• Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Aside from tobacco, all of those things were known to be dangerous but used commercially anyway because they were cheaper than alternatives. Today’s equivalents are PFAS, plastics, and sweeteners of every kind. You will die with all of them in your body.

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      1 year ago

      They’re finding microplastics everywhere now. Even like inside apples and stuff: the plastic somehow travels up the tree into the fruit

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        Somehow? This rock, and most everything on it, is almost completely water. Microplastics are in “the water”, therefore they’re in everything.