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More accurately, I'm doing a pretty good job of killing myself. I was born pre-EPA when the United States was a toxic waste dump. DDT. MTBE. Red Dye #2. Cyclamate as an artificial sweetener. Cigarette packs didn't have a surgeon general warning on them. Riding a bicycle without a helmet. Lawn Darts. Lead paint and leaded gasoline. Asbestos everywhere. Cars without seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck.
It's a miracle I'm still alive.
What an interesting view of the 50's/60's! I've never thought of it that way. But since you mention dumps, it reminds me that the Bay Area towns back then were busy filling in the Bay with municipal dumping. Berkeley gained some extra real estate that way. As a result, the Save The Bay movement was born, and all the landfill dumping was stopped.
Weed-killing chemicals in their ice cream? That explains why hippies love B&J so much. "Like, whoa, there's like, chemicals in here, man. Maybe we can try smoking Cherry Garcia, see what happens, bro."
More accurately, I'm doing a pretty good job of killing myself. I was born pre-EPA when the United States was a toxic waste dump. DDT. MTBE. Red Dye #2. Cyclamate as an artificial sweetener. Cigarette packs didn't have a surgeon general warning on them. Riding a bicycle without a helmet. Lawn Darts. Lead paint and leaded gasoline. Asbestos everywhere. Cars without seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck.
It's a miracle I'm still alive.
At 81 (82 in six weeks), I'm not about to give up my occasional pint of B&J's New York Super Fudge Chunk. If all of the above didn't kill me, what have I got to lose now? Fist bump, GeoffD. (Gotta watch those handshake germs)lol
My premise is not to blindly believe studies that may have been engineered with financial enrichment in mind instead of honest scientific review.
Not following your point.
your giving your point of view which I agree with too.. but we have to wake up to whats going on with food and read more of whats in packaged foods and judge for ourselves.
Playing with mercury was fun. I have an old thermometer. Maybe I'll break it and chase the little silver balls across the floor.
when they passed the vial of mercury around in grade school, a lot of it would end up in the pencil trays throughout the classroom where it provided countless hours of bemusement being pushed back and forth while Mrs. Vance droned on about George Washington or someone, doing something or other, at some time in ancient history
Playing with mercury was fun. I have an old thermometer. Maybe I'll break it and chase the little silver balls across the floor.
How old is your thermometer? Some laboratory thermometers do contain mercury, but most medical ones don't anymore.
Wiki:
"In the 1990s it was decided that mercury-based thermometers
were too risky to handle; the vigorous swinging needed to "reset" a
mercury maximum thermometer makes it easy to accidentally break it
and spill the moderately poisonous mercury.
Mercury thermometers have largely been replaced by electronic digital thermometers,
or, more rarely, thermometers based on liquids other than mercury
(such as galinstan, coloured alcohols and heat-sensitive liquid crystals)."
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with municipal dumping. Berkeley gained some extra real estate that way. As a result, the Save The Bay movement was born, and all the landfill dumping was stopped.
