Seems our now Globalist led industries really do not give an expletive about the health of their paying customers and are doing diddly squat in cleaning up their act. While they are researching this health crime look into the alum contamination coming from heavy doses of toxic chemicals being dropped upon the populations, water courses and agricultural ground doing god knows what additional damage to everything and everybody.
We're given these new products like water bottled in plastic, yoghurt plastic tubs, teabags replaced loose tea, no one has asked for any of it. There wasn't a revolution against inconvenience.
Would not 600 mL of water be almost totally absorbed by the 300 tea bags immersed in it ? How was this 600 mL or even 500 mL recovered then ? By heavy squeezing, may be under pressure. Would not this physical assault disintegrate the tea bag material ? In using tea bags at home, most of the time we don’t even squeeze it in any manner, just discard it after 5 seconds of drip-drain. So this experiment is no where near reality. One has to be wary of microplastics. Airborne particles, looks like one major entry into our bodies. When particulate matter in the air is studied in cities, how much of it is microplastics ? Why don’t the author look for this data. Microplastic diffusion from packaging - modern packaging material may not be all that disintegrative. One could think of additives like phthalates in packaging films and sheets, but we have talking about the deleterious effect of phthalates on human health for such a long time that I wonder if any gets into food contact applications now. Additives chemistry is vast and I am sure many safer alternatives are in use now. Like seed oils, this microplastics damaging humans seems to be another exaggerated story. Make a realistic assessment of how real the problem is towards human and life form health and then think of appropriate corrective measures including via material science and technology. Don’t give the idea that in food processing, there is continuous exposure to plastics. Generally, the contact comes in the very last stage, when the processed item is packed for shipment.
OK, so assuming this is true(and I suspect it is), how, without offering us approaches to successfully address this on a political level, is this anything other than a fear based piece ? What do you propose? Exactly? The US government fast tracks plastics manufacturing plants in Louisiana and we have ever more useless single use packaging created so oil companies and their plastics subsidiaries(and their shareholders) make ephemeral profits while rivers oceans, our air and lands are covered in their detritus. And we just let them ? Or should I say, legislatures bought and paid for by lobbyists just let them ? How do we stop it ? And even if we do, what then do we package food in for millions upon millions of people ? Glass ? Great. Costs of shipping would be an order of magnitude higher for the weight…at the same time cheap energy is getting less so. Move to local food production ? OK. How does that work for New York, Boston, LA or Beijing and Bangkok?
There may be solution here or maybe not, but I sure as shit haven’t figured it out yet.
Seems our now Globalist led industries really do not give an expletive about the health of their paying customers and are doing diddly squat in cleaning up their act. While they are researching this health crime look into the alum contamination coming from heavy doses of toxic chemicals being dropped upon the populations, water courses and agricultural ground doing god knows what additional damage to everything and everybody.
You are 💯correct 🔥😎💪
Okay so dont eat or drink anything. Got it.
We're given these new products like water bottled in plastic, yoghurt plastic tubs, teabags replaced loose tea, no one has asked for any of it. There wasn't a revolution against inconvenience.
Would not 600 mL of water be almost totally absorbed by the 300 tea bags immersed in it ? How was this 600 mL or even 500 mL recovered then ? By heavy squeezing, may be under pressure. Would not this physical assault disintegrate the tea bag material ? In using tea bags at home, most of the time we don’t even squeeze it in any manner, just discard it after 5 seconds of drip-drain. So this experiment is no where near reality. One has to be wary of microplastics. Airborne particles, looks like one major entry into our bodies. When particulate matter in the air is studied in cities, how much of it is microplastics ? Why don’t the author look for this data. Microplastic diffusion from packaging - modern packaging material may not be all that disintegrative. One could think of additives like phthalates in packaging films and sheets, but we have talking about the deleterious effect of phthalates on human health for such a long time that I wonder if any gets into food contact applications now. Additives chemistry is vast and I am sure many safer alternatives are in use now. Like seed oils, this microplastics damaging humans seems to be another exaggerated story. Make a realistic assessment of how real the problem is towards human and life form health and then think of appropriate corrective measures including via material science and technology. Don’t give the idea that in food processing, there is continuous exposure to plastics. Generally, the contact comes in the very last stage, when the processed item is packed for shipment.
Is there an alternative to food?
OK, so assuming this is true(and I suspect it is), how, without offering us approaches to successfully address this on a political level, is this anything other than a fear based piece ? What do you propose? Exactly? The US government fast tracks plastics manufacturing plants in Louisiana and we have ever more useless single use packaging created so oil companies and their plastics subsidiaries(and their shareholders) make ephemeral profits while rivers oceans, our air and lands are covered in their detritus. And we just let them ? Or should I say, legislatures bought and paid for by lobbyists just let them ? How do we stop it ? And even if we do, what then do we package food in for millions upon millions of people ? Glass ? Great. Costs of shipping would be an order of magnitude higher for the weight…at the same time cheap energy is getting less so. Move to local food production ? OK. How does that work for New York, Boston, LA or Beijing and Bangkok?
There may be solution here or maybe not, but I sure as shit haven’t figured it out yet.