[ExI] nutrition - phthlates

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:32 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> So. to add to our list of possible culprits, Gov., science, Big Food, we
> need to add Big Chem.  They fight every bill to restrict, test, get rid of
> some chemicals we find in our diets without any FDA approval needed because
> they are not foods (I am supposing this - I don't really know if this is
> true).  They may leak into our foods from packaging, from the plastic tubes
> used in dairies (in the article above).
>

At some point we need to accept responsibility for buying those products,
electing those politicians, funding those scientists, etc., given what we
now know about what they've done and continue to do. Fool me once, shame on
me, right? Who's the fool who keeps expecting the government to fix things
or big business to clean up its act?


> We can blame the gov. for one thing for sure:  not enough studies are
> funded that test what goes into our food and drink.
>

We can also blame them for not requiring full disclosure on labels.

Like someone here--sorry, can't remember who--just said, our increasing
health problems look to be like the human equivalent of colony collapse
disorder, with not a single easily-identifiable cause or solution, but a
large suite of problems: some known, some not yet known, some easily
fixable, and some not.

-Dave
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