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OK back to business. Today I want to talk about plastics. Plastics are a vital part of our lives. The plastics industry is the gas and oil industry and are 5 out of 6 biggest companies in the world. So that means they are the most powerful in the world. So what we need to do is band together to fight against single use products that until today I used everyday. Plastic shopping bags, soda bottle, plastic cups and lids. We can make a difference. All it takes is a change in our attitude. Oh and by the way I have discovered that there is a ton of chemicals on heat sensitive paper they use in receipts that enter your body almost immediately through your skin so something else to worry about. I just brought that up because BPA is one harmful chemical you do not want in your body all though it can be found in approximately 93% of us in substantial amounts. BPA is in all your drinking bottles, All your baby bottles, and all your sippy cups. The worse part is Canada has outlawed BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups, and guess what, the companies made BPA free ones for them. So what the hell is are government doing. Nothing as usual. Did you know there are at least 13 chemicals in foods in the US that are banned in almost every county in the world but the US. Why because we bow down to big business. Our government doesn't give a crap about you or your kids unless they can make money from it like all the zero fat and low calorie food that had a whole slew of other chemicals that kill you and was found out to make you fatter. Imagine that. Why are we so scared of cholesterol but not BPA or brominated vegetable oil, sodium benzoate or dozens of other unnecessary chemicals in our food.

BPA is a chemical that was original produced as a birth control drug but it wasn't strong enough but they latter found a use in  . . . . you guessed it. Plastic or Polycarbonates to be specific. So you may say so what's the big deal. Well first of all it's an inhibitor and it causes all kinds of problems including diabetes. the inability to get pregnant and it is a large reason that females are developing at such a young age. Just look up BPA online and you'll find plenty of info that I can't relay as well as they can. So maybe it isn't the growth hormones in cattle or it might be but why add more problems to your child's life.

So all you have to do is stop handling receipt paper and stop drinking out of so many plastic bottles. Just a heads up and I know your not going to like this. Soda and water bottles are not safe at all as a matter of fact research has shown that if your water or soda bottle gets hot it releases enough crap that they are saying throw them away instead of drinking what's in them.. Oh did you know that they line aluminum cans with  . . . . .no don't say it . . . . . BPA and according to one lab test the highest BPA came from energy drinks. I don't know why, maybe the companies don't store their product in controlled environments.  So how hot was the warehouse  that they sat in or the back storage room or the delivery truck. Just something to think about. Even if we stop plastic bottles and handling receipts and stop using all one time use plastic we have another problem on a much larger scale

Millions of tons of plastic is in our oceans and plastic never goes away every plastic molecule every invented is still with us to this day. So big plastic becomes little plastic and then plastic sand and so on. When this plastic floats around it collects lots of other bad chemical such as DDT. IF you know anything about this crap you want to stay away from it. So you might say good plastic collects it. Isn't that at least one good thing. Well it might be if fish and birds wasn't eating this crap by the tons. A good example of this is at Midway. If your a history buff you know this was the turning point in the war against japan. It's a tiny island chain latterly in the middle of the ocean between the US and Japan. It is the place where all the currents collide and create this big bunch of plastics from all over the world. And they are finding dead animals at an alarming rate and these animals all have plastic inside of them. Well I don't know about you but I'm a apex predator so that means I eat stuff out of the ocean and your guessed it. all those chemical that came form plastic are adsorbed into the animals that eat it and the animals that eat them. The United states owns midway atoll and your not allowed to go there without permission and I saw that it took one person three years to get the paperwork just to go visit and see the devastation for herself. There is a full time staff of scantiest and volunteers that collect the plastic and send it to who knows. they had 40 thousand pounds of it or twenty tons of just plastic debris in one year and that's a drop in the bucket to how much is actually in our oceans.

So How are we going to start to fix this problem. Well there is no way to get all the plastic out of the ocean but I'm confident in time most of it will wash up some where and then it can be collected. what we have to do is cut it off at the source and this is where you come in. First of all stop handling those damn receipts and have them put them in the trash unless you need one to possible return something then handle it like it's toxic and wash your hands afterwards. Second this is stop buying and using one time use plastics. If we stop buying it, they will stop producing it. Get you some permanent shopping bags and put them in your car. Buy your family a soda maker that has bpa free plastic containers that can be reused for three years or drink tea in BPA free drinking cups. Oh and one thing I forgot. the hard plastic Sippy cups, get rin order them from a web sight that has BPA free. If you would really like to find out more there are several articles on the internet but here's one to get your started to show you what your up against.  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521141208.htm

You might find reports that say that BPA in food and drink is lower then what was determined by the government that the big corporations are paying. Some none government scientist have found that BPA had adverse affect on the baby making machines of the mice in levels a thousand times lower then recommended for you or you kids. The plastic companies didn't want you to know that so they tried to get the scientist to sign a piece of paper that wouldn't allow the research to come out until they decided it was time. The same law offices, spin doctors, advertising companies,  research company's and lobbyist  are working for plastic that used to work for the cigarette companies and they are using the same methods of covering up the truth. If it wasn't for whistle blowers we would all still be puffing away thinking wow Winston is toasted. Well the secret is out what are you going to do with it.