Prairie Fare: Are plastics harming our health?

“Have you been hearing about plastics, especially microplastics, lately?” I asked my husband.

He spends a lot of time reading online, so he is often my gauge for column topics. I wondered what he had been seeing.

“Yes. Plastics are everywhere,” he said when he briefly looked up from his phone. He obviously was not very chatty that evening.

What he said was true. I continued reading for this column. I…