It isn’t just seafood that’s loaded with microplastic pollution. In a new study, scientists found microplastics in nearly 90 of sampled meats and meat-like alternatives – including seafood, chicken breasts, beef steaks, tofu, and plant-based burgers.
It’s become well-documented that seafood is often tainted with the presence of microplastics due to the shockingly high quantities of plastic in the planet’s oceans. For instance, a 2017 review found that regular eaters of fish and shellfish could be ingesting up to 11,000 microparticles a year.
However, until now, there’s been relatively little research into the prevalence of plastic in terrestrial protein sources, like beef and chicken.
To pry into the issue, scientists at Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto sampled 16 protein types, including highly processed protein products and minimally processed “fresh” products.
They should compare meat from cans, from plastic bags and fresh meat…get a live chicken and stab it a few times with a sample core auger. Right? How could we beat torture the animals before we eat them? Grinding them up using plastic bushings makes plastic particles, grinding them using stones makes stone particles. Finally grinding them using carbides and metals leaves carbide and metal particles!
We chew… maybe our methods of animal torture should include calcium carbonate tools, smashers, mushers, cutters, grinders, etc? All particles would then be made of stuff that is good for us.
I’m also curious if the source is microplastics in live animals or if it’s from processing.
For years, we got our farmers and hunters where we get our meat, search on your vicinity, it’s not only better, it’s cheaper in the long run. You’ll notice that you’ll eat less meat, but better one. Stop the supermarket overlords.
@sagrotan @MicroWave
There’s no way wildlife can replace industrial meat. That’s an extinction plan.
Yes. Microplastics is slower gray goo.
I keep hearing George Carlin’s old comedy routine about how we evolved because Mother Earth needed plastic for reasons, and now that we’ve made enough to last a very long time, she can get rid of us…
Y’all need to up your game
