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Your
food might be laden with toxic plastic fibers. That's
right: in the first ever study of its kind, researchers at the
Environment Agency Austria found microplastics in human waste.
How did it get there? One way is through farming practices in
places like the UK, where the government actually
allows farmers to include plastic in up to 0.15% of farmed
animals' feed. This is largely because unused human food, including Mars candy bars
and bread loaves, is then repurposed into becoming animal
feed — even while it is still wrapped in
plastic.
As a result, scientists estimate
that more than 50% of people around the world might have
microplastics on their dinner plates, in their guts, and
therefore in their stools. Even worse, researchers suspect
that these microplastics could have a serious effect on our
immune systems and harm patients with gastrointestinal
diseases in particular. During an ongoing deadly pandemic,
that's really bad news. Neither animals nor humans
should be eating plastic. That's a no-brainer. Please sign the petition to demand that the U.K.
Food Standards Agency ban the use of any plastic in the feed
of animals raised for human consumption!
Thank you for all that you do,
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Miranda
The Care2 Petitions Team
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P.S. Plastics
in food could have dangerous implications both for human
health and for the animals ingesting these toxins first. Whether you are motivated by protecting human
health, animal health, or both, please sign this petition
today. |
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