Canada @lemmy.ca RandAlThor @lemmy.ca 10 mo. ago

When you drink bottled water, you're drinking lots and lots of plastic particles

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I wouldnt be so quick to blame all of this on water bottles when a high percentage of all the food we consume is packaged in plastic and also the left overs sitting in the fridge.
- What do those have to do with microplastics found in bottled water?
  
  I am commenting on this section of the article:
  
  "We and others have shown that these nanoplastics can be internalized into cells and we know that nanoplastics carry all kinds of chemical additives that could cause cell stress, DNA damage and change metabolism or cell function."
  
  Somarelli said his own, yet-to-be-published work has found more than 100 "known cancer-causing chemicals in these plastics."
  
  And also
  
  What's disturbing, said University of Toronto evolutionary biologist Zoie Diana, is that "small particles can appear in different organs and may cross membranes that they aren't meant to cross, such as the blood-brain barrier."
  
  My point being that it's unlikely that bottled water is the only source of these plastics.
  
  Neither of the quotes you supplied make that claim.
  
  https://www.iflscience.com/microplastics-found-in-88-percent-of-sampled-food-from-sirloin-steaks-to-plant-based-burgers-72368
  
  https://oceanconservancy.org/news/its-not-just-seafood-new-study-finds-microplastics-in-nearly-90-of-proteins-sampled-including-plant-based-meat-alternatives/
  
  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230103-how-plastic-is-getting-into-our-food
  
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602623/
  
  https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/microplastics#microplastics-in-food
  
  Would you mind sharing links to prove your point? Let me know if you need more sources on micro plastics being spread through more ways than just water bottles. There are many results if you just search "micro plastics food".
  
  Scary shit. They've even found microplastics in the placentas of unborn fetuses.
  
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33395930/
  
  I do not have a point that needs sourcing. The article quite simply does not discuss other sources of microplastics. It does not dismiss them either.
  
  edit: Allow me to elaborate a little less formally. OP's initial comment straight up sounds like whatabaoutism by Big Bottled Water. It dismisses the microplastics in water bottles, pointing to other sources of microplastics. OP then claims that the article dismisses other sources, failing to provide any relevant quotes. Have I gone insane?
- Or you could just buy food from the produce section without plastic...

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