i found this to be an interesting talk by a specialist on the way risks from these things are ranked and where the state of currect research is: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=vocvz6N6faI
the important takeaway for me was that "micro"plastics aren’t exactly microscopic
since those are news feeds rather than people, i gotta shout out this Firefox add-on for finding people’s mastodon accounts after visiting their blog or other pages. it’s really cool: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/streetpass-for-mastodon/
edit-homepage with other platforms: https://streetpass.social/
some high-volume automated aggregator news feeds:
and a personal fav: https://mastodon.social/@archaeology@mstdn.social
i agree. some values are universal, like what should be considered cruel, but slaughtering pigs is pretty cruel too (i eat them anyways!). to me, what’s funny here is how privileged first world people just hate to see how the hot dog is made, so to speak.
it’s like privileged people hating to simply see homeless people in cities even though the system that makes people homeless is necessary to keep the high property values that they benefit from. the mere witness of the cruelty we benefit from in modern society makes the privileged one feel like a victim.
this guy always gives some good context for this kind of sensational diet/health claim: https://proxitok.pussthecat.org/@roblapham/video/7252049382957255942
so much chinese text