WANT A SIDE OF LIVER CANCER WITH THOSE FRIES?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
While the GOP are in the pocket of the chemical industry, we can still lobby them as citizens to do something about PFAS chemicals and their impact on us, our children, and our grandchildren. How worried should we be if the debt ceiling isn’t lifted? Texas Republican Chip Roy says the GOP will hold the debt ceiling hostage even if it's dangerous to do so. Geeky Science! This one habit can save your heart. Doing this effortless habit can help relieve stress, improve your heart health.
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| 1:06.7 | We want to cite a liver cancer with your French fries. We'll talk about that in just a moment. |
| 1:11.4 | Also, how worried should we be if the death ceiling isn't lifted? Are the Republicans actually |
| 1:16.4 | planning to crash the American economy? But to start out, my rant today, my daily take, |
| 1:23.6 | as it were, over at HartmanReport.com is titled, Want a Side of Liver Cancer with those fries? |
| 1:31.0 | And here's the story. The findings of a 2022 analysis of food packaging wrap basically the |
| 1:39.9 | wrappers that your burgers and fries come in, you know, or that you carry out food from the |
| 1:44.4 | restaurant, that kind of thing. Performed by consumer reports, they were looking for chemicals |
| 1:50.6 | called PFAS, PFAS, in those packaging products came up with some pretty amazing results. There's |
| 2:00.2 | a link to the actual study itself in my article. They found some of these restaurants claim that |
| 2:08.0 | they have changed these since then, but Arby's paper bag for cookies, the Burger King paper bag for |
| 2:13.2 | cookies, the Cava Fiber Trail for kids meals, the Chick-fil-A wrapper for sandwich wrap, McDonald's |
| 2:18.4 | paper bag for French fries, Nathan's paper bag for sides, sweet greens paper bag for Casio, Taco |
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