Yes, but look what it's done for the profits of the Coca-Cola company and PepsiCo!
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Ans let’s remember our friends at McDonnell-Douglas and Raytheon, huh? Record profits, people! Unprecedented geopolitical instability market opportunities!
So go on, get those microplastics in yer junk! Get ‘em in there! That’s right! We got maybe six years tops before this whole planet goes tits up, let’s move! Always Be Closing!
Personally, I buy my microplastics at my local spice market. It's more aromatic and flavorful for a quarter of the price of McCormick's shit. But hey, if you want shitty flavorless plastic in your dishes that's your choice.
I will have you know that I grew up on organic, free range microplastics, and hose water.
Microplastics are fine, but previous generations ate macroplastics, and they did just fine, so I include them in my diet as well.
Excellent commitment to the bit. Well done
Big oil attacking deez nuts
Headline: “Could it be microplastics?”
Story: “oh definitely. 100%. I mean, c’mon. Seriously, it’s SO microplastics it’s insane.”
Seeing the numbers of testes cited here as being an odd number makes me feel uncomfortable.
A friend of mine lost a testicle to cancer (he's in great shape these days). He said it only made the other one more potent.
Sure, but was the taste test double-blind and placebo controlled?
I've got a buddy with three so it all evens out (yes, I know that's not really how it works).
Apparently it doesn't all even out!
We're gonna need your friend to pick up another from ball-mart.
He has three testicles? Wow, that’s odd.
He does! And back in high school he loved to prove it.
You have to crack en egg or two to make an omelette. Or whatever the saying is.
Thanks for the mental image...
Wow… that sounds really bad for the economy
But Jordan Peterson told me Soy milk made me a girl, who am I supposed to believe! /s
(Obviously not Jordan Peterson or manosphere bullshit)
If soy milk made men into women, I'd have 3 vaginas by now. Vanilla Silk is delicious. 🤤
Children of Men almost had it right.
Still could.
Here we have men going infertile, whereas in the movie it is the women. Yes, they could follow, certainly. Placentas might not be viable because of all the microplastics, or something. I don't know as I am no babyologist.
Great film!!
petroleum derived microplastics are stored in the balls. Big Oil is sneaking into deez nutz
Test deez testes.
I don't have any microplastics in me. My plastics are huge!
The Guardian's story on this has more of the important details
The human testicles had been preserved and so their sperm count could not be measured. However, the sperm count in the dogs’ testes could be assessed and was lower in samples with higher contamination with PVC. The study demonstrates a correlation but further research is needed to prove microplastics cause sperm counts to fall.
The testes analysed were obtained from postmortems in 2016, with the men ranging in age from 16 to 88 when they died. “The impact on the younger generation might be more concerning” now that there is more plastic than ever in the environment, Yu said.
The study, published in the journal Toxicological Sciences, involved dissolving the tissue samples and then analysing the plastic that remained. The dogs’ testes were obtained from veterinary practices that conducted neutering operations.
The human testicles had a plastic concentration almost three times higher than that found in the dog testes: 330 micrograms per gram of tissue compared with 123 micrograms. Polyethylene, used in plastic bags and bottles, was the most common microplastic found, followed by PVC.
330 micrograms per gram
That seems like... a lot. Way more than I expected or am comfortable thinking about.
Just to clarify, 1 microgram is 0.001 milligrams, so 330 micrograms are 0.33 milligrams and 1 gram is made out of 1000 milligrams.
Last week it was Roundup.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/glyphosate-weedkiller-sperm
I promise that multiple things can affect sperm count.
I'm just pointing out that our balls are full of various toxic shit.
My bad, I read it as dismissive.
Easier to be read that way for sure, or maybe I'm just too cynical from all the comments I had to read for topics akin to this.
I hope this is true, as it would mean fertility rates would fall. (Right?)
No, it's obviously soy consumption
Here you dropped this: /s
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The ‘red flag’ of our consumptive lifestyles, they have reached the limits of the Earth - from the Mariana Trench to the tip of Mount Everest.
These tiny particles of decomposed plastic have seeped into clouds, and been found buried in archaeological remains believed to be ‘pristine’.
“The ubiquitous existence of microplastics and nanoplastics raises concerns about their potential impact on the human reproductive system,” the study, published in the journal Toxicological Sciences, states.
Sperm counts in western men have more than halved in the last few decades, with air pollution and exposure to pesticides frequently cited as factors.
“At the beginning, I doubted whether microplastics could penetrate the reproductive system,” Prof Xiaozhong Yu, one of the authors of the new study told the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
A smaller study in China last year also found microplastics in six human testes and 30 semen samples.
The original article contains 544 words, the summary contains 145 words. Saved 73%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
and all 47 testes from pet dogs.
A) nobody ask how they tested the dogs
B) How many humans were tested in total? I'm pretty sure we feed garbage to dogs.
The Guardian reported the dogs were from neutering operations and the humans from postmortem exams. Dogs get fed garbage meat meal but it's packaged largely in paper bags, metal tins, or only the big bag is plastic. Human food is often kept in plastic at every step and often heated in plastic too.