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We Are Being Drenched in Plastics—Even Through Our Clothes

Natural fibers actually break down. If they end up in the watershed—which they will when we wash our clothing—they biodegrade.
We Are Being Drenched in Plastics—Even Through Our Clothes
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Mollie Engelhart
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Sometimes I feel like everywhere I look, there’s some toxic chemical infiltrating our food system, water, home—even our cars. Something is always off-gassing, leaching, or shedding. It starts to feel overwhelming as a mother. How do you live in this world and not be of this world? How do you do things the old way and not dip your children into the toxic soup that surrounds us?

Mollie Engelhart
Mollie Engelhart
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Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher at Sovereignty Ranch, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom—a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.