Sigg makes the list of deplorable companies
I always felt particularly relieved, after discovering the dangers of BPA perhaps a little too late, that Calvin had very few bottles (probably as many as I can count on my fingers) over all the course of his infant life. When he reached the age of cup drinking we went almost straight to having him drink out of small glasses at home and used the Born Free BPA-free sippy cups when we were out. Not too much later, in response to Calvin's desire to be get away from the "baby's" sippy cup, we came home with the much touted Sigg water bottle - a metal water bottle made in Switzerland and supposed to be safe from the dangers of BPA. Supposed to be.
As it turns out, the SIGG water bottle was never sold as "BPA free", just the whole green freak community (of which I am lovingly part) accepted it as such based on the rather vague comments of the company's CEO. We accepted that statement because we wanted to, so when the same CEO came out last week to confess that bottles made before August 2008 were coated with a BPA lining, we had only ourselves to blame. We'd banked our children's lives on imperfect knowledge. I, for one, hadn't even read the original statement by the company, but had jumped right on the band wagon, trusting the general opinion of the general public, and got just the general end that I deserved–a general feeling of guilt about the amount of synthetic hormones my son may or may not have ingested. Epistemology–the theory of knowledge and how we really know what we really know. Is there really any way to know without seeing for ourselves? All the rest is just based on trust, and unfortunately we are having to trust an industry which has consistently lied to us and let us down.
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