Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin

An anonymous reader writes "The Environmental Protection Agency is holding public hearings beginning today to review a proposed safe exposure limit for dioxin, a known carcinogen and endocrine disruptor produced as a common industrial byproduct. It's all but impossible to avoid exposure to dioxin. Women exposed to it pass it on to fetuses in the womb, and both breast milk and formula have been shown to contain the stuff. Research done by the Environmental Working Group has shown that a nursing infant ingests an amount 77 times higher than what the EPA has proposed as safe exposure. Adults are exposed to 1,200 times more dioxin than the EPA suggests is safe, mostly through eating meat, dairy, and shellfish."

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Re:1200 times safe level?

[FiloEleven]

Are you also gay? Because you might be soon.

This is not flamebait. It's just that vegans who consume a lot of soy products are getting way too much estrogen in their diets. I just heard an anecdote from a friend's roommate who, on his most recent trip to his doctor, said that while he still loved his girlfriend, he found himself increasingly attracted to men. They did some tests and found his estrogen levels were way out of whack, and that was causing his homosexual feelings. Being gay isn't a problem; being gay when you're straight and involved is.

I'm not criticizing the lifestyle, just putting the info out there--it's something vegans should be aware of. The gentleman in question switched to being a vegetarian and his issue went away with time. There are probably other ways for vegans to avoid too much soy as well. The "turning gay" thing is sensational, but having too much estrogen will be problematic in other ways for anybody, so gay and female vegans ought to keep an eye out as well.

If this is already well-known, my bad.

become a vegan

[nimbius]

problem solved once again. seriously guys, that dystopian wasteland we all giggle about at the movies is becoming more and more a reality every day. climate change, mercury in fish, dioxins in meat, produce contamination from
pig farm and bovine wastewater runoff, megacorps like monsanto pushing unsafe genetically modified foods and silencing dissenters, and a growing population of adults that are completely fucking incapable of cooking anything outside hotdogs and microwave hot pockets should be a call to action.