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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
February 4, 2017
I was taught as a child never to eat or drink anything hot from a plastic container. It should be obvious that this is not safe, but the industry had so much power, this information has been suppressed for decades.
Instead of telling the truth about plastics, industry pushed utter gibberish about the dangers of meat and fats generally, pushing people into processed foods, all of which contain their own chemical cocktails.
Finally, some plastic-truth is coming to light.
RT:
The next time you get a craving for a greasy burger from the drive-thru, you may want to reconsider. A new study has found that fast food packaging contains cancer-causing chemicals – showing that the risk of quick meals goes beyond trans fats and calories.
It’s no secret that fast food contains a huge amount of oils, but in an effort to repel those oils, the packaging is actually posing a huge risk to consumers, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters.
If you look at the wrapper of McDonald’s burgers, it will turn clear where it gets greasy. This is plastic.
They do this because paper wrappers, when soaked with grease, will just tear.
The official burger of the Alt-Right, however – Wendy’s – uses a type of aluminum for their wrappers.
I cannot vouch that these are 100% safe – and burgers generally aren’t great, given the bread, which is a nasty carb – but I think they have to be better than the plastic ones of McDonald’s and Burger King.
The Quarter Pounder at McDonald’s, however, comes in a cardbord box, which is much better.
They could all be using these boxes. Or they could use a type of wax paper, that would handle the grease and not contain these dangerous chemicals, but it would be more expensive, and modern consumerism is all about the cheapest fix.
In an effort to determine whether the wrappers contained harmful chemicals, the researchers gathered 400 take-out packaging samples from fast food restaurants across the US.
They then analyzed them for fluorinated chemicals, a family of chemicals which has been linked to kidney and testicular cancer, elevated cholesterol, decreased fertility, thyroid problems, changes in hormone functioning in adults, and adverse developmental effects and decreased immune response in children.
Forty-six percent of food contact papers and 20 percent of paperboard were found to contain the harmful chemicals.
The cardboard (“paperboard”) that contains it are presumably these newer McDonald’s boxes, which are thinner and super-glossy on the outside.
These were introduced a few years ago, and it varies whether a store uses them, I believe. That, or they are used for Big Macs and not QPs.
I’m not an expert on fast food packaging trends, but I am a layman expert on carcinogenic plastics.
But the problem wasn’t just contained to the wrappers. The chemicals were found to migrate from the packaging to the food itself.
“Food contact material is a direct route of exposure to these chemicals for us, it’s as if you were drinking them in your drinking water,” Tom Brunton of the Green Science Policy Institute, which was involved in the study, told CBS Bay Area.
Study co-author Graham Peaslee, a physicist at the University of Notre Dame, said he was “very surprised to find these chemicals in food contact materials from so many of the samples we tested,” according to a Green Science Policy Institute press release.
How could anyone be surprised by that?
You have hot, absorbent food products laying against a perfluorinated compound-based product.
Why would anyone be surprised that this is not safe?
He went on to note that the chemicals are “persistent and some bioaccumulate in the body,” and stressed that “safer non-fluorinated alternatives” are available.
Co-author Dr. Arlene Blum of UC Berkeley and the Green Science Policy Institute also stressed that “we can stop using fluorinated chemicals where they are not necessary, such as in food packaging, and all be healthier.”
Yes, as I say, it is just a matter of capitalist companies saving an extra fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a cent in an environment that is without proper government regulation on food safety.
Donald Trump has shown that he is willing to engage both left and right style policies in order to do what is best for the people. Regulations on food safety are obviously traditionally associated with the left, but they are something as a right-winger that I whole-heartedly endorse.
Cheese burgers are never going to be healthy (mainly due to the bread, and to the cheese, not the meat itself), but there is no reason they have to be completely poisonous. Kids like them, it’s a fun time to go to McDonald’s – why not make it safe for the people?
