How did we let that loose...?

It worked. Ignorance of long term effects. Like the Roman era lead pipe. Or coal fired industrial plants.

That's a widespread but inaccurate rumour. Lead pipes were in use until end of 19th century without poisioning people en masse. But what the Romans did back then was to store acidic foods in lead pots and bowls... The acid together with a long time caused the poisoning of those foods.

How did we let that loose...?

It worked. Ignorance of long term effects. Like the Roman era lead pipe. Or coal fired industrial plants.

That's a widespread but inaccurate rumour. Lead pipes were in use until end of 19th century without poisioning people en masse. But what the Romans did back then was to store acidic foods in lead pots and bowls... The acid together with a long time caused the poisoning of those foods.

Profiting from poison: how the US lead industry knowingly created a water crisis

The year was 1933 and, to a group of industrialists gathered in a New York City lunch club, it seemed like the lead industry was doomed.

The women’s pages of newspapers were filled with stories about children being poisoned by the metal, which had been identified as dangerous as early as the mid-1800s. And cities around America had started banning the use of lead pipes for drinking water.
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In Chicago, the city code still said in early 1986 that any pipe 2in or less in diameter connecting a home to the water system had to be lead – and plumbers fought to keep that rule in place for decades, news accounts suggest.

"Alle Dinge sind Gift, und nichts ist ohne Gift; allein die dosis machts, daß ein Ding kein Gift sei."
All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dosage makes a thing not a poison.

Paracelsus, i.e. Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), Swiss physician, alchemist, philosopher.

Regarding the irresponsible long-term use of lead pipes, despite scientific knowledge about health risks... An identical story can be told about the use of asbestos in seals, brake pads, for structural fire protection, as roofing material...

Those pesky poisonous pesticides get where you don't want...


We found unhealthy pesticide levels in 20% of US produce – here’s what you need to know
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When it comes to healthy eating, fruits and vegetables reign supreme. But along with all their vitamins, minerals and other nutrients can come something else: an unhealthy dose of dangerous pesticides.

Though using chemicals to control bugs, fungi and weeds helps farmers grow the food we need, it’s been clear since at least the 1960s that some chemicals also carry unacceptable health risks. And although certain notorious pesticides, such as DDT, have been banned in the US, government regulators have been slow to act on others...

... Select carefully to eat healthy!

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In my opinion: Deadly unscrupulous deadly nasty...


Nestlé baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugars—but only in poorer countries


Also, I personally continue to boycott all and everything and anything to do with that deadly name.

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In my opinion: Deadly unscrupulous deadly nasty...
Nestlé baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugars—but only in poorer countries

Is that poor countries or countries with poor legal systems?

In my opinion: Deadly unscrupulous deadly nasty...
Nestlé baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugars—but only in poorer countries

Is that poor countries or countries with poor legal systems?

The second is inherited from the first.

Has the EPA and the rest of the world been far too slow catching up with this one?...


PFAS Increase Likelihood of Death By Cardiovascular Disease...
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... researchers have formally shown that exposure to toxic PFAS increases the likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, adding a new level of concern to the controversial chemicals' wide use...

... Records further showed an increased likelihood of death from several cancers, but stopped short of establishing a formal association because of other factors...

... drinking water was widely contaminated by a PFAS-production plant between 1985 and 2018. Researchers first found an excess of about 4,000 deaths during this period, or about one [person] every three days...

... the findings underscore the need to ban PFAS, and the disaster's injustice.

Live and drink well?

Stay healthy folks!
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Meanwhile... Here in the UK, we have:


Farmers’ union lobbied to increase pesticide limit in UK drinking water
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NFU’s director of strategy asked for review ['removal'] of EU-derived protections as part of post-Brexit loosening of rules...

What 'good' would that do?...

Live and drink well??

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They been pounding us with adds trying to convince us that they're good and 1 is even sponsoring a reality show, but they're just greenwashing us in the end.

MasterChef grilled in greenwashing inquiry over controversial gas sponsorship deal.

Network Ten has been grilled by a Senate inquiry into greenwashing and refused to put a number on a controversial gas sponsorship deal for its successful MasterChef show.

MasterChef came under fire last month when its 16th season aired with official sponsors including the gas grid operator, Australian Gas Network (AGN).

Environmental groups labelled it cynical greenwashing and have since lodged a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

During the prime-time slot, AGN spruiked the benefits of "renewable" gas cooking, including a barbecue powered by AGN-supplied hydrogen, and open flame cooktops powered by biomethane.........

......Clorox, the company that owns the GLAD brand, was another company that appeared before Friday’s inquiry.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently took the company to court for selling GLAD garbage bags in Australia and New Zealand it claimed were made from 50 per cent recycled ocean plastics.

The ACCC claimed it was “false or misleading representations", alleging that “these GLAD kitchen and garbage bags were instead partly made from plastic that was collected from communities in Indonesia up to 50 kilometres from a shoreline, and not from the ocean or sea.”

The inquiry heard that the company changed the marketing to instead say “ocean-bound” plastic.....

We have been and continue to be badly slimed, but this time, for everyone:


Lawyers To Plastic Makers: Prepare For 'Astronomical' PFAS Lawsuits
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... Unlike tobacco, used by only a subset of the public, "pretty much every one of us in the United States is walking around with PFAS in our bodies," said Erik Olson, senior strategic director for environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "And we're being exposed without our knowledge or consent, often by industries that knew how dangerous the chemicals were, and failed to disclose that," he said. "That's a formula for really significant liability."

What more dead cats get dragged out of deadly bags?

Business with no morals?

And everything and everyone be damned?


All in our deadly greedy world...
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Tobacco is still sold even today.

A very unhealthy Marketing battle of greedy profits:

“Deny, denounce, delay”: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods
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Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the effects of industrially formulated substances...

... What the food companies really fear, he says, is that UPF ingredients such as additives and stabilizers will be targeted for labeling. “Once we start interfering with those, they will be prevented from making food that makes us eat more,”...

And the slimy adverse consequences to people be damned...

All in our world of deadly greedy profits...
Martin


UPF: Ultra-processed foods (most of the contents of a "Western" supermarket...)

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No surprises here:


Two slices of ham a day can raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, research suggests
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Cambridge-led study of 2m people globally is most comprehensive evidence yet of red meat link to diabetes...

Although this study is not to show any direct cause-and-effect, all the connections strongly add up.

How can 2 million people be 'wrong'?...


Instead, eat and live healthy!

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No surprises here:


Two slices of ham a day can raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, research suggests
wrote:

Cambridge-led study of 2m people globally is most comprehensive evidence yet of red meat link to diabetes...

Although this study is not to show any direct cause-and-effect, all the connections strongly add up.

How can 2 million people be 'wrong'?...


Instead, eat and live healthy!

Enjoy!!
Martin

Doctors cast doubt on ham-sandwich diabetes warning

Newspaper headlines are warning eating "a ham sandwich a day" increases a the risk of type 2 diabetes - but experts say it is not that simple.
A study of nearly two million people from 20 different countries found a link with both red and processed meats, such as steak, bacon and sausages.
But doctors say while the research has been done well, the findings are nuanced and should not cause fear or panic.
It is sensible to limit intake, in line with healthy-eating guidelines, they say, but the study should not wipe meat off the menu.

Missing data
The research, in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, external journal, has an inevitable limitation - it cannot prove meat causes diabetes, because it is impossible to discount the other possible risk factors, such as other foods people in the study ate and the lifestyle they led.

... other possible risk factors, such as other foods people in the study ate and the lifestyle they led.

Exactly so!

So...

Those who eat ham sandwiches are also likely to have the mentality/'lifestyle' to also eat other less-than-healthy foodstuffs...

Myself, I try to eat healthy, which means that as far as is possible I do not eat ham or ultraprocessed breads. (Hence, I similarly do not eat other unhealthy adulterated meats or other ultraprocessed foodstuffs. )


Enjoy your good simply healthy foods folks!
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... But what about the fish?


Prozac in waterways is changing how fish behave...
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Contamination of waterways with the antidepressant Prozac is disrupting fish bodies and behaviours in ways that could threaten their long-term survival...

... thousands of chemicals were “being dumped into our waterways every day”...

... the changes observed in guppies at low concentrations of the drug should be taken as a warning about their ability “to live and survive and thrive in a polluted environment”...

... medicines were designed to work at low doses, which could explain why there were more profound effects at low concentrations...

... including upstream and downstream of wastewater treatment plants. Sampling detected common antidepressants, blood pressure, heart and epilepsy medicines, caffeine and antibiotics. “It’s a whole cocktail that we’re dealing with,”...

... also tested for pharmaceuticals in commonly caught fish. The highest concentrations were for antidepressants, including venlafaxine (150 micrograms a kilogram) in redfin perch and sertraline (100 micrograms/kg) in eel. Saaristo said there was no significant risk to human health but the regulator was monitoring the situation.

She said people should not flush pharmaceuticals down the toilet. Instead they should return unwanted and expired medicines to a pharmacy...

... And what about ourselves drinking that water and eating the fish?...

Stay healthy folks?
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... And what about ourselves drinking that water and eating the fish?...

We drink treated water from deep wells or spring water imported from France. Instead of river fish, we prefer salmon from floating farms. No need to care about fishes or waterways...

There is a cost and added consequences to the Market trick of 'restricting the supply':


Force companies to report their food waste, say leading UK retailers


All a game of pricing people out of their food?...

All in a very (profits) greedy world...
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