Can't wait to wash my produce only to have the water bead off it because they put Scotch Guard on my broccoli
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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Water already rolls off it like it's waterproof, we won't be able to tell! 
Taro: “am I a joke to you”
america in the 60s: the food is poison and that's bad
america in the 20s: the food is poison and that's very good, actually
Silent Spring but it's "thank goodness, all those birds were making such a racket"
i heard you hippies don't like silence when spending time outdoors so i bought a bunch of two-stroke leaf blowers
"Bugs are bad actually"
The cynical conspiracy part of my brain suspects they are lowering avg life expectancy on purpose. They want a young, able-bodied population for extracting the value of labor. After a certain age, you just aren't "useful" to capitalism anymore.
Yes it's always been eugenics
deteriorating public health is a less-important externality of extracting profit from the imperial core, but reducing life expectancy doesn't result in extra able-bodied labor, it's making the whole labor pool less healthy
But those with no labor left to extract are a drain certainly. Capital goes to sustain those no longer contributing. If the effects of PFAS arent generally noticiable before the body begins to naturally deteriorate, there is no loss of labor
drain on whom? some capitalists get to extract rent, some medical expenses, some simply have them as customers. retirees provide large amounts of productive labor in childcare and through volunteering, which don't directly profit anyone but allows the capitalists smoother operations.
there is a specific current amongst like Tech billionaires who whine about 'birth rate crisis' which don't have much interest in elderly people (because their fingers aren't in those pots), but it's difficult to imagine them getting to unilaterally lower life expectancies instead of pushing for targeted culling of unworthy (poor/nonwhite) elderly people
We have entered the Culling phase of capitalism
Whenever you see old ass white men in suits giving a thumbs up you know both of those thumbs were just used to fuck you.
In my mind it screams out "I just fucked you over and now I'm manufacturing the consent that this is good".
Every time a see a white guy, all I see are disgusting bipedal pigs.
Evil always wins.
A better source: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-epa-approves-its-second-forever-chemical-pesticide-in-two-weeks-2025-11-20/
Apparently it's also highly toxic to bees
So now I have to have a garden or buy organic to not knowingly be eating cancer broccoli??
Look for that Hencho en Mexico label 
Presidenta Sheinbaum, my country, the US, yearns for veggies that won’t give us cancer
in amerikkka even the vegetables are unhealthy
I have plastic in my brain; when I die, you can make a credit card, and buy anything you want
You have a credit card so far
what the fuck why
I'm glad We have Fact Post News to rely on. they only report facts, it's in the name!
Yeah, I couldn't think of a more questionable "source".
I'd prefer if we didnt devolve into taking random X posts as fact.
Guardian is also reporting it though. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/11/trump-pfas-forever-chemical-pesticide
The Biden EPA attempted to discredit the author of one study that identified Pfas in pesticides, and the agency appeared to have lied about whether some of the chemicals are in pesticides.
Very cool
what the fuck
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
To make the lettuce repel the salad dressing?
America is healthy again
It's okay Ivermectin will cancel it out!
Thankfully Amerikkkans hate eating their greens, so this shouldn't be too big of an issue.
For a second I was laughing and about to uncork some champagne to the doom that's about to befall judgy vegans and then I realized 'wait, but I like lettuce in my burgers; also I like fries!'
To vegans: Okay home boys, let's posse!
you also like broccoli too, you fucking liar, don't fucking lie to me and tell me you don't, literally everybody loves broccoli
Exactly, it's like eating tiny trees! Who wouldn't love that?
I used to buy into anti broccoli propaganda like i think there's an episode of Rugrats that was anti broccoli? but working as a chef let me tell you people will eat more broccoli than any other vegetable, and that's even if they make it lazily and just steam it with nothing else. Children, teenagers, old people, people be eatin broccoli
i was coerced into eating broccolli once as a child and it was so awful i've never subjected myself to it a second time
I was coerced into eating creamed spinach as a child and while I won't eat plain cold creamed spinach, I love spinach salads and spanakopita and palak paneer.
Try broccoli steamed, with plum vinegar on it.
Pretty sure animals eat pesticide runoff and contamination too. This will just bioaccumulate.
Exactly.
My reaction was, “But, wait… didn’t RFK say… I mean… … …” :: Picard head in hands ::
Eep!-A
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