New research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that “greatly exceed” safety levels.
This kind of stuff is like starring into the abyss.
There are ancient metallurgical sites from thousands of years ago that produced copper and bronze. They’re still heavily contaminated with arsenic from the smelting and refining processes. What horrors are we leaving for those to come?
great. just fucking great. capital accumulation is going to kill us all, as slowly as possible
Because I honestly bet that the soy feminization memes were started as a corporate action by meat lobbyists to create a culture war against meat alternatives (I’m being truly serious with this take).
Jesus and then even before that you had the freaking pork board of the midwest putting funding into making sure bacon was on fucking everything in the 1970s. It’s like how cereal companies warped the american breakfast that my own parents get weird feelings when I advocate eating breakfasts from other cultures that contain vegetables in them (like fucking shakshuka or breakfast lentils). The American diet is a fucking Walmart aisle…
Grew up down river of an industrial plant dumping some type of this shit straight into a river for like 3 decades. Whole lower watershed, few hundred thousand people, drink bottled water now indefinitely. Cancer rates are noticably higher and health outcomes are lower than the region generally.
A calculated decision was made on how many people the owners were willing to knowingly poison for profit. And I don’t know if they ever knew how many that number would really be, but I know that their answer would never change.
I grew up in an identical place. Someone I knew from the fourth grade got cancer and moved. Someone else I knew from the second grade lost their sister because of cancer as she entered highschool. I don’t have cancer to my knowledge but I’ve never felt good physically here, just practically permanently tired to some degree.
