I listen to the Last Podcast on the Left and I’m learning now about the DuPonts. I’m astounded how it may seem like so little people know of them aside from the listeners. These are actual demons in living people to do the things they do. For example, they’re responsible for Teflon which is produced using C8 chemical. This is a forever chemical.
To give you an idea as to how royally fucked the world has been, Teflon is in numerous things that we use everyday. It is in the non-stick cookware we use. It’s in waterproof fabrics. Food packaging. Just a lot of shit. And we use these things - every. day. This chemical, once it is in you, it’s in you until even through death hence it being a forever chemical and there’s no way you can be rid of it. It can spawn cancerous cells in your body.
And I’m just listening to all of this thinking “Forget half of the shit we’re gearing our anger towards, it’s THESE people we need to draw and quarter!” because of the insurmountable damage and influence they’ve been in so many things that has everyone’s lives in a stranglehold.
I remember learning about DuPont, goodness, more than a decade ago?
Im anti consumerous. I dont buy platics that are easily avoidable, I cook with steel, wood, and cast iron, my tupperware is all glass. I buy spices/beans/graims in bulk at the co-op. I havnt used amazon in years, walmart I avoid like the plauge. By this I mean, avoiding plastics basically. I try and feed myself and my family homecooked meals from scratch always. My Kid (anyone for that matter) gets second hand or locally sourced gifts. I do with less, I am poor. I practice gardening though im not very good.
Most of these giant chemical companies are evil. they polluted the mississippi river, we had acid rain in the 80’s and regulation fixed it. They are now undoing the regulations.
I been mad for decades. I get so mad when the general populace continues to use these products from companies who dont give a fuck about their emoloyees nor their consumers. Money wins, peofits over all and its digusting.
years ago I went to a dinner party. A southern girl was dating my friend. A lovely person, but, if we set aside the meal she prepared had not a single veggie, her teflon pans were all peeling. like, if you made something in the pan, it looked like you added cracked pepper but didnt. Horrible. We were both pregnant. I used being pregnant (nausea) as an excuse not to eat as everyone else did.
Couple years ago the guy my husband paid to mow our lawn showed up with roundup. started spraying right by my broccoli. I said not to spray, they didnt ask, and fired them. Took over the lawncare from my husband. I let my grass grow longer than anyone elses in my neighborhood. I plant native plants, and leave the leaves for the bugs.
I changed many many habits while learning about all this. Keep learning, change your buying habits, dont give the elites your money, and try to educate folks when appropriate.
Without chemical companies, the modern world wouldn’t exist.
It’s easier to say OK let’s go back to the Stone Age but who’s going to pick the 6 billion people that have to die so we can do that because there’s no way that subsistence agriculture can keep 9 billion people alive.
Sure, there have been plenty of evil people who work for chemical companies have done evil things.
But no more than the evil bankers that allow cities to exist wit lh their high density, housing, and sidewalks bike paths that everybody loves.
oh yeah, good luck making a bicycle without vulcanized rubber
This is just sentiments of a child who doesn’t understand the world they live in.