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6 Studies Reveal Critical Health Risks From Plastic

According to six studies in a special section of the October 2008 issue of Environmental Research, exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates and flame retardants (PBDEs) are strongly associated with adverse health effects on humans and laboratory animals.

Plastic products contain "endocrine disrupting chemicals" that can block the production of the male sex hormone testosterone, mimic the action of the sex hormone estrogen, and interfere with thyroid hormone.

Two articles report very similar changes in male reproductive organs in rats and humans related to fetal exposure to phthalates. Two articles show that fetal exposure to BPA or PBDEs disrupts normal development of the brain and behavior in rats and mice. And two more articles provide data that these chemicals are massively contaminating the oceans and causing harm to aquatic wildlife.



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We avoid plastic as far as our food is concerned as much as possible even to the extent that the feed and water containers for our hens are not plastic. We figure that even plastic that leaches into the food and water our hens eat and drink, could end up in the eggs we eat.
 
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The unfortunate part, Mama Brear, is that some of the organic food we purchase for them comes in plastic bags. I wish those folks that set the organic standards would see the light and ban plastic as a storage medium for organic food including animal feed.

            
 
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Aaltrude

Awesome intuition on the feeding containers for your hens.  I am sure you are correct.  Our cat eats out of stoneware bowls when she's not outside eating "naturally" lol :-)
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