Deadly Aviation Pretzel Gas: Foodbabeliness in Action
Today while flying home from a scientific conference I could not help but remember the Food Babe’s warnings about commercial aviation. Her recent post warns of recirculated filth and high amounts of nitrogen, somewhere like 50%. Of course, that’s about 30% less than ambient air. Her claims were widely, and appropriately criticized. Today I took a good look at the inside of that cylinder in the sky and noticed hazards that Vani didn’t catch. She failed to account for other airborne dangers on the plane, problems that likely contribute to the deadly quality of cabin air more than anything she may ever fear. But before I start, we all know that commercial aviation is plagued with funny odors. While we sit in a chair in the sky the nose is treated to a parade of organic funk, wafting through the cabin. Whether it is the chronically unshowered and unsleeved, the woman that insists on taking off her shoes and putting her feet all over everything, or the folks that secrete gase