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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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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.
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
I feel like states should just ban this shit.
What a fantastic idea. I’m sure no one has pushed for that.
I mean I’ve seen GMO labels so people have gotten some far less useful stuff regulated
Anyone using protonvpn able to acces archive.ph? It never loads for me
I’m using free protonvpn and it loaded fine
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.
Of course they did. Trump ended the EPA months ago. Think “invasion of the body snatchers” but for government.
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
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.
Taking the fluoride out of the water and putting it directly into your food.
Environmental Poisoning Agency
…they’re giving me cancer while simultaneously quadrupling my health insurance payments. My government has decided to kill me.
Only if you are poor. That’s the goal.
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.
Only poor people eat produce and drink water?
Rich people have organic food and water filters.
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
Even if it’s 100% true, you’re being unnecessarily negative. It’s not a binary question, but “more” or “less”. There is definitely value in wayvpcho g the sources of your food
Nobody said “don’t watch what you eat” so don’t bullshit yourself about what’s being said here.
I’ve worked on PFAS filtration system designs that the US military funded for cities near airbases. Firefighting PFAS materials made their way into a lot of well water systems and municipal systems sometimes very far way. Its very difficult to reliably remove them from water.
These materials are hard to control once they’re out in the wild.
These materials are hard to control once they’re out in the wild.
Extremely, and that’s my bottom line to someone who claims some chemical in the hugeclass that makes up PFAShasn’t been proven harmful yet. Can we afford until it is unavoidably ubiquitous in the environment, can’t be cleaned up, and will last indefinitely? And it may already be
But I’ll also stand by: protected watershed makes a difference, filtered water makes a difference, organic food makes a difference. We’re already at the point of these chemicals being unavoidable in the environment, but we can take actions to reduce our personal exposure
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.
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.
For filters with semipermeable membranes, like sea water filters, FPAS and similar molecules are way too big to pass.
Filtration of PFAS depends on the individual makeup of each chemical. The cross section of a organic fluoride containing compound is about the same as water so I would expect for chemicals without aromatic rings or branches a membrane would not be as effective and even then what’s happening is a time bomb where when these chemicals do eventually break down they break down into things that are harder to filter.
We should be blanket restricting organohalides except iodine based ones.
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.
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
I’m sure that’ll work wonders for US agricultural exports. /s
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?
