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I'd be more concerned about the "fermented in a plastic bag" part. Who knows what chemicals leech into it from that. I doubt prisoners are sourcing food grade plastics for their prison moonshine.
But... if Diddy does die from this, the reaction will be "Well that tracks..."
I mean, it's a negligible amount of microplastics compared to the fact that he's in prison wearing orange polyester and eating from probably plastic trays and getting plastic-packaged commissary food.
Realistically, if the hooch ferments too warm, that would make methanol, which would make him go blind. But that's like 92 or 95 degrees IIRC, so it's probably a low risk.
I would worry more about the macroplastics of shivs if I were him.
Also on the methanol concern, while the headline is calling it moonshine, which for most people probably calls to mind a distilled spirit with probably 40+% abv
But really we're talking about pruno here, prison wine, so probably more like a quarter of that if they're lucky.
I doubt they fucked it up badly enough and had enough of it to really make methanol poisoning a real concern.
Oh yeah, for sure - I didn't even register the details of the headline once I saw the link to OK Magazine. They've been doing word salad to try and outdo People or Us Weekly for decades. I'm surprised they didn't call it "High Octane Jet Fuel!"
Meanwhile, it's really just fizzy warm hooch that's probably closer to 6-8% ABV if they can even get enough sugars to ferment. Actual concerns about methanol are really only in warm, tropical locations where it's already hot out and the entire fermentation is too hot, start to finish. But that's a real concern, maybe Diddy put it in a warm spot to ferment faster, as opposed to "ew, it's in a bag? microplastics? yuck." I dunno, it's also stupid we have to even talk about this.