Another example of companies prioritizing profit over the health of people.

One of the worst things about this is that it's all convenience chemicals. Teflon pans, waterproof fabrics, cheap foodwrappers, gortex shoes and so on is nothing necessary to human kind. Other options are avalible, sure some less effective, but maybe we need to stop being so damn overly comfy all the time.

@crypton_8l87

22 күн бұрын

Great comment. Absolutely.

@owangejewice

11 күн бұрын

PFAS is used in firefighting equipment, space suits, packages that preserve food and medicine, surgical equipment and so much more. You only think that PFAS is a luxury chemical because you probably don't do anything or need anything that is dangerous enough to require PFAS to preserve your life.

@jamianjacobs5898

11 күн бұрын

☠️ is convenient in America. All the treats we love to consume are really tricks. We enjoy them but they hurt us immensely. The worse it is for us is the more we like it. Then we build a ritual around (habit) the items consumption making it an addiction eventually. Convenience gives way to ritual. The ritual consistently and steadily consumes its participants. Bit by bit. Until cancer or other incurable diseases pop up and then they consume the consumer. Live by the forever chemical, die by the forever chemical. To be a consumer is to be consumed by consumerism.

@exDivinityFPS

8 күн бұрын

@@owangejewice Keep telling yourself that while my hundred fifty thousand neighbors die of cancers all because you can't use a spatula to separate an egg from a pan.

@BrittishCats

7 күн бұрын

@@owangejewice Still convenience chemicals. PFAS is already being phase out in PPE like FFE since it's an elevatated risk of cancer and going to space ain't necessary for human kind. What is necessary tho is protecting workers and citizens from exposure to dangerous carninogens. The risk/benefit is off the wall and the colleteral damage should never be accepted.

Outstanding documentary. A real public service to everyone in North Carolina and beyond.

This demotivates me to go to America for my further studies... feel bad for these people... Hope america remains as stable as it was during 90s... ❤❤❤

@snowman374th

3 ай бұрын

IT'S WORLD WIDE.. WATCH DARK WATER OR LOOK IT UP.. YOU'LL SEE. NO ONE ANYWHERE IS SAFE

@jennifertarin4707

3 ай бұрын

This isn't just an America problem. This is happening around the world.

@junglesuperstar9270

Ай бұрын

@@jennifertarin4707nope.

@crypton_8l87

22 күн бұрын

This is all over the world, dude. In the US and Europe, there are mandatory tests to identify polluted systems.. What about the rest of the world? Nobody knows and nobody cares.

@owangejewice

11 күн бұрын

"Stable during the 90s"? You were probably young and didn't see a lot of what happened here. Red blood, white lies and the thin blue line go back to our founding.

The scary this is there are forever chemicals in the plastic water bottles they are giving her

@yygg9786

Ай бұрын

at this point i wonder what doesnt have forever chemicals!

And yet deregulation is getting wider support.

WHY DID IT TAKE 44 YEARS TO DISCOVER ALL THIS ??????

@CT-vm4gf

Ай бұрын

It was discovered decades ago that.

@outdoorsy01

Ай бұрын

It was known years ago. Chose to ignore

@owangejewice

11 күн бұрын

Just like climate change, we knew. We knew.

@tonynunez6539

9 күн бұрын

Republicans protect these companies.

@nolanholmberg311

19 сағат бұрын

When you are a corporate entity like DuPont and you are based in a country like the united states of america. You can just use your ungodly amount of money to bribe (lobby) the government and their officals to look the other way. Unlike most other first world countries on earth, the USA is quite unique in their legalizing a institutionalizing corruption and bribery by calling it 'lobbying' and making it legal. There's a reason your congressman couldn't give a single crap about you and your issues but will HOP SKIP AND JUMP INTO ACTION when their corporate benefactors ask them to write a law to give them our tax money, deregulate them, get rid of lawsuits for them, etc.

My son died pf liver disease and my husband has prostate and colon canser i have kidney disease

This is terrible !!! Dupont/Chemours ought to be held responsible for all this !!! Pay billions out !!!!!

@laurastabell2489

6 күн бұрын

PFOS causes death from other diseases like Covid. It triggers something called "immune hyperreactivity"- aka cytokine storms. People didnt die from Covid, they died from PFOS causing an extreme inflammatory reaction to a disease that sent them into shock and then death. That explains why so many people died almost immediately after intubation with teflon medical tubing. Nurses started refusing to intubate and people stopped dying in the hospital. Now the supreme court is deciding if the president can get away with that. Presidental immunity could keep a leader from being held liable for assisting a corporate "person" to kill the sick citizens that can harm that corpirate person from doing their profit making job. The president did the corporations involved a huge favor getting rid of all the people who were sick from PFOS with co-morbidities like cancer and adult onset diabetes that are also from PFOS poisoning, who could sue them...had they lived. This is why citizens united should never have been enacted. Corporations are now considered "people" under the constitution- except that they can give money to a PAC anonymously. Something called " The Freedom PAC" might really be the KEEP Teflon on the market PAC or the Hide the truth about the 600,000 people a year dying from our toxic products PAC. We dont have a way to know. There was already a supreme court ruling in the 1980's that corporations legally exist only to make profits for their shareholders. That was how this went on for so long also. Greed and inhumanity are the law of our land.

I learned this all today in class.

@Dana9437

Күн бұрын

that's great! are you in high school or college?

@preciouscry

23 сағат бұрын

@@Dana9437 college

why on earth would they discharge it to a river!????????

@cardphins68

28 күн бұрын

$$$$, what else? It's still a tragedy no matter.

@crypton_8l87

22 күн бұрын

All discharge goes into water systems. It's physics.

@yygg9786

19 күн бұрын

@@crypton_8l87 but why

@owangejewice

11 күн бұрын

That was like plan d for them, initially they tried to mix the chemical runoff with potato starch to make a porridge they could sell to poor people. No joke, you can't make this stuff up.

@nolanholmberg311

19 сағат бұрын

Shareholder profits. Duh. Capitalism 101. It's cheaper to dump your chemical waste into a nearby river than to properlly dispose of it. That's why regulations exist to begin with. Cause them boys in the late 1800s early 1900s realize that you can't trust a company to do the right thing when their ENTIRE purpose is to make as much money as possible. The government has to hold them accountable because if not them, no one else will. However because the united states is one of the only countries on earth that made Bribery and Corruption legal by defining it as 'lobbying' and that's how companies like Dupont who have in the past and continue to this day, poison our country will have little accountability. Because they spend millions of dollars per year bribing our politicians to look the other way.

Thank you Beth Marquesino. Bless.

@bethmarkesino839

Ай бұрын

Thank you for all your support and advocacy Noni!!

No such problems here in this part of Australia. Beautiful untouched remnants of the original rainforest that covered Australia 2 wells and a bore and 3 100,000 rainwater tanks of nothing but crystal clear pure water. Just show though in this video that Americans and big companies don't care.

@warrenhall7060

24 күн бұрын

YOUR WRONG THERE BUDDY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO CARE WE ARE RULED BY A POLICE STATE IF YOU HAVENT NOTICED AND POWERLESS TO DO MUCH ABOUT IT SO WHY DONT YOU STFU...

The Camp Lejeune Marine Corps/ Navy military base, is perhaps the most well- known, widespread, and long- running water contamination case in North Carolina... But, apparently this is a huge problem both on military bases and in the civilian arena - and, in many states. This is outrageous and shameful - that the government more often than not, covers up, downplays, and ignores such things. Who knows how many are affected? It has been up to a few activists and lawyers, and some victims themselves, to make legislative changes and initiate litigation.

everything has a risk and side efect. how could they be so ignorant and put chemicals to everything!?

@jamianjacobs5898

Ай бұрын

Not ignorance. Prudent and diabolically planned. Toxicology on food products are always tested for safety and efficacy PRIOR to public sale. This is a big part of what the FDA does as a bureaucracy. Since these chemicals have made it into everything, who was in charge of the FDA to conclude that these poisons are somehow “safe”? Safe poison is a literal oxymoron. No such thing. The issue with lawsuits is “causation or causal factors“, associated directly with cancer. The online bots and hypocritical sycophants all agree that, a minuscule amount of a “forever chemical “ minimally consumed is not enough to definitively say that the “chemical in question “ is the sole “cause” of the alleged diseases suffered by mammals/humans beings. Okay fine. No American consumer, consumes only one contaminated product. Many corporations follow the same model of using the cheapest ingredients which coincides with poor health. When those cheap ingredients come packaged in contaminated plastics, it is an unmitigated health disaster. Why? Because advertising attacks our instincts and insecurities; masterful diabolical manipulation of the masses. We become addicted to, and we think the worst products for our health, will somehow make us healthier and happier. They make poisons affordable and conveniently accessible for all. For burgers to chips, soft drinks, and dinner ware, clothing and shoes, inside our vehicles and our carpets. This means, a little for breakfast with your coffee, at lunch and dinner daily, the 3 hours we spend inside our cars DAILY, the showers we take and the water we drink, make for a far more significant exposure rate than what the supporters of these chemicals claim. These chemicals build up in our bodies and have been proven to remain in the human body for at least 4 years from initial exposure/ingestion. This time frame is correlated with the LEGAL EXPOSURE LIMITS imposed by the FDA/EPA. However, it is nearly impossible not to consume PFAS/PFOAS because of their ubiquitous corporate popularity. Plus the agencies meant to protect the people are on the take. How many former corporate executives have taken root in the EPA and FDA? Worth a 👀. No theories. None. There exists a confluence of actions at the corporate level. Across industries, if these forever chemicals could be used , they have been and there have been little to no viable alternatives presented to the public. So, corporations have not only been greedy, they have also been complicit in keeping public health in a steadily declining state, yet science lies and says people are living longer. No. We CAN live longer, yet we don’t because everything we consume is contaminated with enough “safe and acceptable amounts” of poison. A little here and there adds up. If the consumer doesn’t actively eliminate these toxins then there is a near certainty that they will contract disease.

@owangejewice

11 күн бұрын

Don't look down your nose at the past. You're eating a chemical for dinner tonight that we will be cleaning up and warning about in the very near future.

WELL WHEN THE PEOPLE RISE UP AND START HOLDING THEIR EMPLOYEES ACCOUNTABLE... THEN MAYBE WE CAN HOLD THE COMPANY ACCOUNTABLE AFTER THEY STOP FIGHING FOR THAT JOB.

So everything is being contaminated means means plants vegetable food everything grow with water is being contaminated

The river can dramatically cleaned out, called 'dredgeing''/sucking out from bottom of river..esp. in the ume area.

Sounds like another " Erin Brockovich " story. Very hurtful, even sinful that Dupont/employees did this all these years !!! State of North Carolina ought to hold the company responsible or did the State of N.C. kn of this and were paid off ???

sue the companies involved & the City you live in.

Just watched the Love Canal documentary and its so weird that in this one, their bottled water is by a brand named Niagara smh

dear Emily, everyone living in that 'plume' area should be getting " Chelation Therapy'. It will take the PFAS, PFOA's, etc out of the body. Professionals all over the country do this procedure in their offices .Ck it out & spread the word.

@963ag

17 күн бұрын

Chelation helps with heavy metals, but not volatile organic compounds... Toxins can fall into various groups... I am affected by the Camp Lejeune water contamination, and learned that chelation doesn't help with the toxins there- PCE, TCE, benzene, etc. Nor does it help with dioxins.

If we don't make some serious life style and mind set changes now we are all going to regret it. This statement is nowhere near as urgent and chilling as it needs to be.

@963ag

17 күн бұрын

Water is necessary for life... If the government covers up serious issues, how are unfortunate people to know that what they are using contains toxins? Often the truth doesn't come out until decades after the damage has been done!

Forever chemicals are everywhere and it's still produced

The bottles they supply for drinking water also has plastic in them

Hey, ANDREW BOWLGARTE, how is this 'bias' video like you stated ?? pls. educate us !!

Where do they think the water in bottles comes from?…. The ground beneath us. There’s no safe water.

how can it be purified?

really thats there answer ?? I think what they do is they chose the advocate rather then claim responsibility I think they chose the advocate that makes their company be looked at with the least amount of guilt !!!!!

That is the 'plume' area.

Play the California to

Where was the State of NC EPA all these years ??? And the federal EPA cking on this company ???? No accountability all these years ????????

START BOYCOTTING!!!😮😮😮

@2011hib

Ай бұрын

How do you boycott water 🫤

@jamianjacobs5898

Ай бұрын

@@2011hib really?

@jamianjacobs5898

Ай бұрын

@@2011hib who out the chemicals into the water in the first place? That is who should be boycotted. Not the water sweet child.🧐😳🤔🫤😐🤮😵‍💫

@exDivinityFPS

8 күн бұрын

@@jamianjacobs5898 The only acceptable solution is a permanent closure of the facilities and the leadership of the companies being jailed and held accountable for the deaths they are directly responsible for.

Hold Republicans accountable for deregulation and protecting these companies.

#Kennedy2024 #Kennedy24

Move from toxic Michigan, then to toxic NC , and blame NC ?

@bethmarkesino839

Ай бұрын

Hi Andrew. I’m Beth Markesino and was featured in WRAL’s documentary about PFAS. I am part of Dr Jane Hoppin’s Genx human health study. The PFAS chemicals in my blood are the same chemicals that Chemours uses in North Carolina. These chemicals were also found in my drinking water.

@dhh488

20 күн бұрын

Moron comment of the week.

Yes genx is terrible, but very bios video here

@noniboalt9548

2 ай бұрын

Better check your water source.

@andrewbowlgarte4738

Ай бұрын

@@noniboalt9548 i just properly filter my water now days , no test , as I do not want to be liable for my well and loose my investment on my off grid property, if I sell