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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What MAHA is thinking about this?
You assume that they are thinking in the first place.
Eat the poison you filthy pleabs.
-The EPA on behalf of the rich donors
i am so glad i already have a terminal illness. this world is fucked.
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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
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.
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
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.
Most don’t vote at all
Gotta remember that that’s what some voted for
I feel like states should just ban this shit.
…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.
And if you’re not poor, they’ll make you poor.
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.
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.
when these chemicals do eventually break down they break down into things that are harder to filter.
The very point with PFAS is that they don’t break down. At least not without serious energy input.
And membrane filters catch sodium chloride, which is way smaller than PFAS molecules.
Of course they did. Trump ended the EPA months ago. Think “invasion of the body snatchers” but for government.
As if we need another reason to boycott mercan food. They are explicit about poisoning people now!
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
that statement applies equally to both
Americans are fucking twats. What a pathetic excuse for a country they’ve become.
oh well.
You fucking loser, kicking people while they’re down. I’ve been voting against this shit my entire life.
You think the forces that did this to us aren’t targeting your country? You’re in for some fun times ahead
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…
