{"id":539,"date":"2013-06-10T11:57:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=539"},"modified":"2013-06-12T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T16:41:50","slug":"why-we-dont-want-to-be-inhaling-or-swallowing-styrofoam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Why we don\u2019t want to be inhaling or swallowing Styrofoam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s not rocket surgery.<\/p>\n

All you have to do is watch the surface of any hot liquid in one of those Styrofoam cups to see it forming a slick on your drink.<\/p>\n

When every cell in my body goes \u201cEw!\u201d I pay attention. I may not be a scientist, but my body knows a few things on its own. It was right about smoking. Even in my infancy I knew that was bad. (\u201cSuck this stinky grey substance into my lungs? um… no thank you.\u201d) I don\u2019t know what was wrong with everybody else, but I did not need to wait for the Surgeon General to publicly declare it harmful in 1964.<\/p>\n

And yet I see all these people smoking — friends, relatives — and guess what? They\u2019re smart people too! At least as smart as me, and in some cases smarter. So I remain completely stumped about why everyone didn\u2019t have the same reaction to smoking that I did.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s the same thing with Styrofoam. How can anyone with a set of eyeballs and taste buds see and smell and sip a hot drink in a Styrofoam cup and proceed to drink it?<\/p>\n

You want to know what’s known about it so far? You can read about it here<\/a>. And I think we can safely assume that we don\u2019t know the extent of it yet.<\/p>\n

But think about it: So many perplexing illnesses in the world, and we\u2019re ok with ingesting styrofoam? So many people suffering, from both mental and physical illnesses, and we have no idea why?<\/p>\n

Really? Can we please start with the obvious toxins? Do we need the scientists to study something as icky as styrofoam for a few more decades before we believe that this is just BAD? Or can we use our own brains RIGHT NOW and JUST SAY NO TO STYROFOAM!?<\/em><\/p>\n

Next post I\u2019ll tell you where you can dispose of it — which makes us feel a little better, but of course, as I discussed in my last post, it\u2019s not going anywhere. We need to stop it at its source. More on that soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not rocket surgery. All you have to do is watch the surface of any hot liquid in one of those Styrofoam cups to see it forming a slick on your drink. When every cell in my body goes \u201cEw!\u201d I pay attention. I may not be a scientist, but my body knows a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106,13,87,23],"tags":[128,129,127,30,92,130,98,119,118,131,132,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}