The other day I happened across a commercial that was attempting to sell reusable metal containers for people to tote water around instead of buying plastic bottles. They made all kinds of pitches to induce you into buying such a container:
- Plastic bottles clog up landfills for eternity
- Ounce for ounce you pay so much more for bottled water than if you just drank from the tap
- Most bottled water is, in face, just glorified tap water anyway
- Recycling plastic bottles releases toxic chemicals which are apparently just as bad for the environment as having them occupy landfils
- Plastic bottles have been known to leach a synthetic estrogen, which can cause breast and other cancers.
Hmmmmm. So a plastic bottle can cause the body to absorb synthetic estrogen. The absorption of estrogen is, according to this source, a bad thing, because it can cause cancer.
But, ya know, there’s all those contraceptive “birth control” pills out there that are chock full of synthetic estrogen, and other hormones. But it’s okay, there’s no cancer risk there.
Am I missing something?
June 16, 2009 at 8:44 am
Don’t mess with the pelvis! The funniest part is when the conflicting PC ideologies enter The Steel Cage. Humans are scum, save the earth vs. The Earth is scum, save my pelvis. I.e., it’s OK that all these estrogens are now in the waterways screwing with the fish from contracepted urine, because fish had it comin’ anyway! But don’t let DDT save millions of lives because it screws with [insert favorite animal here]. For me, it’s the fuzzy koala.