French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution

Or, just ban things with high levels of pfas being used as fertilizer, and test the paper slurry?

But I'm personally not too worried about ingesting pfas from pfas lined products!

First off - the water cycle has already been infiltrated by them, you can look it up, but rainfall all over the world contains significant pfas, I think the strong image people keep is that it's raining pfas in the Himalayas. This has been going on a few years if I recall right.

So it's already pretty bad - you're ingesting them in water( water treatment does treat those away in most of the US and Canada (from what I'm aware of)) But also in everything that ingests that water, like plants and the ground. This also means that any food that is transformed has a good chance of concentrating PFAS into itself.

Second reason is that the reason we use PFAS is because they are very strong and hard to break down. It's unlikely that your coffee cup will infuse a large amount of pfas in the coffee because it was put there to be a barrier, if it shed material easily it wouldn't be a good surface treatment.

The issue is what the article talked about : PFAS in waste breaking down into very small particles that are tough to handle and are very mobile in the environnement. By using more and more PFAS in manufacturing, we're creating more waste that will emit PFAS particles into the environnement - meaning the water cycle, and then we poison the whole world.

We need regulation! People don't even know they are participating to the problem.

“We didn’t know that used stuff was toxic.” Does not hold as an argument because stuff for recycling is often toxic it’s something we know, everyone should know, it’s obvious, assume it, don’t keep coming back saying “hey didn’t realize this or that was toxic and should be in landfill instead of recycled”.

Don’t recycle plastic and paper and use it for food and drink.

Don’t recycle car tires into roads and playgrounds and later realize they leach microplastics and are cancer causing.

We need to stop recycling toxic shit then saying “we didn’t know”.

1. Drinking demineralized water results in an obvious multi-mineral deficiency, considering that we actually rely on drinking water for meeting a meaningful subset of our calcium, magnesium and other mineral intake. Even moderate supplementation won't correct it -- it takes a double dose to prevent it under RO.

2. Demineralized water causes minerals to be leeched from the body, also from the bones. This is to balance the water. It would also stress and deplete the bicarbonate reserve of the body to neutralize its acidity.

3. The extreme solubility of demineralized water unnaturally increases the absorption of heavy metals from foods and supplements which would otherwise go unabsorbed.

As for acidic water, it's straight-up bad for the kidneys, bones, and the spleen. It will boost the odds of kidney stones, weak bones, and a deteriorating immune system. Try measuring the urine pH to realize the effect. Granted, bicarbonate will buffer it, but the body's capacity to do this is fairly limited.

The PFAS story is a pretty nasty one.

Once we return to a more grounded concept of money, perhaps gold based, where debts are a lot more controlled due to an absence of uncontrolled moneyprinting, growth can then slow down, allowing us more time to digest what's actually good for us and what's not.