Despite all this terrible news about plastics, we still won't go after the oil companies or plastic producers in the US to help put a stop to this.
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It would be inconvenient for the economy if we started prioritizing people.
I agree with you, but PFAS/"Forever Chemicals" and micro/nano plastics are different things with their own host of concerns.
They go hand in hand with a lot of plastic packaging. Either way, it'd be nice to go after companies like DuPont, Bayer, 3M, and Honeywell as well as the oil companies that provide them the raw materials anyway.
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Assuming that research is accurate, and also given that those 3 things make up a huge portion of my diet, then I'm probably mostly made of PFAS these days.
I think we all are, unfortunately.
Born too late to be made of lead or asbestos, born just in time to be made of microplastics.
Same, except I eat brown and red rice instead of white. I also stopped buying pre-peeled shrimp because I read it has the highest level of microplastics among seafood.
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"Three things people in this world consume more than almost anyone else now poison you."
Hooray.
Next up. Do you drink water? Turns out its all poison now!
Soon:
How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
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Coffee, eggs, white rice
Selection bias much?
If you don't consume any of those 3 you're probably ridiculously wealthy on some freaky diet.
All this says to me is "The food of the masses is contaminated" which yeah - we already knew the rich pay a premium to get less contaminated food.
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Coffee and rice? Just fucking kill me already, lol
Or:
I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world Life in plastic, it's fantastic~
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Is that because of the food products themselves, or because of the non-stick coatings frequently used to package/cook/brew/prepare them?
Because of their ubiquitous usage and environmental persistence, humans are exposed to a variety of PFAS, primarily through ingestion of contaminated water and food, though PFAS have also been detected in air, indoor dust, and consumer products (Domingo and Nadal, 2017; Sunderland et al., 2019).
While certain communities can be highly exposed to PFAS due to proximity to an industrial site or occupational exposure, PFAS exposure is ubiquitous among human populations, with 98 % of the U.S. population having detectable concentrations of PFAS in their blood (Calafat et al., 2007; National Center for Environmental Health Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2023).
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coffee
Ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck...
I would rather die than give up the coffee
A lot of the world will die if they give up rice.
Obviously, they should start eating cake.
Are you suggesting we begin sharpening large blades?
Are you trying to help me sharpen, or get my account banned from this right-leaning new community?
😐
No no, I'm just trying to make sure your kitchen is at its best. I do have some suggestions for how to build a knife block though...
I have found the bones of the rich to be too brittle to build with. Alas, you cannot mention such things in this community. Civil unrest is strictly prohibited!
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This is our generation's lead
In coffee, researchers suspect that the beans, water used for brewing, or soil could be contaminated. Previous research has also found coffee filters to be treated with PFAS, and paper cups or other food packaging also commonly contain the chemicals.
I'd guess it could also be K Cups and non-dairy creamer, but who knows
At this point everything on earth is contaminated with PFAS, PFOS, PFOA etc etc.
For too long gov'ts just let the industries do what they wanted without any real oversight.
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So far I haven't seen beer and cigarettes on any of these lists.
The only safe foods are beef wheat potatoes and high fructose corn syrup.
Huxley warned us that the things we love would kill us but I'd don't think he thought it would be like this particular case.
But this is my entire diet...
That's basically the Latino diet. I'm fucked.
Feel like the real underdog here is seafood.
Like, we know toxins concentrate in water creatures. That's why you'll see way more warnings about fish you harvest on any DNR page than you will deer.
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