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About all of the chemicals used and if this has any connection to more autoimmune diseases. Plastic is poison in my opinion. Glad to find more things coming in glass.
I have an auto immune disease and oft wonder why I went from being healthy and active to being able to do so little so quickly. What causes these things??
Romona, I drank from garden hoses in the 50s, too. They were made from natural rubber. They definitely smelled rubbery on a hot day, and the hoses gradually disintegrated like any natural product.
"hiway" is right. The dangerous polyvinyl chloride hoses that leach lead and other toxins (especially when heated by the sun) weren't even developed until the late 1950s, and took quite a while to achieve the market dominance they enjoy today.
give me a break. did they do all this back in the 50's when all my friends drank from hoses and were all fine.
back in the 50's the hoses and connection were not all the cheap plastic crap, so we were safer to drink from the hose...today the market is saturated with merchandise that is below par...