When I was in high school ages ago we had burritos that were cooked in an oven in their plastic which would sometimes melt into the food. It’s disgusting.
I firmly believe that post industrial dietary changes have much broader effects than we are aware of.
Some people say that the increased prevalence of trans people is due to societal acceptance, and nothing to do with pollution or pseudo-estrogens (found in plastics, and released even more with heat). Imagine the amount of BPA kids have been exposed to.
Which of course we cannot do studies on, because the subject is a taboo. As if studying what's causing something, invalidates the identity of people. The hyper individualistic west, eating itself from the inside out.
I’d tend to agree it’s worth studying. We really don’t understand this stuff. Unfortunately the political football aspect makes that hard.
The age of girls having their first periods is like 5% younger, while regular cycles are taking longer to start. I don’t have the data at my fingertips, but my understanding is that different cohorts have very different results with respect to this.
School cafeteria food is what is known as Institutional Foods, and it's the same mass produced, empty calorie food served to prisoners, soldiers, school childre, and other people who can't complain.