Anyone else notice the samples are stored/delivered in a plastic bag. Like wtf??

I've taken prenatal vitamins for as long as I can remember because they're FDA regulated to actually contain the nutrients they claim to include. I never would've thought that could be a source for microplastics.

Separately, I always knew there was a reason those RXBars taste like plastic. /s

The samples are stored/delivered in a plastic bag. LMFAO wtf??

Is this TikTok or HN!

I know I promised not to, but I am indeed freaking out a little bit.

I will forever remember this list as the one that revealed that Shakeshack burgers have 5x microplastics than your average McD quarter pounder.

I've avoided Shakeshack ever since.

What are we complaining about? Is it about the industrialization, economy and jobs that produced plastics? How far do we want to go back? Industries came out of scientific advances and business, which came from social dynamics and foundational academics such as mathematics and logic, which in turn were a result of leisure time due to civilizations, settlements, more food availability, farming, tools etc. All this was inevitable and incremental. Nothing happened overnight. We didn't cause it. And we won't be doing anything to stop it.

There is a story in Hindu mythology about churning of the milk ocean, by gods and demons in cooperation, using a mountain as the churning rod, with an objective of extracting the nectar of immortality. After a great amount of churning, a great poison comes out which must be consumed, otherwise it ends the universe. Lord Shiva consumes it, but keeps it in his throat, to save himself and the universe. When the Nectar finally comes out, somehow gods trick the demons, to keep the nectar to themselves.

Sometimes it occurs to me that this story foretold the extraction of oil from ocean deeps, giving the luxuries to the developed world and pollution to the third world.