MAHA vs Microplastics – To Ensure the First, Get Rid of the Second!
American children are being sickened by toxic partisan ideology.
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If Americans are ever to be healthy again, an effective response to ubiquitous microplastics will be essential. Recent confirmation hearings of the MAHA maven Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. focused on his supposed vaccine and abortion positions while mainly ignoring his opening statement centered on American diets. Industrially-backed officials may thrust their ostrich heads in the political sands, but America’s babies and children are left exposed to toxic chemicals in the meantime – especially microplastics.
Chicken Little Sanders Panders
Bernie Sanders is on the record accepting Big Pharma money while condemning Kennedy for onesies. The Vermont Senator’s legacy will be his overt avoidance of considering Kennedy’s strong message about chronic diseases caused by ultra-processed foods, especially in children. Elizabeth Warren worried more about RFK, Jr. suing pharmaceutical companies than she did about Americans’ children’s health.
The US obesity and cancer epidemic is an incontrovertible scourge. Politicians blinded by partisan rancor will learn in due course that their Henny Penny antics against Kennedy’s vaccine stance will be remembered by American families when the scale of food toxins causing illness comes home to roost. Much of Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism about COVID-19 interventions – of which Sanders, et al., spoke nary a peep – has been confirmed, not debunked.
Studies increasingly demonstrate toxic threats to developing children’s bodies from microplastics and chemicals called phthalates (plasticizers) used in plastic containers and food service gloves. A recent study of human brains found an average equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics per brain, an increase of 50% in eight years. A 2023 study estimated that humans are inhaling the equivalent of a credit card per week of microplastics.
Insane in the Membrane
While speculative fearmongering about “emerging” bird flu or the perils of raw milk abound, the evidence of the harm to the human heart, brain, vital organs, and respiratory system caused by phthalates and microplastics emerged years ago but remains unaddressed. Invisible plastic particulates and the chemicals they contain abound like a swirling potion of unseen mini-viruses that kill slowly through cancers, obesity, thyroid problems, birth defects, hormone imbalance, hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes, and are suspected links to autism, dementia, and unhealthy gut microbiomes.
Plastics in synthetic fibers, plastic wraps, degrading consumer products, rubber tire dust, and other sources swirl around with pesticides, food additives, pharmaceuticals, and a plethora of manmade ecotoxins in the water, air, soil, oceans, and foods that are humans’ life source. Stronger regulatory oversight is required to stop the spigot of these toxins, especially in the furiously funded push for global renewables manufacturing, which will kill far more humans than carbon dioxide or climate change.
As Liberty Nation News explained in 2019:
“If America (especially its conservatives, who once championed the issue of conservation) set aside its warming squabble in order to assess its growing pollution threat, it would better recognize the looming menace that is not waiting 12 years to strike. Republicans sacrifice nothing and gain much in human health and political capital by addressing these problems. Most pollution remediation will reduce global warming in tandem (just in case it is real).
“All of this ‘activity’ is decidedly anthropogenic: None of it depends on a measure of heat to calculate damage. Bickering over the warming effects of this accumulating ecotoxicity, we echo Nero as we play debate-team fiddle while the birds and bees die and our children burn in radiation treatments.”
Cows vs Microplastics
The attack on cows calls to replace them with fake meats created from GMO mono-cultured crops in toxin-spewing factories using gleaming steel vats, plastic tubing, and endless gadgetry. Solar panels depend on Chinese coal plants and are a plastic disposal nightmare. Fiberglass wind turbines hailed as salvific are ecological disasters standing in mute testimony to stupefying ignorance and anthropogenic hubris. EVs require cobalt and lithium mining, irrevocably destroying whole ecosystems, and generate 30-40% more toxic rubber tire dust than gas-powered cars, polluting oceans and air with poisonous microplastics at an accelerating rate.
Oh, but the carbon, and the agriculture, and the woodstoves – but not the lawnmowers, the antlike lines of cars to ski areas, the flat screen TVs, computers, iPhones, golf courses, fireworks, and air travel that spew toxins like Greta Thunberg with a megaphone. Cows, pigs, and chickens – but not dogs, parrots, or kittens. Researchers claim some 350,000 synthetic chemicals and microplastics are invisibly intermingling in the environment, a fifty-fold increase from 1950, expected to triple by 2050! Something is indeed rotten, and it is not confined to Denmark.
Groceries and fast foods are widely tainted with perchlorate, aka rocket fuel. A Consumer Reports study found the highest levels of these toxins in children’s and baby foods. Bernie Sanders avoids this very discussion in favor of rants about onesies. The MAHA message that Kennedy eloquently raised in his opening Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing fell deftly on deaf, unhearing ears.
MAHA for All Children!
What might a Robert Kennedy HHS stewardship look like? Consider the regulatory record of the FDA and EPA he may soon oversee. Kennedy has accused these and other agencies of being captured by industry interests that profit from selling cheap, ultra-processed foods and pharmaceutical companies that peddle medicines as cures. The MSM onslaught and circus-show disgrace of attacks on the last Kennedy left standing are the death throes of a threatened corporate cabal desperate to maintain its despotic domination of the entities charged with protecting America’s children. Many of these toxic chemicals remain in the environment forever.
Americans don’t have that much time to reverse course!
(Originally published at Liberty Nation News.)
I agree with everything you say. But if we're really going to help families raise their kids with healthier food as free as possible from all the toxins, it's got to start with parents and kids learning how to cook. It has driven me crazy since I was in public high school, how little value has been placed on the survival arts.
When I was in 12th grade here in Santa Barbara (1970), I signed up for Home Ec/Food. My counselor said it would be a waste of my time, I was “too smart” for that. I insisted. And it was the best class I took in high school. It also gave me a very cynical view of the Left taking over education. Because I was required to take a course called “American Problems” (I kid you not) that semester.
That course was all about how awful America's with its poverty, exploitation of indigenous cultures, ruination of the environment, etc., etc. I agreed with much of it - I was a hippie - but the class was just depressingly passive anger-feeding. The students taking it were all college bound.
Then I'd go over to my Foods class. The class was entirely made up of working class kids, who were going to go to our City College and then right to jobs, except me. Our teacher was great. She actually lectured us on how important it is to cook our own meals. She would give us food stamps and a budget and requirements for buying for a healthy meal. (You had to buy real ingredients not Ding Dongs). We'd be sent across the street to the market to buy the ingredients, then come back and learn what to do with them. Granted the health food organic store was too far away near UCSB fr the class, but our teacher did encourage us to buy from it. It was all about taking control of what you put in your body.
Then Home Ec got squeezed out of our education system just when it was most needed, when families split up and moms were too busy to cook and instead of addressing this, the answer was “more processed fast food.”
This really angers me. Families are told they don't have enough time to cook, but that's just fast food marketing. My mom grew up during the Great Depression. Her mom had to go to work when her dad died early. Her granny took over the home. I looked over my great granny's recipes. My mom grew up on homemade beef and chicken broth, and sucked the marrow. Eggs delivered by farmers. Chickens her granny plucked. My mom lived to be almost 96 and the doctors did studies of her brain because she was so sharp. There was next to no diminishment. No micro plastic. Contrast that with twenty-somethings today.
I believe in MAHA. But it's going to take more than regulations. They destroyed healthy home cooking and we need to get that back in our schools.
My apologies for this long comment - you touched on something I'm angry about.
The same line of “reasoning” that produces such statements as “Oh, but the carbon, and the agriculture, and the woodstoves – but not the lawnmowers, the antlike lines of cars to ski areas, the flat screen TVs, computers, iPhones, golf courses, fireworks, and air travel that spew toxins like Greta Thunberg with a megaphone. Cows, pigs, and chickens – but not dogs, parrots, or kittens.” Is the same “reasoning” that also decided that the C19 “virus” spreads in churches but not massive well funded protests, spreads in mom and pop farm stands but not in Wallmart, spreads during during the wee hours of night but not during today ( virus gotta sleep too ), spreads at Thanksgiving dinners but not at strip clubs…. So this is not reasoning, this tyranny.