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Our food systems are the greatest

CR (Consumer Reports) - How to eat less plastic (February 2024 edition)

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The consumer can have a little plastic, as a treat
- Ah. Like having a cheat day. On tuesdays, just have a little plastic toppings on your tacos....
Thought of this community as soon as this issue hit my eyes for the first time last week.
Not "how to stop eating plastic"...just how to eat less....cuz we all have to eat some...
- Maybe the FDA will add it to the food pyramid.
  
  Declare it a vegetable like pizza.
  
  Solid base of plastic
- For years I avoided seafood for the microplastics issue, then that study just dropped revealing that it's in chicken, beef, and plant-based meats too. Fuck me all of us, right?
  https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/48090/20240109/microplastics-found-nearly-90-meat-even-plant-based-ones-study.htm
  
  best not look at the nano & microplastics in bottled water.
  https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223730333/bottled-water-plastic-microplastic-nanoplastic-study
- cuz we all have to eat some...
  That is the unfortunate reality.
Step 1: make sure to choose to be born to rich parents...
(j/k - this is Step 1 to just about every such piece of advice the media tends to give these days:-P)
Step 1 - Stop eating
With world hunger dropping, yes, our food system is the greatest so far.
- ...and the great news is that if you eat a heaping helping of plastic you'll remain full forever!
  
  Not true. I'm told I'm eating and drinking multiple helpings of plastic every day and I still get hungry.

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