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[Johnsond]

21 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Have you read any of his books? He's a cracking author. 

Pleasure of the damned 👍contains some cracking lines. 
Truth is Mark I find his stuff a grind to try and get through, I feel the same about Tolkien and people rave about his books 🤷‍♂️takes all sorts though. 

[Johnsond]

Makes you proud of our wonderful criminal justice system. God help you if you have a bald tyre or your road tax is out though. 

[Stere]

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As an aside to an aside. I've got a load of big black square plant pots, very much industrial, that I acquired years ago from someone giving them away on a Freecycle type site. They're the dogs plums, tough as. The guy had some kind of close police connection; the pots were seized in a warehouse raid somewhere.

 

 

Modern plant pots are very  inferior quality  plastic compared to old ones.....

 

I have some old ones that have  lasted yrs

 

Make in UK,  congleton & darlington etc I don't  think anyone makes them anymore the same quality?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[peds]

They are absolutely terrible, modern pots. After a season of UV light they just start disintegrating. It's partly so that nurseries and garden centres have to keep buying them instead of reusing stock. If you are careful and keep them in pitch black they stay usable for years, but as soon as they go outside they're finished. 

[AHPP]

2 hours ago, peds said:

They are absolutely terrible, modern pots. After a season of UV light they just start disintegrating. It's partly so that nurseries and garden centres have to keep buying them instead of reusing stock. If you are careful and keep them in pitch black they stay usable for years, but as soon as they go outside they're finished. 

 

Just use them with plants that grow in the dark. You greenies think you have it all figured out. Risible. 

[Johnsond]

Why are so many young people getting cancer?

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Becca used to have formidable life plans. She was a corporate lawyer, happy to work long days across...

Food,Medicines, our Environment possibly all of the above and more who knows !, but it’s most definitely effecting people more and more sadly. 

[peds]

Too much plastic, herbicides, pesticides, industrial residues and/or emissions in the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.

Remove as much as possible of all of the above from everywhere we can, and cancer rates drop.

Easiest low-hanging fruit to tackle first: stop spraying glyphosates on cereal crops.

 

...and maaaybe start voting for people more likely to enact policies on the above... 

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[AHPP]

Clueless hippy dross. Eat poison like the rest of us. 

[tree-fancier123]

 The total cumulative risk in the first 25 years of life was 1 in 194 for males and 1 in 214 for females.

So approx one young person in 200 gets cancer by age 25

 

Children, teenagers and young adults UK cancer statistics report 2021 - NDRS

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Children, teenagers and young adults UK cancer statistics report 2021

9 hours ago, peds said:

Easiest low-hanging fruit to tackle first: stop spraying glyphosates on cereal crops.

I would argue that until you find a way of providing the same amount of food without glyphosate, it is safe enough - otherwise would the other 199 out of 200 not be getting cancer?

I don't dispute modern chemicals can be carcinogenic, but cancer in young people is still rare - I mean one person in 200 has something devastating happen that kills them/ ruins their life, whereas 199 out of 200 are cancer free by age 25

[Steven P]

I'd suspect that there isn't one single cause that you can pinpoint and say "That it is" but are more likely to be many small things that add up to cause cancers.

 

I'd also suspect that genetics plays a role here (in that for example, some people in a family might have allergies, some might not).

 

Third thing I'd suspect is that combine the 2 together, genetics and your diet  / make up / lifestyle might make you a risk of cancer but not someone else living apparently similar lives.

 

Might look up e-numbers too - I had a list once online and their suspected links (website was mostly redundant / duplicated years ago so I took it down) - a lot to do with childhood hyperactivity but cancers and diabetes links appeared regularly (not all e-numbers are bad, some are just a number for food (example E162 is beetroot juice).

 

Peds has a point I think - what we add to crops could have an effect if your body is built that way - and if you can... go for the more organic (example here, broccoli or organic broccoli in Lidl was about 10p different, best chicken to second best chicken again about 15p a kg different, in a big shop we don't notice that). On meat free days we'll go organic chickpeas and so on, difference in price for that meal to a meat meal makes up for going to organic veggies quite often

Edited July 21 by Steven P