The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing “forever chemicals” as an active ingredient, dismissing concerns about health and environmental impacts raised by some scientists and activists.
This month, the agency approved two new pesticides that meet the internationally recognized definition for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or fluorinated substances, and has announced plans for four additional approvals. The authorized pesticides, cyclobutrifluram and isocycloseram, which was approved Thursday, will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
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Are there any water filters that are proven to filter PFAS?
And what about irrigation water that is contaminated and sprayed on the organic crops?
I get the rich people hate, but this does feel like an issue that will impact literally everyone. Once something is in the water cycle it’s hard to get rid of it.
You can't filter out PFAS from the food chain.
Agricultural runoff gets into water supplies. In water supplies it gets used for irrigation, drinking water for animals, or goes out to sea.
In each case forever chemicals will just build up.
So even like that wagyu beef or wild caught fish eventually is just poisoning you.
Plus PFAS are notorious for being difficult to filter and when they do break down they break down into smaller halomethanes/haloalkanes which are also typically toxic and even harder to filter conventionally. The main way to eliminate halomethanes is to bubble water to evaporate them into the air. A slow process which will make the contaminants airborne.
Of course what does it matter if you get a new beach house courtesy of Bayer or Monsanto
Nah, the wealthy can use extremely expensive cutting edge filtering methods that remove all PFAS chemicals. I've done a whole research project on this. There are a handful of different methods, it's just that it's prohibitively expensive to scale up.
That's the reason why the EU only imports very selected kinds of food from the US. And even then, most of those are specially produced for export.
- Among the thousands of beef farmers in the US, there is only a handful certified for export to Europe.
- Kelloggs produces two kinds of Fruit Loops: One for the US market, and the other for export, which does not contain the chemicals that are illegal even in China of all places.
At least my state has lots of warning labels ready
Environmental Poisoning Agency
As an American I agree, I don’t trust our government to do the right thing and big corporations run all our farms. I don’t trust them to do the right thing either.
Unfortunately, that shit gets into the water and makes its way everywhere.
The "fun" part is that 'forever chemicals' really are what they're claiming to be on the label. Practically every living thing on the planet has some PFAS stuff in their body. Veritasium made a video about that a while back.
Why are people mostly silent about this shit?
Please, please, please start spreading this awareness with everybody you know!
From the article:
The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report all products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals.
So they are deliberately trying to cover up the pollution crisis in the US.
We test for, regulate, and monitor about 100 chemicals in our water. There are many, many thousands of chemicals that could be present in our water and harming our health.
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Because everyday all day we’re bombarded by evil atrocities our government is committing on us and others and they dgaf what we think. We’re tired. It’s looking more and more like the entire world needs to overthrow the wealthy in solidarity
Who wants to live to old age anyways?
You think the forces that did this to us aren’t targeting your country? You’re in for some fun times ahead
You fucking loser, kicking people while they're down. I've been voting against this shit my entire life.
I think voting is not enough, people need to get active politically, ideally with other parties than blue or red.
In the USA all other political parties are effectively barred from participation. The barriers are high the costs are worse.
That's why there are so many pushes to get RCV on the books. Also why many Republican-controlled states are preemptively banning it, because they know they'd never get power again if it was a truly open and fair primary/general. Some establishment Democrats are trying to ban it too because they also benefit by the duopoly.
Now, I am not a very eco-friendly kind of person...but I don't trust the Trump Regime to not fuck up. Their approvals here will almost certainly kill people, and probably wouldn't even benefit capitalists in the long run.
Of course they did. Trump ended the EPA months ago. Think "invasion of the body snatchers" but for government.
What MAHA is thinking about this?
i am so glad i already have a terminal illness. this world is fucked.
Never trust anything the fda says or does. Ever. Its a for sale organization.
I got into an argument the other day with someone cause I said Americas food is poison. And they said i was simply trash talking America with no proof. No proof? Uhhhhhh
EPA: You can poison food now!
Mega Corps: Thanks for the heads up, but we won't!
Like that would ever happen.
This is telling mega corps they can freely poison people for money now.
I know prices can be prohibitive, but the more we can buy organic, the better. It's the only alternative agricultural method that has gained enough commercial traction that, if it ever does become popular enough, has the possibility of making the pesticide-dependent model infeasible as a business model.
I have skepticisms about the accuracy of that claim. Measuring yield isn't necessarily cut and dry in the first place.
Big picture, conventional agriculture is not sustainable, and moreover, we are always going to continue having these toxic pollutions occur so long as we continue to depend on conventional ag. The only way to stop the poison is to stop taking the poison.
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