WTF! Eating Freshwater fish equal to drinking a month's worth of water laced with PFOS

[Captainant 27,311]

For FUCKS sake, why does everyone put PFAS in fucking everything?? 

https://www.classaction.org/news/costco-lawsuit-alleges-kirkland-baby-wipes-contain-dangerous-forever-chemicals

Almost 4 parts per billion were measured by a certified lab across multiple samples from stores. The EPA limit is 4 parts per TRILLION, and the actual health concerns start at .004 parts per TRILLION. I've been using these wipes for my daughter basically since she was born a couple months ago. God damnit. 

Edited July 3 by Captainant

[drt 637]

Convenience and cost. But you knew that. 

[Captainant 27,311]

17 minutes ago, drt said:

Convenience and cost. But you knew that. 

This is some fucked up thinking that we can only have convenient and cost effective items if they're poisoning us.

It's too bad the EPA was recently stripped of its authority to regulate this sort of thing.

Truly some rot economy horseshit.

[freyguy 4,245]

everybody wants cheap plastics, whether you realize it or not.  Gonna take a few generations after this point to change things.  Drink up mofo's!

[Deej 76,511]

'I hate there's toxic plastics poisoning everything...hey, check out the deals I got on Temu!"

[drt 637]

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

This is some fucked up thinking that we can only have convenient and cost effective items if they're poisoning us.

It's too bad the EPA was recently stripped of its authority to regulate this sort of thing.

Truly some rot economy horseshit.

It’s not that we can only have them if they’re poisonous. It’s that over and over again we’ve chosen the most convenient and/or cost effective option over all else. 
 

is cast iron or steel cookware as idiot proof for eggs as Teflon? No. Is it absolutely worth it for a whole host of reasons? Yes. 
 

Plastics and health just ultimately end up being a result of short term thinking. 

[wild_turkey 3,150]

Can we update the thread to "Texas tap water laced with PFAS/PFOS"?
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/16/texas-pfas-forever-chemicals-public-water-systems-epa-limit/

My wife got pretty concerned about PFAS last year so we did some internet research and decided to install Hydroviv water filters in our house. We got the package for the kitchen sink and showerheads. We also looked at Aquasana but their system requires you to install a separate faucet on the counter.

Here’s some info Hydroviv publishes about PFAS on their site:

https://www.hydroviv.com/blogs/water-smarts/duke-nc-state-pfas-water-filter-study

If anyone wants a referral code, PM me and I think we both save $35.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,796]

1 hour ago, drt said:

It’s not that we can only have them if they’re poisonous. It’s that over and over again we’ve chosen the most convenient and/or cost effective option over all else. 
 

is cast iron or steel cookware as idiot proof for eggs as Teflon? No. Is it absolutely worth it for a whole host of reasons? Yes. 
 

Plastics and health just ultimately end up being a result of short term thinking. 

Takes more water to clean the cast iron.  So do you want to run out of water, or get cancer?  It’s comical at this point anyway, you’re washing your PFAS pans with PFAS contaminated water.  

[hookemATL 11,596]

1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Takes more water to clean the cast iron.

If you season that sumbitch right, you can just wipe it clean and never have to wash. 
 

but if I let my wife cook eggs, yeah I need about 50 gallons to clean the stucco off the pan since she doesn’t know the oil / butter method 

[freyguy 4,245]

I use a plastic scraper to help clean my cast iron.

[ImissWallyPryor 9,045]

20 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

 

My wife got pretty concerned about PFAS last year so we did some internet research and decided to install Hydroviv water filters in our house. We got the package for the kitchen sink and showerheads. We also looked at Aquasana but their system requires you to install a separate faucet on the counter.

Here’s some info Hydroviv publishes about PFAS on their site:

https://www.hydroviv.com/blogs/water-smarts/duke-nc-state-pfas-water-filter-study

If anyone wants a referral code, PM me and I think we both save $35.

 

We have a reverse osmosis system at our house. My wife can’t tolerate acidic food or drinks, so we had to add a corosex filter to raise the ph because the RO system removed the minerals the city adds to raise the ph to neutral. 

[ImissWallyPryor 9,045]

19 hours ago, hookemATL said:

but if I let my wife cook eggs, yeah I need about 50 gallons to clean the stucco off the pan since she doesn’t know the oil / butter method

My wife and daughters, too. 

[Captainant 27,311]

20 hours ago, hookemATL said:

but if I let my wife cook eggs, yeah I need about 50 gallons to clean the stucco off the pan since she doesn’t know the oil / butter method 

Bar Keepers Friend is your friend. Shit is excellent for cleaning enamels or carbon steel or stainless steel pans. You can use it on cast iron but you'll completely remove all the seasoning and take it back to bare metal

 

My wife baked some pasta onto our nice enameled dutch oven that was carbonized in some spots, and BKF took it off easy peasy with a tiny amount of scrubbing. Looked brand new again 

[Okie State 3,775]

On 7/3/2024 at 7:39 AM, drt said:

Convenience and cost. But you knew that. 

This drives the majority of decisions for people on a daily basis. Fuck everything else.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,796]

Tell me more about this corosex business.   No really, you’re going to use 50 gallons of water to wash out the peanut butter plastic, which then doesn’t get recycled anyway.   

[Captainant 27,311]

Boy howdy, hope y'all like forever chemicals and a shitload of cancer! Hope you can afford your """insurance""" premiums

The Guardian: US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling

The US air force is refusing to comply with an order to clean drinking water it polluted in Tucson, Arizona, claiming federal regulators lack authority after the conservative-dominated US supreme court overturned the “Chevron doctrine”. Air force bases contaminated the water with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” and other dangerous compounds.

Though former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and legal experts who reviewed the air force’s claim say the Chevron doctrine ruling probably would not apply to the order, the military’s claim that it would represents an early indication of how polluters will wield the controversial court decision to evade responsibility.

 

It appears the air force is essentially attempting to expand the scope of the court’s ruling to thwart regulatory orders not covered by the decision, said Deborah Ann Sivas, director of the Stanford University Environmental Law Clinic.