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Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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What is the problem with these "plastics"?

It took us a couple thousand years to realize we should stop fucking around with asbestos.

Although limestone is still considered safe and is used as e.g. filler in pills. So who knows, plastic too could be as safe or as unsafe as any rock.

Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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Note that they seem to only appear in processed food. That's kind of OK of you cook yourself apparently.

Unless you eat anything pork. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPbF45-ZB5M

Cows too are fed candy (with wrapper)

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2013/12/cow-feed-chicken-po...

Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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Note that they seem to only appear in processed food. That's kind of OK of you cook yourself apparently.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230103-how-plastic-is-g...

> Plastic particles can also contaminate food crops directly. A 2020 study found microplastics and nanoplastics in fruit and vegetables sold by supermarkets and in produce sold by local sellers in Catania in Sicily, Italy. Apples were the most contaminated fruit, and carrots had the highest levels of microplastics among the sampled vegetables.

> According to research by Willie Peijnenburg, professor of environmental toxicology and biodiversity at Leiden University in the Netherlands, crops absorb nanoplastic particles – minuscule fragments measuring between 1-100nm in size, or about 1,000 to 100 times smaller than a human blood cell – from surrounding water and soil through tiny cracks in their roots.

Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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Note that they seem to only appear in processed food. That's kind of OK of you cook yourself apparently.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230103-how-plastic-is-g... > Plastic particles can also contaminate food crops directly. A 2020 study found microplastics and nanoplastics in fruit and vegetables sold by supermarkets and in produce sold by local sellers in Catania in Sicily, Italy. Apples were the most contaminated fruit, and carrots had the highest levels of microplastics among the sampled vegetables. > Accordin…

Isn't there also limited to no evidence of harms from these in humans?

Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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What is the problem with these "plastics"?

It took us a couple thousand years to realize we should stop fucking around with asbestos.

I’m more concerned with the man made fucking around that was done in the last 100 years to be honest.
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