I am cleaning my house this morning. Found a drink bottle and thought I'd check the number on the bottom to see if it was BPA free. Here is an easy to read web page that talks a little about what plastics are considered safe for our bodies.
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I know there is a sea of plastic in the ocean that no one likes to think about, someone told me about it a long time ago and I just filed it away in my mind somewhere. For some reason I'm bugged by it today. I did a search for pictures of plastic in the ocean, it is sort of ugly ugly
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This plastic is so prevalent in our environment now, it is in small parts in the sand on many beaches and now days it is difficult to find drinking water that is really clear of so many things so one might throw ones hands up and say what is the point, easy to think it doesn't matter if you live far inland and away from the sea. Not moralising, just bothered, does anyone else feel bothered by this? I recycle everything I possibly can so they don't find themselves making more plastic than necessary, I don't use cling film (not sure what to do with the huge roll someone just gave me but can't bring myself to throw it away - it is probably useful for things that don't make it release its nasties when it gets heated - very dangerous to heat it in the microwave over food) . . . bla bla bla. I have two teenage boys and a husband, I love the guys in my life, and feel for the guys in the world. Some plastics put more oestrogens in to our bodies and if you are a guy then that is not necessarily wanted, on the most superficial level it makes your body more feminine (estrogen is the female hormone and men need a little but not much) but the bigger problem is that it affects fertility in men and that is a problem which we as a race don't need either. If you don't know already, the endocrine system relates to the natural production of hormones in the body (many glands do this job - thyroid, hypothalamus, pituitary . . . testicles, ovaries . . . ). The link above talks about number 3,6 and 7 plastics as problematic for the endocrine system. Hormones are really just message carriers in the body - make more fat here, work harder there, make muscle there . . . .
This link talks about high estrogen in men
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I know it seems an isolated and very small thing to fixate on (I do this sometimes, got to take some deep breaths and relax, zoom out from the window sort of thing, cause my nose is pressed up so hard against the glass that I can see the shape of it with one eye closed!) but it will have implications for our kids and their kids etc. etc. Next to Fukishima it pales, and next to ones loved ones dying it is just not in the same picture but it sure as heck (expletive edited) bothers me. I know it is not related to chickens or animals or stuff like that but I just wanted to talk about it somewhere, wonder if others have worried about this too.
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I know there is a sea of plastic in the ocean that no one likes to think about, someone told me about it a long time ago and I just filed it away in my mind somewhere. For some reason I'm bugged by it today. I did a search for pictures of plastic in the ocean, it is sort of ugly ugly
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This plastic is so prevalent in our environment now, it is in small parts in the sand on many beaches and now days it is difficult to find drinking water that is really clear of so many things so one might throw ones hands up and say what is the point, easy to think it doesn't matter if you live far inland and away from the sea. Not moralising, just bothered, does anyone else feel bothered by this? I recycle everything I possibly can so they don't find themselves making more plastic than necessary, I don't use cling film (not sure what to do with the huge roll someone just gave me but can't bring myself to throw it away - it is probably useful for things that don't make it release its nasties when it gets heated - very dangerous to heat it in the microwave over food) . . . bla bla bla. I have two teenage boys and a husband, I love the guys in my life, and feel for the guys in the world. Some plastics put more oestrogens in to our bodies and if you are a guy then that is not necessarily wanted, on the most superficial level it makes your body more feminine (estrogen is the female hormone and men need a little but not much) but the bigger problem is that it affects fertility in men and that is a problem which we as a race don't need either. If you don't know already, the endocrine system relates to the natural production of hormones in the body (many glands do this job - thyroid, hypothalamus, pituitary . . . testicles, ovaries . . . ). The link above talks about number 3,6 and 7 plastics as problematic for the endocrine system. Hormones are really just message carriers in the body - make more fat here, work harder there, make muscle there . . . .
This link talks about high estrogen in men
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I know it seems an isolated and very small thing to fixate on (I do this sometimes, got to take some deep breaths and relax, zoom out from the window sort of thing, cause my nose is pressed up so hard against the glass that I can see the shape of it with one eye closed!) but it will have implications for our kids and their kids etc. etc. Next to Fukishima it pales, and next to ones loved ones dying it is just not in the same picture but it sure as heck (expletive edited) bothers me. I know it is not related to chickens or animals or stuff like that but I just wanted to talk about it somewhere, wonder if others have worried about this too.