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Lisa Kaas Boyle
Environmental Attorney

Plastic Is Food Poisoning
Posted: 04/28/2014 2:41 pm EDT Updated: 04/28/2014 3:59 pm EDT

Take a look at these photographs of albatross carcasses on Midway Atoll
in the middle of the Pacific. These birds probably died of starvation
since their stomachs were full of the plastic from the nearby collection
of plastic pollution known commonly as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The albatross are unintentionally killing their young by feeding them
plastic, mistaking the colorful bits for real food.

What does this have to do with YOU and ME? First, that is our waste out
there. And secondly, we are also being killed by plastic, just like the
albatross. Though we are not in acute danger of dying with bellies full
of bottle caps and lighters, we are poisoning ourselves with plastic
over time. The seminal book on the threats of plastic poisoning to our
survival is called Our Stolen Future. Another excellent book about the
chemical dangers lurking in everyday plastic products is aptly called
Slow Death by Rubber Duck.

Your food is contaminated with toxic chemicals from plastics. These
chemicals you are eating and drinking are changing you on a cellular
level, altering your chromosomes in ways that can lead to infertility,
obesity, and cancer. For women, estrogenic mimicking chemicals can cause
breast cancer; for men, these chemicals cause prostrate cancer, reduced
penis and testicle size and low testosterone. These threats are not
hypothetical. They have been proven in the lab and demonstrated in real
world studies.

One of the most important studies on BPA was a Rhesus Monkey study
(Patricia Hunt, University of Washington). We share 95% of our DNA with
Rhesus monkeys so when they are shown to have genetic damage from BPA,
we can be pretty sure the same thing is happening to us. The study
provides the strongest evidence yet that estrogen-like chemicals like
BPA alter chromosomes, increasing the risk of birth defects and
miscarriages. The study used levels of BPA similar to those to which
humans are exposed though our food and drink and many consumer products
including receipts. The study showed that cellular damage can hit three
generations at once. BPA can affect a pregnant mother, her unborn fetus,
and if that fetus is female, that fetus's future offspring.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207854109

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/43/17525.full.pdf+html

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/43/17525.full.pdf+html?with-ds=yes