to make us Vegan Global Slaves even easier to control.
ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA DEATH RATE BY COUNTRY
Dementia Rates by Country 2024
That’s me screwed then. I just calculated that I get through about 11kg per year. 30g/day. Two heaped large scoops of pre-ground coffee. Probably no point in stopping now. Wibble.
Well, that sounds like about 6 cups of very strong coffee a day. No need to stop completely, but maybe just cut down the number of cups a day. All things in moderation, as they say.
Two mugs of strong coffee with lots of cream. Moderation is for monks.
I used to drink more (coffee) but I cut down when I realised that if I didn’t get my daily ‘fix’ I got withdrawal headaches. Now if I have to do without for a day or two I don’t get effect. I had to drastically cut down when I spent a couple of weeks in hospital about a decade ago – but as I felt like sh!t anyway who can tell if it was made worse by lack of caffeine?
Far too late to worry about it now.
Well done for cutting down from your previous, because it really can wreck your nervous system, as you know.
Including moderation; as my Grandfather used to say.
Ha-ha! That really made me laugh! 🙂 Good on your granddad.
At minimum, I’m going to have 10 of that which would mean 53.4kg/ year. Realistically, it’s probably more 85kg. And that’s my reduced coffee consumption, meaning, it’s no longer so much that I’d get these very nasty headaches you mention below.
What???!!! And you wonder why you get tremors and spasms so bad that you cut your fingers while slicing a loaf of bread??? You know the solution.
The population of Finland is about 63% of the population of London and only about 6.7% the population of Germany which means that this grouping isn’t particularly sensible. There are certainly some 6.7% of all people in Germany who consume more caffeinated drinks per year than all people in Finland do. I’d also be willing to risk a bet that coffee consumption in London is a good deal higher than the UK-wide average because it’s more readily available.
The point is the correlation between high caffeine consumption and high numbers of dementia cases, in which Finland seems to lead the world.
The Finns and you Germans need to cut back on your coffee consumption. And the Bolivians and Uruguayans need to cut back on that tea they call mate (with an accent over the e) (“mah- tay”).
Off-T An excellent article from the indefatigable Iain Davis at Off-guardian.org which concludes that Kneel is not just working for the Trilateral Commission but is in fact a serving member. Obviously this will not come as a surprise to many of us but it is good to see the case against him laid out so starkly. I might have stated more than once that Kneel is a treasonous bar steward, here’s the proof. https://off-guardian.org/2025/02/20/the-trilateralist-keir-starmer/ “Well I make no pronouncement of guilt – who am I to do so – but the evidence clearly indicates he is a serving Trilateralist and also reveals he has mislead his party and parliament about this before. Trilateralists have a clear set of sociopolitical and economic objectives. They believe in establishing an, or maintaining, the power and authority of a modern aristocracy. For whatever reason, frankly it is beyond me, people still elect governments. That government is supposed to serve the interests of the people of the nation. So, clearly, if the UK prime minister is a Trilateralist the evidence suggests he does not serve the interests of the people. Personally, I think that evidence should be highlighted and people should know about it.” An… Read more »
And this is the agenda they are carrying out, just like they did with Foot & Mouth. It is never about what they say it’s about!
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Being a member of the Trilateral Commission doubtless helped get him installed as Labour leader.
“Unless somebody resigns from the Commission they keep the name of a public servant in a special section below the active members. [. . .] When they get out of office they’re simply moved up the list to the regular list again. [. . .] It supposedly shields them from criticism that, well, they’re not really speaking for the Trilateral Commission. [. . .] What a sham!”
I refer you to ‘Sleeper’ (Woody Allen version).
When you have a dry mouth, there is nothing better that a hot cup of strong tea for me!
Totally agree. Though I hope you don’t mean that if I have a dry mouth you will have a cup of tea. That would be cruel.
Why have the comments been turned off under the asylum system article from last night?🤔 Yes, I agree with your observations. Hardliner removed some comments, inc Hux’s and mine, then removed his own comments, so I’m replying to myself. Weird.😐
Very odd.
I hadn’t realised Mogs. Normally I backtrack on the previous day but not this one.
Crikey.
Mine was only about Five Guys in Brum going Halal. Nothing too edgy there, I would’ve thought.😁
It was a software issue related to Moderation that caused the disappearance of most of the Commemts. We’re looking at a possible fix for future occasions
Thanks for that clarification.
Too many people justifying their jobs by coming up with this crap. Meanwhile all the dumb leaders of Germany, France etc who are financially in the crapper because of the EU edicts from climate to allowing the rest of the world to enter their countries and parasite off them, pay billions to Von der Layen and her gang of maggots to waste money on this.
Dear God get Elon Musk in there and close the whole darn edifice and the parasites down.
Hear, hear.
I sprinkle it coffee grinds around the exterior of my house to keep ants and other acidic hating insects away. It works.
Have you tried salt for slugs?
Oh no! Don’t you know salt is bad for you?
It’s worse for the slugs though.
They don’t do too well with petrol either.
Or washing up liquid
EU regulations are very strict about what can and can’t be used as a pesticide – hence the stupidity pointed out in this article. At one point panelists on Gardener’s Question Time resorted to saying things like: ‘I couldn’t possible advise you to use washing up liquid on your aphids as it is not an approved pesticide, but it is what we used to do and it works’.
This should be a trigger for the mass boycott of council tax
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Come on man this is beneath contempt have some self-respect. You just demean everything else that you write when you identify yourself as a cheap whore. Maybe you were struggling against a deadline and you saw a coffee cup on your desk and it inspired this little masterpiece. The subject matter is interesting though. There are books about discussions that occurred in English coffee houses three hundred years ago and the effects opn the political climate. Some of the Victorian writing in praise of tobacco is astonishing. And of course tea drinking has a far richer tradition. Tony Benn said that tea is always the preferred drink of the intellectual. You can imagine a few centuries ago when England was in its heyday intellectually, that the introduction of strange magical new stimulants would very much intensify the hubbub. Look at Sherlock Holmes. Rudolf Steiner is very good on describing the way these stimulants work on the body and mind.
Basil Rathbone was the best Sherlock Holmes.
i think the argument that coffee is bad for you is very dubious. There are some health benefits to coffee. As always, what is their evidence?
Sorry – I’m only allowed to award one thumbs-up!
Water is also potentially harmful. You can drown in it.
Salt. You could kill a man with too much salt. Drop a kilo of it on his head from 10m.
Oxygen. From the moment we take our first breath it starts killing us.
It only becomes harmful if you wake up in the morning and feel that you need it to function. Caffeine has a lot to do with where you are living. For example Norwegian researchers observed that life expectancy in southern Norway was much higher than in the north. They came up with a theory which suggested that the reason for the discrepancy was that in the north they don’t filter their coffee and coffee fat is very toxic. They don’t filter their coffee but in the dark time people do whatever they can to stay alert. Big affect on memory and cognition. If you were living in hot tropical heat then you probably wouldn’t feel like coffee at all. Atttitudes towards longevity have a lot to do with exposure to easy living.
As someone called it, luxury beliefs!
The outright lies told by the EU are harmful to humans too, if swallowed.
Pretty much everything is dangerous to humans, if you eat or drink enough of it.
I eat quite a lot of very dark chocolate, also high in caffeine. Will that be next?
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What are all the Starbucks Snowflakes gonna do now?🤪
I definitely agree with Anders on this one. Europe and the Uk are turning into armpits. Avoid folks.