Dioxin, plastics, microwave dangers, truth or hoax?

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[Stormcrow]

"He said we might remember when some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper.

The dioxin problem is one of the reasons."

Considering that fast food restaurants moved away from foam containers because of heavy enviro-whacko pressure complaining that our landfills were about to all be overflowed with those little foam boxes, not because of some dioxin scare, the author completely lost me right there.

[Jeff Chandler]

I LOVE the taste of dioxin. I seek it out, in fact, to the point of removing leftovers from Pyrex dishes and microwaving them in Tupperware.

[KarlInOhio]

I'm going to wrap apples in plastic wrap before microwaving them. I want to see if I'm killed by the dioxin leeching in from the wrap or the cyanide leeching out of the seeds.

Have these people ever figured out that the poison is in the dose. We can detect substances in quantities well under a part per billion. Just because you can detect it doesn't mean that it can hurt you.

Dioxin is a byproduct of certain industrial processes such as incineration and bleaching. Humans carry small amounts of dioxin in their fat and blood, but the myth of “deadly dioxin” began with an experiment with guinea pigs, who were fed 1,000 times as much before they died.

Even though large amounts killed guinea pigs, the facts are:

How many of those guinea pigs were poisoned by the dioxin compared to the number suffering from total structural failure (i.e. they popped) from the amount fed to them? How many more were killed by lab workers accidently dropping bags of dioxin laced guinea pig chow on top of them?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

H2O is deadly, just try breathing it straight, it kills every time.

[Paleo Conservative]

You need to read this book. It debunks lots of this garbage.

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[kralcmot]

thanks

see my previous post

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