I love her to bits but I can’t figure out how she though this was a gold idea. It puts fumes into the food

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    That was the official way to seal bags on the McDonald’s I used to work.

    Heat the spatula on the grill, then place the bag on the grill and press with the tip of the spatula.

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    Why worry about “microplastics” when you can inhale the fumes in your home and consume macroplastics in your food!? Mmm, tastes like burning…

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    Boomers are fucking crazy with their food! My mom literally can’t stop microwaving styrofoam with their food inside it! No wonder cancer rates are absolutely RAGING

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      Cancer rates are going up because people aren’t dying from other things first

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        No. Both other causes and cancer are going up, because we’ve more toxic shit everywhere, and less healthcare than ever.

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          More toxic than 40 years ago? Yeah no, not even nearly. They also did not have more healthcare.

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            It’s not lead now, it’s other stuff. It’s worse now, or soon will be. PFAS alone is an unimagineable nightmare.

            They combine industrial waste with sewage and spread it on fields for ffertilizer. They stopped enforcing the runoff laws that prevented algae blooms from like back 50 years back. To say nothing of the extra round-up.

            For instance, in the last 30 years, insect populations worldwide are down 90%. That is new, and even though we don’t have rivers catching fire at the moment, or lead in the air, it’s worse in many ways.

            I take your point though, but the progresses made are being reversed as we speak.

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        There many different kinds of plastic, many of which are perfectly safe to put in the microwave for a few minutes.

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    For all the comments in here, I’m surprised nobody’s pointed out there’s a good chance she’s simply not aware of the health effects. If she’s receptive, this could be a good chance to educate her.

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      You can’t communicate health concerns about stuff to old people like this, I can’t. It’s never worked, and more often than not they strangely hate you for it.

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    We all agree this is bad for food safety, but don’t you think regular sealing will affect the food as well? Of course melting the edges to seal them will produce some amount of gasses, even if it’s not burning, just like warm water will evaporate even if it’s not boiling. We shouldn’t use plastics for packaging at all.

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        …yes, and limit the shelf life of the product, which is plastics’ biggest benefit. Air and water tight packaging extends shelf lives to ridiculous lenghts, especially if filled with an inert gas like your typical bag of fresh salad leaves. Besides saving money on produce that would spoil without plastic packaging, alternative packaging would entail changing people’s eating habits, especially in the northern hemisphere. But we really need to, you know? :/

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    omg

    your ma has sealed up the cellophane from a pack up butts before, bet. Thats a real easy way to do it, and how we passed weed back in the days haha. That could be where she picked up the habit? Dont matter im dying haha

    Why would you seal food this way!? Freaking hilarous, im so sorry haha goodness some folks.

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      Oh man, that hits hard in the nostalgias. Not as bad as smoking resin, turning random objects into weed pipes, inhaling hash smoke from hot butter knives… gah, I’m so fucked

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    For like 40 bucks you can buy a sealer. It doesn’t work well though. Best to not use plastic at all. I hate plastic.