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Loom Mongers: The Daily Mail Says Loom Bands Give You Cancer, Kill Turtles And Maim Your Kids

by | 20th, August 2014

TIME to pick up your iPads and iPods once again, kids, Loom bands are deadly. The Daily Mail tells us that Looms are killing you all:

On August 13: Loom Bands Give You Cancer:

 

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On August 6 Lorraine Candy wailed tht loom bands are “worse than the addictive computer game Minecraft that absorbed them last year”…

Worse than killer computer games! Yes. Beceu loom band wiull kill Gaia.

August 4: Ticking Loom bands are an ‘eco time bomb”:

 

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Know that:

Paul, director of conservation at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, said: ‘Loom bands, like any plastic item, are capable of persisting in the environment for many, many years and there is abundant evidence of small plastic items making their way into the diets of marine animals and seabirds with tragic consequences. ‘I’d be particularly worried about loom bands being taken to the beach as, due to the likelihood of them getting into the sea.’

On July 11, children were being maimed:

 

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And:

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What to do? The Mail knows. It’s gong to give them away:

 

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The Daily Mail wants to maim your kids, kill turtles and give you cancer.

 

 



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