Did you trade in your BPA-leeching Nalgene for a case of Diet Coke and figure you’d beat the man? Bad news for all the soda swillers. Turns out that the lining put into the cheap aluminum used for soda cans also leeches the gender-bending chemical BPA into your drink. Thank god I only drink Sun Drop and Ting from glass bottles. Wait, we’re not going to find out that beer cans are also putting the plastic chemical into our bellies, are we? At least you’d have to drink about 8000 cans per day to get to dangerous levels of BPA, so it’s less of a problem with soda but we’re not in the clear with beer.

What’s really remarkable to me about this story is that the outdoor industry was so far out in front of the trend. We identified the evil-doers way before everyone else, and now outdoorsy people are slowly returning to our correct gender/orientation-specific roles. It was the same thing with ‘green’ gear—for years the term green belonged solely to outdoors companies. Too bad we can’t find a way to capitalize on these trends and get filthy rich; that’s the problem with having an ethos that stands in contrast to capitalism. Ooh, maybe that means ‘capitalism’ will be the next to fall.

via Treehugger

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