[ExI] nutrition - phthlates

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> ​I do take responsibility:  no fast food (not for decades), no frozen
> foods (only simple vegetables and ice cream, of course - no additives), no
> pizza frozen or otherwise, and so on.  Very little restaurant food - yes, I
> do cook.
>

​I do grow a lot of my food and realize that most of you can't​.  Many
people can't cook or won't learn how, or don't have time, or go contrary
"Well, everything is bad for you and you have to die of
something.........." and thus just buy or eat anything they like.

​Basic problem:  all of this is just way too big for a person to handle, to
make some kind of influence on​, and so we just read the paper and wag our
heads and thrust them into the sand.

bill w

> ​
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