Name: ストローを禁止すると人が傷つく // 最後のストロー!禁断のストローを禁止してください。 (Banning Straws Hurts People // The Last Straw! [CC])
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:43:12.000Z
Duration: 11 min 53 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Hello! You've been sent this video to explain the disabled point of view on why the straw ban is a bad thing.

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The person who sent it to you has probably already had this conversation five times today.

Part of my condition means I have to drink between 8 to 10 litres a day.

I drink everything through a straw because my wrists are quite weak and my hands shake,

Side note: Yes, that is why I have such lovely white teeth *ding*

If you're able-bodied or have a disability that doesn't require the use of straws,

you're probably a little confused about how talk around a tiny luxury has blown SO out of control.

Fun fact: The first targeted sales of bendable straws in 1947 were to hospitals,

as the bend means patients can drink in bed;

they're sterile; don't disintegrate; and can be used with hot liquids.

Now, plastic is seen as cheap, wasteful and harmful to the environment.

Yes, I say "plah-stic." I'm very British, OK?

These things are all true, but plastic is also an essential part of my health and wellness.

We should all be reducing our plastic consumption,

but disabled people who use straws aren't just saying, "Screw you!" to the environment,

We genuinely want to help the planet, but we can't sacrifice ourselves in the process.

The majority of us have taken up reusable straws

and it's only in a pinch that we need the disposable ones,

Yes, it would be better if someone could invent something that functions as well as a bendable plastic straw

we can't just outright ban something people need.

For those of you who don't actually know what the straw ban is, though...

In 2015, a video of a sea turtle with a straw stuck up its nose went viral.

Campaigns to eliminate straws soon followed.

Across the world, various companies and cities have decided that the best way to reduce their plastic

Starbucks plans to faze out plastic straws by 2020;

McDonald's will ban plastic straws in its UK and Ireland restaurants.

Alaska Airlines will be the first airline to faze out the use of plastic straws,

and the entire city of Seattle has banned them.

Since 8 million tons of plastic flow into the oceans every year,

it is very right that we do something about it.

Ian Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house,

has introduced a bill to stop restaurants from offering straws to customers,

Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a straw that has not been asked for

could face up to six month's in prison and a 1,000 dollar fine.

Although our ban on plastic straws does come from a wonderful place - concern for our ecosystem -

it inadvertently harms those with disabilities.

Plastic straws are considered unnecessary items, used by environmentalists as a gateway plastic

to engage the public in more of a conversation about environmentalism.

But! One person's ecological conversation starter is another person's nutritional lifeline.

Going without straws can mean struggling through the physical motion of getting a drink up to one's lips

For many people who need straws, materials other than plastic just doesn't do the job.

You've likely been sent this video because you asked, "Have you considered re-usable alternatives?"

We've all seen the memes about mansplaining,

and this is veering into...able-splaining.

So here's why the alternatives don't work for everyone, in handy graph form.

Metal: it's an allergy risk, for one thing.

Oh, and a terrible injury risk, especially if you have seizures or a very soft palate.

I--oh, I just don't wanna think about that.

They also aren't positionable, which means they can't be moved and then stay that way.

They got hot if you put them in hot liquids.

They're hard to sanitize, and the cost can be prohibitive.

Also, I don't really want to think about the amount of this plastic coating I have now ingested.

Paper! The straw people most commonly recommend:

Did you know some people can be allergic to them?

They're also a choking hazard, as they fall apart and then can be sucked or breathed in.

Although they are floppy enough to be bent back on themselves,

God. That was a week I do not want to re-live.

Also, choking hazard, because it does--you know, it's hard, but then it does break.

Injury risk, because they can break your teeth.

and then does actually dissolve with prolonged use.

Bamboo: Allergy--can you see where I'm going with this?

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