Health and diet - How plastics end up in out food supply

We may find it easy to take for granted the fact that food is readily available to anyone who has any significant means. We rarely think about how specialized those areas of food production are. We are so disconnected in fact, that most of us cannot say for certain what exactly is in the foods we eat.

Unfortunately, many of the foods we eat are packaged in plastics. What is even more disturbing is that these environmentally disastrous plastics end up in the waist pile and eventually into our natural environment like or oceans.

It has become clear that the oceans are teaming with pieces of harmful plastic, large and small from old toys to medical supplies, to computer parts and many other things made of the material.

Much of this plastic inadvertently gets into the food chain of fish and other seafaring creatures. We then eat those fish and it is believed that many of our modern health problems stem from these plastics in our diet, including diabetes, cancers, obesity, nervous system disorders and much more.

If we witnessed this "plastic soup" firsthand, would we not do whatever was within our power to boycott plastics and make sure they were recycled so as to not end up in the ocean.

The problem is that we read about these things and we fail to connect ourselves to the problem. We fail to see our efforts to resist these temptations as effective. Such as voting, it is easy for us to take it for granted that someone else will vote in out best interest, when this is not always the case.

Reading the label is obviously not sufficient if you can't tell by simply looking at the average American waistline. Most people will actually be cynical towards many things that might actually help them.

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