re: #474 ggt

Study: Most Plastics Leach Hormone-Like Chemicals

It’s the plastics! They are everywhere.

Seriously it is a concern the NIH is involved in a study to determine just how much of a concern it is.

Phthalates. Endocrine disruptors. Bad juju. Ubiquitous in the US. Other countries, not so much. Many have banned them.

en.wikipedia.org

You don’t *even* want to go to research on what endocrine disruptors have done to aquatic life in the Great Lakes and other study areas:

lakes.chebucto.org

For other impacts, there’s this:

enhs.umn.edu

Scary shit. Unintended impacts of the chemical industry.

((Note Dows’ former advertising tagline: “Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible!” True, but perhaps not what they intended.))