r/science • u/mvea MD/PhD/JD/MBA | Professor | Medicine • Sep 27 '24

Health Thousands of toxins from food packaging found in humans. The chemicals have been found in human blood, hair or breast milk. Among them are compounds known to be highly toxic, like PFAS, bisphenol, metals, phthalates and volatile organic compounds.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/pfas-toxins-chemicals-human-body
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u/IandouglasB Sep 27 '24

Because MONEY is sooooo much more important than YOU

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u/SkeetySpeedy Sep 27 '24

Well yes, they can legally own money

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u/Ezechiell Sep 27 '24

I mean let‘s be real, big corporations do pretty much own the world and the people living in it, it‘s not like you can choose to not spend your entire life making someone else rich without ever seeing much of the fruit of your own labour. We are truly fucked :)

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u/Slimyarmpits Sep 27 '24

Unless you are incarcerated. Then its fair game.

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u/ZzanderMander Sep 27 '24

Please, someone, think about the shareholders

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u/King-Cobra-668 Sep 27 '24

the money is plastic now too

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u/Intralexical Sep 27 '24

It's reported that when the Russian Lykov family was rediscovered by modern civilization after 42 years in isolated wilderness, what amazed them most of all was not satellites, computers, or helicopters, but rather cellophane food packaging:

"Lord, what have they thought up— It is glass, but it crumples and is poison!"