Want More Plastic in Your Body? Eat Animals.

You breathe it. You drink it. But if you want to maximise your microplastic intake, the most effective way is to eat animals.

Animals concentrate the plastic pollution we dump into the world. Whether it's through industrial feed or contaminated prey, they don’t filter plastic — they deliver it to you in a neatly packaged body.

Microplastics contaminate soil, air, water, and crops. They're taken up by plants, eaten by insects, and magnified with every step up the food chain.

The animals humans breed and kill don’t escape this. They're fed plastic-laced crops, bedded on plastic-laced straw, and raised in air thick with microplastic dust. Their bodies act like sponges — absorbing and storing it.

Their blood, flesh, milk, and eggs all contain plastic. So when you consume them, you ingest everything they absorbed.

Land animals are bad.

Sea animals are worse.

Plankton consume microplastics directly. Fish eat plankton. Bigger fish eat smaller fish. Then humans eat the big fish — and with them, every plastic fragment they've accumulated. This is called trophic magnification.

Fish are so contaminated that even muscle tissue — not just guts — is loaded with plastic particles. Shellfish? You're eating them whole.

Some try to use the plastic crisis to promote wool, leather, and silk — pretending animal exploitation is somehow “natural” or “eco.”

It’s not.

They require more resources and cause more emissions than synthetic or plant-based fibres.

You can’t avoid microplastics entirely. But eating lower on the chain means consuming far less of them. The more animals in your diet, the more plastic in your bloodstream. The more sea animals, the worse it gets.

If you want to stop being the final dumping ground for industrial waste, it starts with this:

Stop eating the bodies that absorbed it.