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 stupifying 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!
