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 harming us, but even killing us.

So let's dive in.

Hey everybody, welcome to show this is another installment of fatal conveniences to liberate

you to release you from the grips of things that you may not know about or that you're

denying exists that's affecting you.

This one, obviously I've talked a lot about plastic, and we know that plastic and single

use plastic is detrimental in many different ways.

I'm going to zero in on this one, and this fatal convenience is Ziploc storage bags.

The convenience of this is so convenient.

Man, grabbing a Ziploc storage bag with a little zipper to seal your food and everything,

it seems like such a great idea if it wasn't plastic.

It didn't have bisphenol A, negative effects on our hormonal system, negative effects in the

huge degree on our environment.

So a little history, Stephen Osnit was the original developer of Ziploc in 1954.

Then his father, Max, and his uncle Edgar purchased the rights of the original plastic zipper,

designed by a Danish inventor named Björg Madsen, who had no particular application in mind

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