This is a public service announcement. It is not funny, or related to lolcows in any way. It is entirely about horribly avaricious chemical companies and incompetent government.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has just announced plans to roll back regulations on the amount of PFOA/PFAS/C8 allowed in drinking water across America. Essentially, these are manmade chemicals that take an extremely long time to break down, including when they get inside your body through contaminated water. There is a 99% chance that your bloodstream contains these chemicals right now.
This is a problem because in 2005, a massive study was undertaken in West Virginia as part of a lawsuit against the company primarily responsible for PFOA/PFAS/C8 contamination, DuPont. The study sampled the blood of seventy thousand people in an attempt to figure out if these chemicals are dangerous to your health. Studying this amount of data took years, and eventually the chemicals were positively linked to many horrific health complications, including birth defects and cancer. In 2017, DuPont was forced to pay a $671 million settlement to the 3,550 individuals identified as having been affected by PFOA/PFAS/C8 contamination in the study, and they paid $1 billion in cases related to the chemicals in 2024.

This is Bucky Bailey, born in 1981 to a woman who worked at DuPont in West Virginia. His right eye is a few inches lower than where it should be, because they wanted to sell more Teflon.
These chemicals are demonic manmade horrors that should not exist. Non stick frying pans and other industrial applications do not justify their existence. They are literally poison. I encourage anyone who is concerned about this to first, educate yourself more on the topic, then contact your elected representatives, and respectfully indicate your displeasure with the situation.
If you are concerned about yourself and your immediate family, be advised that reverse osmosis water filter systems are the most effective option for filtering these chemicals out of your drinking water. They are expensive and complicated, and remove other essential minerals such as calcium as well. This is not really an issue if you, as an adult, have a good diet, but if you have children, especially young children, you may want to consult a professional about whether or not you should include mineral supplements in their diets after installing a reverse osmosis system.