Proponents of the liberal globalist order call it "Progress":
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Journal of Hazardous Materials
Volume 416, 15 August 2021, 125778
Plastics contamination of store-bought rice
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Claudia Dessì,
Elvis D.Okoffo,
Jake W. O’Brien,
Michael Gallen,
Saer Samanipour,
Sarit Kaserzon,
Cassandra Rauert,
Xianyu Wang,
Kevin V. Thomas
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Highlights
• Selected plastics were quantified in a number of store-bought rice products.
• Washing rice before cooking reduced plastics contamination by 20–40%.
• Plastics in (pre-cooked) instant rice were four-fold higher than in uncooked rice.
• Australians may consume 3–4 mg of plastic through a single serve of rice.
• Australians may consume around 1 g per person annually via rice consumption.
Abstract
This study investigated mass concentrations of selected plastics in store-bought rice, the staple of more than half the world’s population.
Polyethylene,
polyethylene terephthalate, poly-(methyl methacrylate), polypropylene, polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride were quantified using pressurized liquid extraction coupled to double-shot pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Polyethylene, polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate were quantifiable in the rice samples with polyethylene the most frequently detected (95%). There was no statistical difference between total plastic concentration in paper and plastic packaged rice. Shaking the rice in its packaging had no significant difference on the concentration of plastics. Washing the rice with water significantly reduced plastic contamination. Instant (pre-cooked) rice contained fourfold higher levels of plastics, suggesting that industrial processing potentially increases contamination. A preliminary estimate of the intake of plastic through rice consumption for Australians established 3.7 mg per serve (100 g) if not washed and 2.8 mg if washed. Annual consumption was estimated around 1 g/person.
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The researchers at the University of Queensland found Australians may consume 3-4mg of plastic in an average 100g single serve of uncooked rice.
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This is what happens when you allow the perverted capitalist logic of commodification of all things and of all human interactions, to extend to vital areas such as food, health, family and so on.
A direct consequence of entrusting cut-throat, unscrupulous criminal industrial conglomerates (in fact multinational corporations) with food production. Corporations eager to sell people any dangerous and unhealthy garbage, as long as it helps them maximize profits. The very same holds true of the global pharmaceutical industries.
It is this inherently rotten system which westernized secular liberals strive to impose upon nations, including on the Iranian nation. While trying to legitimize their goals with comical claims such as that western-style liberal secular democracy lets everyone be "free" to choose their way of life as they please...
Who exactly has the luxury to avoid consuming these GMO-, chemical fertilizer-, chemical preservative-, hazardous material-contaminated nutriments which monopolistic industrial conglomerates are flooding international food markets with? As if the slave-like working conditions prevalent under the capitalist order, which 99% of people have to submit to in order to be able to earn a living, leaves them enough time and resources to grow their own vegetables and fruits or to farm livestock! Not to mention that quality natural seeds are disappearing at a face pace, only to be hoarded and substracted from public reach inside some obscure seed bank established by the globalist oligarchy near the polar circle (see Svalbard Global Seed Vault). But "freedom", of course - tell me another one!
People are being poisoned on a daily basis by the oligarchy and have no means to prevent it as long as they accept this ruling system. Of course this system contains rebellion by stultifying its subjects through social engineering, cultural and psychological conditioning, nonstop propaganda, zombifying "entertainment" (see Brzezinski's concept of "tittytainment"). Should people dare to rise up nonetheless, then these same liberal so-called "democratic" regimes will unveil their true ugly totalitarian and repressive nature.
If Australians consume 1 gram of particularly dangerous microplastics per year via the industrially-produced rice they ingest, imagine how much of it Iranians are consuming, given imports of (mostly Indian) rice... Whereas much of the domestically produced Iranian rice - though insufficient to cover national consumption, is among the last surviving, cleanly made and non-GMO type of varieties to be found anywhere in the world. Globalist liberals however - who try to portray efforts to ensure agricultural self-sufficiency as "backwardness" (in the words of reformist figure Sadegh Zibakalam, speaking of wheat production), would have no qualms to sacrifice said domestic production for additional imports. Also notice the collaboration of liberal Iranian administrations (from Khatami to Rohani) with the Philippines-based, Rockefeller Foundation-funded IRRI agro-industrial lobbying and research institute. A destructive sell-out mentality through and through.
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I am busy with couple of exciting projects at work, and the new tools we are working on for design and structural analysis, are quite interesting. Despite this, I find myself like child in a candy store, can't wait to come to this forum to read posts by SalarHaqq or aryobarzan or TheImmortal, and PeeD and others here.
SalarHaqq is a very deep person, seems to me, and offers some amazing things for all of us, or I'll just say myself, to think about. I am honored to read these ideas and views.
The last 500 years of European slavery has been quite an interesting era on this planet. The British and their, "Nationalization of Crime for Collective, Domestic Economic Prosperity", which forced the powers of those days (Spain, Dutch, Portuguese, and others), to follow suite all the way (more or less) to the 20th century, and finally being replaced by the new American ideology, "Internationalization of Crime for Integrated Economic Prosperity", (G7? G10? G let's go bomb Iraq and sell the oil and protect the Dollar, for all of us) has turned this planet upside down.
Materialism has been around for a long time. The systematic materialism control of the human specie has never existed with such controlled precision. We can look at history from Roman Empire to the Renaissance, we never saw such a unification strategy and control, with such bonding that industrial glue would not have been able to accomplish. Human nature driven by "need" and "desire" have been been exploited and converted to an
invisible chain and
lock and we are in bondage that we cannot see or touch or taste, but so dependent on it that we fight to protect it.
SalarHaqq's point of view here can easily be validated by asking a very simple question: Why did DARPA work so hard in 1980s and 1990s, to convert the thinking of people to the point of view that "GMO and genetically enhanced food and pesticide/herbicide fertilized food" - is regarded as CONVENTIONAL and organically grown food (done normally for thousands of years) is NOW regarded as NON-CONVENTIONAL?
I would even add other questions that would open the mind and validate what SalarHaqq is discussing here.
Why only 3% of farming in U.S. is organic?
Why do organic farmers pay extra fees for produce being labelled USDA Organic, or pay money for Organic Certification, or must have their farming methods subjected to all kinds of testing and sampling when non-organic is not?
Why RaweSome Milk company had LA police storm it on behalf of FDA, and pour all the raw milk into the sewage before even going to court to request a judges order, and arrested the owner?
Why Obama appointed the VP of Monsanto as the head of FDA? (oxymoron).
Why Congress agreed to a blanket law protection of Monsanto and DuPont? What the hell?
Why Indian wheat farmers are committing suicide?
Why so many chicken farmers who cannot pay their payments (on loans) commit suicide?
Why so many people (relatively) in Western hemisphere (about 1%) get severe headaches and are allergic to wheat and soy, and they don't even know it?
Why there is no nationwide discussion that NATURE put anti-cancer medicine (essential minerals) like silver (naturally antibiotic), copper (naturally protects our skin, the largest organ in our body that helps our toxin filtration system (our liver), to clean up our body, and a wide variety of other minerals that keep humans healthy, why these are being virtually eradicated from our soil and hence our produce, to protect us - and then we resort to pharmaceuticals and supposed anti-cancer chemotherapy that kills a lot of healthy cells to kill the bad cells?
The 500+ cancer cells exist in 99% of people on earth, rather than focusing on immune system, why we (in U.S. in particular) trying to get people sick so they rely on prescription drugs?
These are valid questions, but you never see Zionist controlled media or idiots like Anderson Cooper, or any of the other morons discuss it and talk about it intellectually and intelligently so people can think about these things themselves.
I don't believe we are living in FREEDOM. This is not freedom. This is
FREE to manipulate the
dumb.
This is invisible slavery.
Any if you say so, you will be called a "conspiracy theorist", and everyone who is dependent on this slavery system, who are marginally benefiting from this form of slavery (making money from retirement funds, stock market, paying their mortgages, car payments, etc.) will FIGHT to protect it, even though they are themselves kept in bondage.
In Iran (many places in the world) a house is built from bricks, steel, and concrete. It will last 200+ years.
In U.S., houses are built from particle boards (wood chip and glue) and drywall (2 sheets of paper and chalk). Homes in Seattle/SF/LA/SD/NY or anywhere that is nice to live and access to good paying jobs - are $1M+ homes easily. Yes, particle board and drywall homes, with a countertop to please the wife since women are impressed with shinny objects (let's not talk about chopping kids hands in Africa for diamonds).
A house is a money making scheme for the mafia (I mean the government) to suck money out of everyone from owners, to contractors, or lenders, etc. etc.
I do agree with Karl Marx, for the ending, but I can't ignore the cold inhumane precision in this slaughterhouse.
Everything is now commoditization or weaponized. Food is so much f**cked with that you will see black women in every part of U.S. walking around looking like almost a chicken - small head and huge body - shall we talk about the hormones in chicken that make it grow in 4 weeks instead of 3 months, normally? I was a kid when I first heard of "MacDonald's Chicken MacNuggets". A few years ago I heard MacDonald's declare that they are now making chicken MacNuggets from real CHICKEN?
WTF. What was it made from all these years ?????? Raccoon's A$$hole dipped in oil?
I think I only had that crap 1 time when I was 8 years old.
When did the military's involvement with food start?
After using agent orange in Cambodia?
What is RoundUp made of? Why is it so accessible? what is glyphosate?
Why is there so much glyphosate in women's breast milk? As well as arsenic and mercury (both toxins) which we were not allowed to mess with in aviation industry.
Who invested in Monsanto and DuPont? Who was behind the decision making in most of the investments of Lehman Brothers (no longer around) and JP Morgan?
SalarHaqq's post should make all of us think and do more research and some quiet investigative work. Just stay quiet about it. The powers to be, will not like it if you can muster too much attention to this subject.
I have seen so many negative, one-sided, hypocrisy, demonization, and villainization of Iran (and a few other countries), BUT I rather have a government that is stupid and incompetent and unable to destroy too much, THAN a well coordinated, well funded, well orchestrated highly organized manipulative, sinister EVIL WESTERNER(s) government that none of us can get away from.
And here's one more thing to consider:
What has Cuba ever done to anyone to deserve the last 70 years of injustice, cruelty, brutality, sanctions, and unjustified pressure? Is it that they just wanted to be FREE from Western subjugation, control, and Imperialism?
Iranians have been TRUE free thinkers for thousands of years, since fire worshiping, "
seeking a form of human connection to existence and purpose" -
spirituality. Isn't it slavery, when every TRUE society is being destroyed one way or another, to be replaced by a IDEAL form factor, like all the aesthetic soulless, shopping malls in every community in U.S. replacing all the little retail mom and pop shops? Turning the world into WALMART chains. Yes, chains.
super power
toilet facilities
populace
