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Result of designing the food supply chain for manufacturer convenience and profit, instead of health of the people. Yeah, but it's the "free market" so we're all supposed to cheer at new products and boo at regulations.
It's the government that wrote the current food pyramid and teaches it to people in schools.
It's worth pointing out that the "genetic changes" in question are changes in gene expression .
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Transfers to you? There are microparticles of plastic in every liquid you drink, floating in the air, in the digestive systems of practically every animal in the food chain. When you wash a piece of polyester or microfiber in a washing machine you are sending millions of little microscopic pieces of plastic into the water supply. Ever drink from a plastic water bottle that sat in a hot car and it tastes really funny?…
It seems like there are varying definitions of microparticles. Are you referring to stuff that is still slightly visible to the naked eye (if you squint), something the requires a regular microscope or something that needs an electron microscope. I'd like to think that my zerowater filter which filters out enough such that a TDS meter reads 0 would filter out microplastics but who really knows. I don't inspect every…
It's nice to see the anti seed oil discourse ramping up lately, but I'm sort of pessimistic about this. Like what is the endgame, exactly? Seed oils are in basically everything. Trying to avoid them is like trying to avoid endocrine disruptors by not touching plastic or eating anything that has touched plastic. It's sort of an absurd thing to even attempt, it would drive you insane.
Research like this can also help cut back on a lot of the scapegoating that goes around about the obesity crisis.