Microplastics are a huge concern of mine. For years now, I've been storing food in glass as much as possible, and I know I use far less than the average American (just look in their refrigerators), but I am still alarmed by such things as: my water drawn from a spring but stored in plastic, my compost which is made in plastic easy-to-rotate bins, and the meats I buy, which are produced under excellent conditions but frozen in plastic. Even the local farms package stuff that can't be sold in bunches (greens mostly) in plastic bags. I've been drinking loose teas for years to avoid the microplastics in those tea bags. I'm glad you found out.
The FDA is a joke and should be defunded and discontinued immediately. Same for a lot of those alphabet agencies, if not all of them.
75% of all commercials are for pharmaceutical companies.
My understanding is that these are not intended to increase sales for big pharma, but rather to capture the media, which could not continue without the revenue from those ads, and so they also do not investigate the pharmaceutical industry and all associated alphabet agencies. We can see this very clearly now, since the covid con started.
There is no way anyone can get away from plastic entirely, so we do what we can. We also store our food in glass containers. They are quite expensive and it has taken us a while to replace all of the plastic food containers with glass.
It seems that as the plastic heats up, the problem gets worse.
The one plastic we can't get away from is the vacuum seal bags. All of the veggies that we grow and put in our deep freezer are stored in these bags. At least the bags and the veggies are put in a deep freeze and hopefully the cold prohibits the plastic from breaking down. It's a constant battle to stay on top of it all.
You are the second person who said that they use loose tea because they knew about the microplastics in tea bags, I must have my head in the sand for this one.
The covid con, a hoax that we are still feeling the effects of especially with school children who in reality lost at least a year of schooling.
I'd hardly say missing one component is having your head in the sand! You guys are mostly way ahead of the rest of us.
I understand about the vacuum seal bags, although I've never used them, mostly because I'm such a newbie. I'm hoping to get a freeze dryer and pressure canner this year, so I can avoid the freezer as much as possible. We'll see.
Our kids lost much more than a year of schooling. The covid con has trained them to obey orders, from just about anyone in the government, that do direct harm to themselves. learned how to be good citizens of a totalitarian government, they lost their freedom and their sense of safety. They I urge people to get their kids out of the schools for starters, which were prisons when they finally did reopen, and will be prisons again unless a great many more of us say no.
We do try to stay informed, but there's always something popping up.
If we didn't head out of town for a few months every winter I'd can everything, but when we leave we shut down the entire house and the mason jars would
The government is always up to something. I doubt that they practice all that they preach to us.
The only way to get kids out of school would be to home-school them. Homeschooling is a great way to go, but almost impossible to do because most households have both parents working.
Schools are teaching a lot of shit besides what should be taught. Some of the stuff that our teenage grandkids tell us is going on during the school day is off of the charts.