3M poisoned you
and
every other person
on earth.
The long form article on ProPublica is worth reading
https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
The company should be dismantled and every executive involved in the coverup should be subjected to a swim in a PFAS plunge pool. My fucking god. What is the point of regulations if we cannot hold these people accountable?
PFAS is transmitted in utero. Your kids are born with 3M’s coating for nonstick pans coursing through their veins. It’s monstrous and not one politician has the balls to do anything about it.
All The Stuff in Your Home That Might Contain PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’
If you put on a pair of soft contact lenses this morning you took a greater risk than you might realize. Soft lenses seem very eye-friendly; they’re smooth, comfortable, allow oxygen to reach the eye and, if they’re disposable, they don’t give bacteria any time to grow. What’s not to like? Well, one very important thing, actually.
According to tests commissioned by the consumer watchdog site Mamavation and the green group Environmental Health News, a random sampling of 18 popular brands of soft lenses sent to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-certified lab all tested positive for PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Also known as “forever chemicals”—because that’s pretty much how long they linger in the environment—these persistent manufacturing chemicals exist in more than 12,000 forms, and have been linked by the EPA to a long list of health effects, including decreased fertility, high blood pressure in pregnant people, increased risk of certain cancers, developmental delays and low birthweight in children, hormonal disruption, high cholesterol, reduced effectiveness of the immune system, and more.
Not any level of PFAS exposure will lead to these health consequences, of course. And even heavy exposure does not necessarily mean that you’re going to get sick; putting in your contact lenses every morning is not a sure road to cancer or high cholesterol. But enough of these ills have turned up in enough people exposed to PFAS that the EPA and the larger community of scientists are justifiably worried about them—especially because of their persistence in the environment.
People get outraged about microplastics and other garbage being in their body, but not outraged at the types of reasons these things are happening. There is no protection of your health.
https://x.com/fastlerner”>@fastlerner is one of the best reporters on these things – unwavering truth.