News Video Report: Contaminating Our Food

[ourlongroad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3_cYZKksvI


Bisphenol A is found in most plastic food containers today. Not only is it found in plastic containers, but also in the lining of most cans. BPA is essentially a synthetic estrogen that enters the body when one consumes food or beverages out of plastic or plastic-lined containers. This is not only harmful to the male reproductive system, but has been found to also stimulate breast cancer growth in women. Knowing this, it should be of no surprise that the sperm count of the average Western male is on a steady decline as many males are becoming more and more feminine. What most people don't know is that Bisphenol A was actually considered as the form of estrogen to be used in estrogen pills going back to the 1930s.


For more information on Bisphenol A, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

[Zippyjuan]

So what do you propose we do about it? Have the government test for it and ban products containing it or allow the products to continue to be sold and let the market decide if people want to buy them or not? Some people say we should get rid of the FDA which would mean it would be much more difficult to even get information on things like this and even try to make an informed decision.

[Acala]

The presence of the FDA makes getting information more difficult because people rely on the FDA and so do no research of their own and free market health advisory firms have less of a market niche.

In a free market, competing container manufacturers would try to get a competitive advantage by trumpeting the problems with Bis-phenol while extolling the virtues of their bis-phenol- free products. Unless people don't belive the research or don't care.

[dannno]

So what do you propose we do about it? Have the government test for it and ban products containing it or allow the products to continue to be sold and let the market decide if people want to buy them or not? Some people say we should get rid of the FDA which would mean it would be much more difficult to even get information on things like this and even try to make an informed decision.

Why on earth do we need the FDA to tell us these things? Is the FDA behind this report??

The FDA, as far as I am concerned, is the one who comes out and lies about the safety of certain products for companies because the majority of people are essentially forced to believe them because they are a government agency.

If the FDA was a private company, nobody wold believe them anymore because we would be more skeptical and there would be a much better company out there who would do a better job and earn the people's trust over time.

[jlott00]

good...they are making us all girlie men...who cant have sons