Here's the latest cancer scare: Drinking hot tea causes esophageal cancer! Not hot coffee--let's not ruin that multibillion dollar industry, not hot broth, not hot cider, not hot chocolate, hot tea is today's boogie man. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324771.php Adjectives like piping hot and even scalding hot were used to induce fear in tea drinkers, but wouldn't anything that repeatedly scalds the body cause damage? And who could regularly drink scalding fluids of any sort? https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/drinking-very-hot-tea-linked-risk-1-type-oesophageal-cancer/ Untold billions of people have been drinking tea for 10,000 years but suddenly it causes cancer. Just once I'd like to see an article emphatically stating, The Polluted Air You Breathe Causes Cancer, or, Swimming In Polluted Water Causes Cancer, or, Living On Poisoned Ground Causes Cancer. I grew up in a township where an entire community was poisoned by lead through factory air, water and land pollution. Approximately 50% of the inhabitants who lived there for their entire lives developed cancer, all kinds, blood, lung, colon, kidney, bladder, breast. You couldn't spin and spit in any direction without hitting someone who had it or had it in their family and yet my mom was told her blood cancer was caused by smoking and my friend was told her bladder cancer was caused by smoking. My dad's sister was told her blood cancer was caused by the logs she used in her fireplace. But nobody acknowledged the 50 years of prior and continuous lead contamination in the air, land and waterways. When are we going to stop blaming people for their cancer and start placing the blame at the source? And when are we going to demand the end to scare tactics that make us question and blame ourselves instead of the sources that are protected by the government? Very recently, within the last 2 months some people who vape--smoke tobacco or marijuana oils via a battery pen, started getting sick, probably from a bad additive in one of the mixes. 12 people died of respiratory illnesses so IMMEDIATELY state governments started banning vaping! They didn't pick a brand or a product. They just arbitrarily banned an entire category of product and its ingestion vehicle used nationwide, without any research! Suddenly people who take THC medicine via vaping are thrown into a quandary because overnight they can't use the medicine they have, yet here we are with the tea. This latest 'cancer discovery' of tea, was found in 2016, yet it's October 2019 and tea hasn't been banned! These aforementioned links, both from March of 2019, 3 years after the discovery, state there was a resurgence in interest in the dangers of hot tea and yet curiously tea has not been banned. And let's talk about Roundup by Monsanto. Monsanto was banned in more than a dozen countries throughout the world because it is known to be a carcinogenic for at least 5 years and not only was it not banned in this country, our government IGNORED the findings. Even after Monsanto was successfully sued for killing people, it is STILL on the market to everyday consumers--you and me! Why? Perhaps it's time to start scrutinizing at who benefits from all of these 'findings' because we are living in a very punitive society that very often punishes the wrong people for the wrong reasons. #tea #teacausescancer #vaping #vapepens #tobacco #thc #hysteria #roundup #monsanto
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