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[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Can anybody tell me why this is a bad idea

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The food you consume to produce the blood also has micro plastic. Nothing changes.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 61 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah buts it's fresh micro plastic and not this stall stuff I've had in me for years.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 7 months ago

Therefore it's got new fresh chemicals to "leech" out into your blood again.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago

That should depend on how the chemicals accumulate though. If all the plastic ends up in your blood and never gets naturally filtered out, it could make sense. Maybe it builds up in your fat/muscles instead though, or gets filtered over time and the amount in your system is the same as the amount in what you have recently eaten, idk

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s animal cruelty. (Feeding plastic-laden blood to leaches)

[–] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Somehow I don't think they'd mind too much, provided you give them a nice leech habitat.

Until Socraleech comes along and they force him to suck hemlock.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's a special type of cruelty when victim does not mind. Like when you give a drug addict tons of heroin.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And 4Chan, which is the worst form of internet advice.

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

It isn't. Blood donation reduces PFASs and iron buildup (too much iron in the blood is bad). And leeches are used in certain procedures, although I haven't heard of them being used to remove microplastics (yet).