[HN Gopher] Microplastics Are Everywhere - Here's How to Avoid E...
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       Microplastics Are Everywhere - Here's How to Avoid Eating Them
        
       Author : rufus_foreman
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-05-31 18:53 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | la64710 wrote:
       | Wow full of ads
        
       | genman wrote:
       | TL;DR Don't let your food and drinks touch plastic.
        
         | rufus_foreman wrote:
         | I thought some of the tips were interesting which is why I
         | posted it. For example, the cutting board thing. I had never
         | thought about it but obviously if you are using a plastic
         | cutting board and cutting food on it with a knife, you are
         | almost certainly getting plastic in your food.
        
       | timellis-smith wrote:
       | Colour me a bit cynical but we use plastic massively in
       | healthcare and food industries precisely because it is non toxic.
       | 
       | Given the massive prevalence of plastic on just about all our
       | food, if it was really such a threat I would expect life
       | expectancies to have dropped.
       | 
       | Personally I regard this all as fear mongering.
        
         | llamaimperative wrote:
         | We used mercury in fur clothing and lead in gasoline also
         | because they were nontoxic.
         | 
         | We are seeing population-scale effects exactly identical to
         | what we see in animal models and in Petri dishes. Hormone
         | disruption, which you'd expect to see metabolic disorders (like
         | obesity), changes in sexuality (in animals we see a reduction
         | in sexual dimorphism -- plausibly connected to gender
         | dysphoria), and fertility problems.
         | 
         | We don't _know_ for certain this stuff is bad, but I am
         | absolutely sure that your confidence is unwarranted.
        
           | germinalphrase wrote:
           | " We used mercury in fur clothing and lead in gasoline also
           | because they were nontoxic."
           | 
           | Ah, yes. That nontoxic mercury not at all turning our hatters
           | mad.
        
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