It's that time of the week for another fatal convenience.

This is a bite-sized segment that addresses some of society's fatal conveniences, and

the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them.

I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in

makes us believe we have to.

Water, shampoo, sunglasses, food, I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday

choices that could not only be farming us, but even killing us.

So let's dive in.

Hey everybody, welcome to the show.

This is your friendly fatal convenience that I'm going to bestow on you the next one.

This is in spirit of Christmas.

So the first one that came up when I was thinking of Christmas was fake Christmas trees.

That's right, fake Christmas trees.

You know where I'm going, you know where I'm going, but you're also going to find out

that maybe real Christmas trees are actually a good thing when done right.

So listen, fake Christmas trees, crazy.

Before we get into what the hell they're made of, which I know you know where I'm going,

plastic, we will unpack that a little more.

So you know what your children are crawling around on and touching and you are touching.

And it's also perfuming you in your house with gnarly chemicals.

But first the history, the first artificial Christmas tree was made in Germany during

the 1800s because the yearly tradition of cutting down live Christmas trees had dangerously

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