>become farmer for health reasons: >>>/out/1609055>radically change diet and life style>try to go all organic (just water and manures, not commercial "organic" pesticides/ferts)>try to get rid of all sources of plastic in my lifeI'm doing pretty good at it. Around 90% of the diet comes from what I grow/raise now.
>attain straw from company that sells straw bales to use as chicken litter>all straw comes with plastic baling twine now>the plastic baling twine also happens to be cut up into 2 inches sections in the straw, due to some processing method used when making the bales (WTF?)>didn't notice plastic bits until AFTER the straw was being composted and used in the gardens>plastic fibers are fucking everywhere now on the propertyMan, that pissed me the fuck off. It's been about 5 years now and I've been removing those plastic bits ever since and there's still a handful I find every time I till a bed. I switched to wood chips for chicken coop litter, which took care of the problem. Yes, plants do uptake and bioaccumulate leachates from plastic. It is one of the methods used to remove said leachates from contaminated soils.
My diet is pretty much,
no grains
no dairy
a little of poultry & fish
lots of tubers
lots of greens
lots of fruit
lots of legumes
lots of tree nuts
When I got rid of dairy and grain from my diet, my health skyrocketed.
>>11011503>BPA>Currently 90% does not use this coating.BPA is merely a well-studied chemical. The chemicals used to replace BPA have not been as well studied. As they get studied it is turning out that they too are not good for you. Essentially, plastic companies are hopping from one GRAS chemical to another trying to stay ahead of the study curve.
