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Go somewhere else... In Germany there is no chlorine and fluoride in tap water You can buy meat and vegs locally almost everywhere Most pesticides are outlawed or frowned upon by the people People actively clean up litter, plant wild flowers for bees and try to use renewable power. There are other countries like this, look for these.

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> In Germany there is no chlorine and fluoride in tap water

That's false. Most places add chlorine to the tap water system, for good reason.

And while tap water isn't fluoridized, you'll have to look hard in supermarkets to find table salt that isn't.

In the small supermarket there is one table salt with and one without iodine or flouride In organic supermarkets you'll have more choice for salt and so on. In big supermarkets there are like 5-6 different kinds of salt.. seasalt, himalayan, prehistoric seasalt and so on. German Tap Water is not chlorinated or flourinated.

I'm asking a general question, everybody is affected in some way or another, and no country is spared.

For instance see the multiple articles recently posted to HN about how microplastics are present even in the air we breathe, or in water in very remote, 'unspoiled' locations.

Edit : I'm interested in what others do, specific actions, like buying organic produce, avoiding tuna, filtering water, etc.

What things they do, how often, why, etc.

I drink tap water and eat meat and milk products. if I get micro plastic, it's prolly in sardines and wild salmon. milk products are usually in plastic buckets that would be a good source

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