PVC - why and why not

[ra94131]

Originally Posted by marvelfreak

Life to short to live it in fear.

100% agree. Everything/everyone is killing everything/everyone these days. PVC is the least of my worries.

Maybe one day more evidence will surface and I'll quit using it, but for every article I read condemning PVC there's one defending it. (And not one of them on either side is really all that convincing to me.)

[Zoo Nanny]

It's not so much living in fear as trying to prevent what ever can be prevented. Since getting into birds I've learned so much about the things we take for granted on a daily basis that are poisoning us. Teflon is another nasty chemical which fortunately is getting banned in 2015 in the US. We're surrounded by it in our homes. Every time we use a hair dryer, cook on it, use a space heater we're breathing in the gasses from it. I have a self cleaning oven that I never use the self cleaning feature because of the threat to the birds. I filter all the water for the animals because of one incident I had here that 5 out of 6 birds got loose stools. The only difference in the 6th bird was he brought his own bottled water. Once I switched everyone else to bottle they were all fine. Very scary stuff. I don't pay the extra money for organics unless I know where it was grown. I've seen in the news where some grocery stores were fined for selling non organic produce as organic.
We are all going to die at some point I would just like that point to not be in the near future.