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The most disturbing is "Raw Cow Milk from Farm in Glass". It still is loaded with plastic, even though it is one of the least processed things on the list. My
by eestrada 1y ago
The most disturbing is "Raw Cow Milk from Farm in Glass". It still is loaded with plastic, even though it is one of the least processed things on the list.
My only question is was the cow milked by hand or by machine? The tubing in a milking machine almost certainly contains plastic.
https://www.plasticlist.org/product/29 https://www.plasticlist.org/product/29
- xnx 1y agoFortunately, raw cow milk is unnecessary for humans (good for baby cows though!) and easy to avoid.
- eestrada 1y agoI bring up raw milk because it is minimally processed (I don't even consume it personally). I used it as an example because it shows how much plastic is embedded in the food chain and ecosystem by looking at one of the least processed items on the list.
- giantg2 1y agoMany livestock feeds have some level of plastic in them.
- dehrmann 1y agoHay is often bound up into bales with plastic twine. Cattle happily eat bits on accident. They used to use wire, but that caused a much more serious problem for the cattle.
- giantg2 1y agoThey used to use natural twines like jute, which was better. They really don't eat much of the plastic stuff. The larger pieces of it do kill them (choking, cholic, etc).
- kylebenzle 1y agoNow we will wrap the bales in 5 to 10 lb of plastic each, so they last longer!
- CalRobert 1y agoSilage uses insane amounts of plastic wrap and then is left in direct sunlight to decay
- kylebenzle 1y agoI visited the largest pig farm in Ohio and they grind up bags of old dog food, plastic bags and everything. Literally pallets full of expired food, just dumped into the grinder. Then they spread the waste and sell it as organic fertilizer, plastic is now everything.
- cyberax 1y agoMilk is really great at extracting plasticizers from plastic. It contains natural fats and emulsifiers, after all. I'd expect that it can pull all kinds of chemicals from the milking equipment.
- purple_ferret 1y agoNo chance any commercially available milk is getting hand milked.
- 9rx 1y ago> even though it is one of the least processed things on the list. It is in a glass bottle, so maybe not the greatest example: https://www.sciencealert.com/glass-bottles-actually-contain-more-microplastics-scientists-find https://www.sciencealert.com/glass-bottles-actually-contain-... Straight from the cow would be far more interesting with respect to what you are bringing up, albeit beyond the scope of the broader discussion.