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appalachiablue

(43,745 posts)
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 08:23 AM Sunday

Plastic Makers Have A Big Secret: They're Experimenting On You 🥤


- More Perfect Union, 2024, (15 mins). 🥡Microplastics are everywhere - in our waterways and in our bodies. But the corporations responsible are facing no consequences - and making billions. Our brains and our blood now contain microplastics and it's time for the perpetrators to face consequences. [Monsanto now operates under the Bayer name].
https://perfectunion.us/

- YouTube comment: 'My wife just died from aggressive pancreatic cancer.. came on in months. We are the Teflon generation, one big experiment.'
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- PFAS CHEMICALS, 'Forever Chemicals,' Teflon. EWG/Environmental Working Group, The PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in 99% of Americans 🍟

In 1946, DuPont introduced Teflon to the world, changing millions of people’s lives – and polluting their bodies. Today, the family of compounds including Teflon, commonly called PFAS, is found not only in pots and pans but also in the blood of people around the world, including 99% of Americans. PFAS chemicals pollute water, do not break down, and remain in the environment and people for decades. Some scientists call them “forever chemicals."
https://www.ewg.org/areas-focus/toxic-chemicals/pfas-chemicals
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GiqueCee

(3,150 posts)
2. Chemical companies...
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 10:23 AM
Sunday

... and corporatists in general, know full well that they are perpetrating unspeakable evil, they just don't care. Their fallback excuse is, "Our first obligation is to our shareholders." I would say, no, your first obligation is to be a decent human being, a simple task at which you have failed miserably.

GreenWave

(12,121 posts)
3. I am sure Free Market Republicans will howl at them for NOT capturing their externalities!
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 10:45 AM
Sunday

NOT! sadly

Iwasthere

(3,461 posts)
4. Our bodies are taking in 1 credit cards worth of plastic per week
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 03:40 PM
Sunday

[link:We consume up to a credit card’s worth of plastic *every* week | CNN https://share.google/uonyzBofDHCapK2rg|

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