I've had this shitty feeling about plastic all along.

Haven't you?

There is a great piece of reporting over at Mother Jones that has me feeling sick to my stomach about the cups we've been giving our little ones...convenient, and...plastic. (Go ahead hippy friends, castigate me. Throw stones. Snark if you want. I am defenseless.)

Not just the BPA-free cups. All the household storage containers, plastic wrap...even the "kind" brands of plastics...all of em...no good. 

Blake shows that the chemical compounds that have been used to replace BPA...drum roll please...have MORE estrogen compounds than BPA.

And the manufacturers even used the same lobbyists and strategists as Big Tobacco to hide the information....

Doesn't that just suck?

Are we surprised?

The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics and the Big Tobacco-style campaign to bury it. by Mariah Blake, MOTHER JONES

Here's Amy Goodman interviewing Blake about the story on Democracy Now! :

It's a great piece of investigative journalism. It will be interesting to see what kind of play, if any, this story gets...

I think there's a great reticence to the idea that despite your best efforts, you've been poisoning yourself and your kids. People by and large just don't want to hear it.

I know I didn't.

But as much a pain in the ass as it sounds...I think it may be time to ditch all the household plastic and find alternative means of storage.

Guess we'll have to start doing some shopping....