Health

many additives, sweeteners, grease, salt, coloring and preservatives. Fast food and junk food have gone international in the last few decades. I've seen Burger King stands in 19th century train stations in France and read about the craze for buckets of KFC in Saudia Arabia. In addition to fast food additives, the packaging contains unhealthy chemicals.

- "The highest rates of early onset cancers in 2019 were in North America, Oceania and western Europe." - (The Guardian).

PFAS, 'Forever Chemicals' in non- stick Teflon- like coatings (Dupont-Dow) are used to repel grease and water for drink cups, pizza boxes, wrappers and styrofoam cartons. PFAS are also in coatings for 'stain and water resistant' carpet, clothing, many other consumer products. They have been used since the 1950s and recent news coverage exposes how widespread they are, found in US water supplies, rivers, wells and more. (Film 'Dark Waters' with Mark Ruffalo, 2019).

Until the last 20 years I'd never heard of so many people in their late 20s, middle age and early 60s with Crohn's Disease, gastrointestinal conditions, autoimmune disorders, colon and other cancers. They're non smokers and non drinkers, with no obesity or adverse lifestyle factors and little to no family history of cancer.

It's past time to address harmful heath and environmental toxins. News more recently has also focused on how humans (animal and plant life too) now have plastic fibers in their bodies from decades long use of plastic bottles and thousands of plastic consumer products. A toxic mess in need of clean up.

- Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan. The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals. It stars Mark Ruffalo as Bilott, along with Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)