Real craftsmanship is not always superior to automation. The latest example is the famous “Fleur de sel”, the expensive sea salt that crystallises in the sun on the surface of embanked seawater and is scooped off by honest manual labour. Turns out that it generally contains more microplastics than salt obtained from down below the surface – irrespective of where you buy it or at which price!

Producers don’t see any problem in this, as “daily luxury salt intake is negligible.” According to their logic, the amounts of DDT, dioxins or heavy metals that accumulate in polymers are all the more negligible. And why should we humans be better off than fish, birds, or camels anyway?