[…] A new joint report from the two NGOs has found that 37 active substances currently approved for use in pesticides are PFAS. That equates to 12 per cent of all approved synthetic substances. […]

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    1 year ago

    Go for organics instead (obviously only an option if finances allow for it).

    Eating animal products certainly is not the answer. Not least since those animals usually are fed with soy/corn grown in regions where pesticide use is not particularly well-regulated.

    “Forever chemicals” is only mostly true anymore. There are ways to deal with at least some of them, although them being in the environment already makes it a lot harder. If humans would stop emitting, there’d be a chance of slowly getting to a better state again though.