Awareness on where the food we eat comes from is important indeed, being why I take part in a local Plotted farm(?) (Andels landbruk) where we buy vegitables directly from the farmer in some arangement where we help with what we can and harvest it directly ourselves. A cooperative farmin of sorts. There probbably is a name for it in english that i dont know.
This is what I see as one solution to directly take part in the food you eat. This isnt really a viable solution to everyone, but it is still a direction that other arrangements can in time be made where we can get more and more of the food directly from the farmer and thus a feedback to the farmer in how he does things can also be made.
This can potentially also fix or drastically reduce the plastic used in packing up the products being made for being sold in stores.
However, what I don understand , or see the logic in, is how this micro plastic suposedly gets into our foods. Because the plants dont take up litteral particles of plastic from the ground. They take up nutrients through the barrier of the outer layer of its roots. So from my understanding the micro plastics dont actually get into out food, unless we dont wash it enough, as in there being some dirt on it. That does not mean that the plastic does not do damage by being in the ground. It does damage in diferent ways, from my understanding.
The only way I see this could happen, is if the plastic molecules mimics other nutrients that the plant takes up.
Great comments @jostein! always love your opinions!
the way we get plastic in our food is when the farmer is too lazy to pick up the plastic in the fields, and then cuts the grass, plastic will follow the grass and be fed to the animals we eat, so no, we dont eat plastic directly, nor does our plants as we know of (this might change in future) if as you say the plastic manages to mimic the molecules of other nutrients .
There is hope for us still tho! Fungus, we don't really know what fungus is, but we know that fungus can eat plastic and other petroleum products, we should plant more fungus around.