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PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods

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450 points homebrewer | 6 comments | 24 Jun 25 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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eestrada ◴[24 Jun 25 15:35 UTC] No.44367349[source]▶
The most disturbing is "Raw Cow Milk from Farm in Glass". It still is loaded with plastic, even though it is one of the least processed things on the list.

My only question is was the cow milked by hand or by machine? The tubing in a milking machine almost certainly contains plastic.

https://www.plasticlist.org/product/29

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1. giantg2 ◴[24 Jun 25 15:44 UTC] No.44367453[source]▶
Many livestock feeds have some level of plastic in them.
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2. dehrmann ◴[24 Jun 25 16:26 UTC] No.44367904[source]▶
Hay is often bound up into bales with plastic twine. Cattle happily eat bits on accident. They used to use wire, but that caused a much more serious problem for the cattle.
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3. giantg2 ◴[24 Jun 25 16:55 UTC] No.44368260[source]▶
They used to use natural twines like jute, which was better. They really don't eat much of the plastic stuff. The larger pieces of it do kill them (choking, cholic, etc).
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4. kylebenzle ◴[24 Jun 25 16:57 UTC] No.44368280[source]▶
I visited the largest pig farm in Ohio and they grind up bags of old dog food, plastic bags and everything. Literally pallets full of expired food, just dumped into the grinder. Then they spread the waste and sell it as organic fertilizer, plastic is now everything.
5. kylebenzle ◴[24 Jun 25 16:59 UTC] No.44368302{3}[source]▶
Now we will wrap the bales in 5 to 10 lb of plastic each, so they last longer!
6. CalRobert ◴[24 Jun 25 17:29 UTC] No.44368611[source]▶
Silage uses insane amounts of plastic wrap and then is left in direct sunlight to decay