I could live without a microwave. Sure, it'd be a little inconvenient at first, but then it would force me to be more proactive about planning dinners and eating healthy food. I have never really trusted them anyway. I guess it sort of niggled at the back of my mind without ever truly coming to the surface.
However as I am awakening into real food, I am facing things that I never thought of before. Never considered. Always taken as good and true and right because that's what we are told; that these things are normal.
I will be going cold turkey on microwaves, especially after reading this article on the subject that is well researched and full of examples. I didn't know that microwaving certain foods in certain materials can cause carcinogens to form in otherwise healthy food! What? That's utterly insane. Why use something that will give you cancer?! Just... wow.
How disappointing that we are told this is safe.
How frustrating that this information is so unknown, and that people are so unwilling to hear it.
I had a microwave that mom gave me for Christmas one year. I am happy to say that it has been gone for months now to someone else (though knowing what I know now, I'm feeling guilty for giving her that thing). Though I live with people who do use theirs on occasion, I am personally giving it up for good.
- From the (now non-microwaving) Sweetgrass Cookery.
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