...they're giving me cancer while simultaneously quadrupling my health insurance payments. My government has decided to kill me.
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Only if you are poor. That's the goal.
Only poor people eat produce and drink water?
Rich people have organic food and water filters.
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.
Zero filters claim to filter PFAS. I don't know if certified organic produce allows these chemicals to be used, but the organization that certifies food is also federal, so there's no reason to trust it. I'm really hoping organic produce is safe from this. I would be able to get produce at Costco which is often both organic and affordable.
For filters with semipermeable membranes, like sea water filters, FPAS and similar molecules are way too big to pass.
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Even though, the burden of treating the side effects would be much less felt by the rich
Maybe but many eat at restaurants etc. I would actually expect rich people have relatively high baseline exposure outside affected communities.
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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
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I have bad news about forever chemicals for whatever dumbass thinks this will only affect poor people.
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.
And if you're not poor, they'll make you poor.
I'm sure that'll work wonders for US agricultural exports. /s
As if we need another reason to boycott mercan food. They are explicit about poisoning people now!
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
Every country in the world should ban food from the US.
I'm sorry if you're American, you're fucked, but it's what you guys voted for. The rest of the world should try and save itself
Gotta remember that that's what some voted for
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.
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Environmental Poisoning Agency
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.
https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/
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.
Related:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/california-pfas-forever-chemicals
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
And that's gonna slowly make its way into Canada and Mexico, yay, the US is a toxic dump site
Who wants to live to old age anyways?
I feel like states should just ban this shit.
Americans are fucking twats. What a pathetic excuse for a country they’ve become.
oh well.
Well, considering the news that a large portion of the maga online influencers are actually from foreign countries, I think maybe it’s not just their own doing…
You think the forces that did this to us aren’t targeting your country? You’re in for some fun times ahead
listen to this guy, he's a CIA chatbot so he knows what he's talking about
Keir Starmer will be drinking the PFAS gravy anyday now.
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.
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Of course they did. Trump ended the EPA months ago. Think "invasion of the body snatchers" but for government.
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.
i am so glad i already have a terminal illness. this world is fucked.
What MAHA is thinking about this?
You assume that they are thinking in the first place.
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Taking the fluoride out of the water and putting it directly into your food.
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
The article is about the EPA, though
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.
Absolutely, but the comment I replied to mentioned the FDA. Completely different entity
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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.
Probably best to do a hybrid approach, yields are higher for non organic IIRC
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