@2ndidvet@thegarybrecka 2/2 and everything is the #1 existential environmental threat in the moment it’s being talked about. Starts to just feel like fear porn.
@2ndidvet@thegarybrecka My frustration is really with the MAHA movement and how all of these get treated as fads rather than serious dangers. Last month it was glyphosate. Month before it was petro drys and processed sugar. Next month probably heavy metals. They jump around like high school fashion.
@2ndidvet@thegarybrecka I’m entirely unconvinced that my health would improve in any meaningful or measurable way if I stopped using plastic water bottles. I’ll just put it that way.
@2ndidvet@thegarybrecka 2/2 above all of that. The extra attention to microplastics this past month or so just seems coordinated to me. It doesn’t seem like an existential threat when there’s 8 billion people on earth and maybe a few hundred of them tops are even thinking about over exposure to plastic.
@2ndidvet@thegarybrecka 1/2 What evidence is there to even say “to a lesser extent”? Seems like seed oils are responsible for a lot. Petroleum dyes. Carcinogens in pork. Glyphosate, bleach exposure. And just general overprocessed foods, sugar, obesity, sedentary lifestyle. Idk that I’d put microplastics
@thegarybrecka If you drank it for 40 years and you’re arguably probably one of the most metabolically, biologically healthy people on planet earth, how imperative do you really think it is that everyone stop drinking it? Are this and microplastics really a top 3 priority?