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Convenience is Your Enemy
Participating in our own demise
The photo accompanying this article is of piles of trashed single-use plastics. The fact that every human placenta tested in a recent scientific study contained microplastics is disturbing.
The concentration of microplastics in placentas is particularly troubling, he said, because the tissue has only been growing for eight months (it starts to form about a month into a pregnancy). “Other organs of your body are accumulating over much longer periods of time.” — Matthew Campen, PhD, Regents’ Professor in the UNM Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
According to the researchers who conducted the study, the most prevalent polymer in placental tissue was polyethylene, which is used to make plastic bags and bottles. It accounted for 54% of the total plastics.
Who’s pushing all these plastics on consumers? The billionaire oligarchs, of course. Will you take 4 minutes to discover the connection by watching the following video?
