Forever chemicals: ‘Shocking’ discovery of PFAS in European pesticides
Forever chemicals: ‘Shocking’ discovery of PFAS in European pesticides
A new report exposes the ‘urgent’ threat of forever chemicals in pesticides, as it calls for tighter EU regulation.
[...] A new joint report from the two NGOs has found that 37 active substances currently approved for use in pesticides are PFAS. That equates to 12 per cent of all approved synthetic substances. [...]
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Wow, game over then. Looks like we're all fucked. Apart from my son, who shuns vegetables.
Go for organics instead (obviously only an option if finances allow for it).
Eating animal products certainly is not the answer. Not least since those animals usually are fed with soy/corn grown in regions where pesticide use is not particularly well-regulated.
"Forever chemicals" is only mostly true anymore. There are ways to deal with at least some of them, although them being in the environment already makes it a lot harder. If humans would stop emitting, there'd be a chance of slowly getting to a better state again though.
Eating meat doesn't save you. Animals eat pesticide-laced plants, you (or our son) eats animal. It doesn't magically disappear in-between.
"Chronic exposure to a glyphosate-containing pesticide leads to mitochondrial dysfunction and increased reactive oxygen species production in Caenorhabditis elegans." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29190595