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A Sobering Christmas Reality: Cocktail of Hazardous Pesticides in Wine has Tripled (www.thecanary.co)
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A French nationwide study published in the Environmental Research journal suggested that agricultural practices and pesticides used in vineyards could have been linked to the occurrence of Parkinson’s disease.

According to PAN UK’s findings, there seems to be a rising trend in the occurrence of pesticide combinations in food. The total percentage of fruit and vegetables with residues from multiple pesticides has consistently stayed below 48%, but this year it unexpectedly spiked to an astonishing 53%.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago (13 children)

I hate to break it to wine-drinkers, but alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen. If the risk of Parkinson's due to pesticide use scares you, you won't get away from cancer by going with organic wine.

Even the WHO isn't afraid to say that No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health, so the choice is in your hands.

[–] Unanimous_anonymous@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I think the difference can be drawn in parallel to cigarettes: an unfiltered cigarette is worse than a filtered one for smoking. Both are obviously bad for you, but if you're stacking carcinogens and other health concerns, eventually you'll reach someone's breaking point. I don't think anyone is claiming alcohol is healthy, but I also don't think the response should be "it's already unhealthy, so this isn't won't stop anyone". Every risk associated decision we make adds to the statistics pool for whether we get sick. Mitigating that might actually worry someone enough to switch to a healthier (not healthy) form of alcohol consumption.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Both are obviously bad for you, but if you’re stacking carcinogens and other health concerns, eventually you’ll reach someone’s breaking point.

I agree that that happens, and I think it's crazy that some people will actually double-down on their use when faced with that reality.

Why even have a "breaking point" for something so totally unnecessary to your happiness and future? Are people so hooked in harmful substances that they simply can't find a less destructive alternative?

I just don't get why people hate good health so much.

I don’t think anyone is claiming alcohol is healthy

Unfortunately, for quite some time, people claimed that wine was healthy because of the antioxidants it contains. That is, until actual science put a "hell no!" to that theory. It turns out that poison, no matter how many antioxidants it has, is still poison.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can I have a source that filtered cigarettes are "healthier"

[–] Risk@feddit.uk 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I found one source! It was sponsored by the British Tobacco Company, lol.

Nah, it's difficult to find recent data of it - because I get the impression from the papers I have found - the idea was thrown out as a marketing ploy in the 50s and has no significant impact on risk.

Instead it just makes cigarettes worse for the environment - because the filters don't decompose.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I mean it serves a purpose, it's so you don't get pieces of tobacco in your mouth. But other then that, I don't think it does much at all. The amount it obstructs could surely be counteracted by being able to smoke more tobacco by not having a burning ember near your fingers.

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