Restaurant food should be banned

[Chris Hu]

shavenferret said:

Chris Hu said:

The main culprit in the lowering of humans IQ in the last 100 years was and still is leaded gasoline even though most gasoline is now unleaded and has been for over 40 years we still deal with its effects on humanity.  The asshole that thought that putting lead in gasoline Thomas Midgley Jr. also came up with Freon which was and is just as bad for humans and the planet.

Well, ok, but that ignores the vast and ever increasing amounts of chemicals in the environment from industrial sources, microplastics, lack of physical exercise, and more processed foods that come from some factory.  It's not nearly so simple as what you're trying to say, or even what i'm saying because there are probably multiple reasons.  

Sure, that is the case, but leaded gasoline is still the main culprit in the decline of global overall IQ in the last 100 years, and we still have not recovered from all the damage that was caused by leaded gasoline.  The US has always had very relaxed regulations when it comes to protecting the environment so the effects of microplastics and other forever chemicals are a lot worse in the US than in most other countries.  It's also ironic that Nixon started the EPA but every Republican president since Nixon has been trying to weaken or dismantle the EPA.