we inhale or ingest roughly 68,000 microplastic particles every 24 hours... even on Christmas.

of the more than 14,000 chemicals found in food packaging, about 1 in 4 of them (3,601) have been found in human blood, hair, brains, and/or milk.

many of these are known to disrupt the endocrine system and/or to cause cancer.

at the time of this writing, the average human being consumes the equivalent of a credit card's worth of plastic every week.

75% of the plastic pollution on earth (including the ocean) is dust from car and truck tires wearing down. the particles are so small that they pass directly from any animals gills/lungs into its blood, and from there to the brain. (that includes us.)

about half of any food grown or produced in the u.s. contains radioactive cesium, which was spread across the country during nuclear weapon tests during the 1940's - 1960's.

u.s.-raised and slaughtered chickens have been banned in the e.u. since 1997 due to fecal and bacterial contamination, which the u.s. treats with chlorine washes of the meat.

when you wash raw chicken, you spread a bacteria capable of causing food poisoning onto your hands, kitchen surfaces, sink, clothing, and other food.

perflurooctanoic acid, also known as c8 or pfoa, is used in the production of non-stick pans, gore-tex, etc. if ingested, it can cause cancer, high cholesterol, thyroid disease, eye defects in unborn children, enlarged livers, ulcerative colitis, etc. the only safe way to dispose of it is to incinerate it or treat it as chemical waste. instead, dupont dumped hundreds of thousands of pounds of it into the ohio river, and buried 7,100 tons more in an unlined sludge pit. to date, dupont faces 3,5,34 multi-million dollar lawsuits as a result.

if you consume a mushroom called coprinopsis atramentaria within 3 days of drinking alcohol, they will kill you, but they're perfectly safe to eat at any other time.

90% of pork chops and ground beef contain fecal bacteria.

avocados are deadly to most birds.

if you eat too many apricots or apple seeds, you will die from cyanide.

if you eat enough poorly-prepared fugu (puffer fish) or are bitten by a blue-ringed octopus, there is no antidote that can save you.

in 1993, fast food chain jack in the box infected 732 people with e. coli (food poisoning). 4 children died, and 178 other victims were left with permanent brain and kidney damage.