Did you know you breathe in highly toxic jet engine air every time you travel?

( Natural News ) During flights, every breath you take inside an airliner’s passenger cabin fills your lungs with air taken directly from the plane’s jet engines. An article in Green Med Info stated that this exposes you to tricresyl phosphates (TCPs) and other deadly chemicals used to ensure the smooth operation of the engines. This is not a design flaw, by the way. This is a deliberate design that has been used for the past six decades. As aircraft began to fly higher and higher, engineers needed to find a way to pressurize fuselages at high altitudes. Otherwise, passengers and crew would suffer potentially dangerous conditions such as altitude sickness. (Related: Poison in the sky: The air travel industry has been putting profit over safety by ignoring aerotoxicity .) They decided the easiest way to do so was to redirect bleed air from the compressor stage of the aircraft’s engines into the fuselage. This diverted compressed air is cooled down and supposedly scrubbed by the plane’s environmental systems before being pumped into the fuselage. Today, almost every aircraft in service uses this dubious method to pressurize cockpits and cabins. The airliner equivalent of pumping car exhaust into your vehicle The problem with this neat engineering solution is that jet engines are very dirty machinery. They burn volatile fossil fuels and their numerous moving parts require a host of chemical lubricants that prevent potentially dangerous breakdowns. These lubricants include TCPs, which are also used as adhesives, active ingredients in pesticides, and plasticizers. Organophosphates like TCPs are also known to be neurotoxins, which target the brain and nerves. Support our mission and enhance your own self-reliance : The laboratory-verified Organic Emergency Survival Bucket provides certified organic, high-nutrition storable food for emergency preparedness. Completely free of corn syrup, MSG, GMOs and […]

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