*[Enwl-eng] Now serving for dinner: plastic-filled meat

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            UK Farmers can legally feed their animals plastic, and it's showing up in our food. Plastic doesn't belong on anybody's plate! 
                     
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                  Your food might be laden with toxic plastic fibers. That's right: in the first ever study of its kind, researchers at the Environment Agency Austria found microplastics in human waste. How did it get there? One way is through farming practices in places like the UK, where the government actually allows farmers to include plastic in up to 0.15% of farmed animals' feed. This is largely because unused human food, including Mars candy bars and bread loaves, is then repurposed into becoming animal feed — even while it is still wrapped in plastic. 

                  As a result, scientists estimate that more than 50% of people around the world might have microplastics on their dinner plates, in their guts, and therefore in their stools. Even worse, researchers suspect that these microplastics could have a serious effect on our immune systems and harm patients with gastrointestinal diseases in particular. During an ongoing deadly pandemic, that's really bad news. Neither animals nor humans should be eating plastic. That's a no-brainer. Please sign the petition to demand that the U.K. Food Standards Agency ban the use of any plastic in the feed of animals raised for human consumption! 

                  Thank you for all that you do, 

                         Miranda
                        The Care2 Petitions Team 
                       
                           

                  P.S. Plastics in food could have dangerous implications both for human health and for the animals ingesting these toxins first. Whether you are motivated by protecting human health, animal health, or both, please sign this petition today. 
                  
                    
           
     




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From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts 
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2021 7:04 PM
Subject: Now serving for dinner: plastic-filled meat



  
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