A new book called Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too talks about the dangers of plastic, as well as the benefits of avoiding it. The author, Beth Terry, decided to give up plastic after seeing a photo of a dead albatross whose rib cage was full of ingested trash.

Among the topics she covers, one in particular seems pretty scary: the number of plastics in the food we eat. Here are just a few...

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Yum! That must be why the yogurt stays so white!

ugh. the sky falling! the sky is falling!

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs [www.fakesteve.net]

Actually, it might be titanium dioxide that keeps your yogurt white. Perhaps best known as the stuff that makes sunscreen and house paint so white and opaque, it's sometimes added to food, because it's effective and cheap and inert. Word on the street is, it's not required to be listed on the ingredients label. I can't find proof of that, though.

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That's a lot of pesto.

My daughter couldn't survive without the 34 grams of polyethylene glycol she consumes daily. She could never consume enough fiber to make up for it.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

I've seen titanium dioxide listed on a horseradish label—from a company that apparently didn't believe in just plain old horseradish. It also had kelgin (from seaweed) and another chemical I can't remember, but we used all that stuff in wall coverings production when i was in that biz.

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Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkes.

Western Massachusetts

Titanium dioxide is inert
the potential "problem" with it is particle size.

poor little cancer prone mice had troubles with being fed the equivalent of shovels full of the stuff.


I still don't want paint pigment in my food, although skim milk does look king of nasty without it.

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I'm tired of worrying about every action of my life. I've survived so far living with lead paint, dioxides and plastic. A bus will probably get me before plastic does.

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I'm tired of worrying about every action of my life. I've survived so far living with lead paint, dioxides and plastic. A bus will probably get me before plastic does.

Fred

So the problem is the plastic and not the people using it.