Plastic Makers Have A Big Secret: They’re Experimenting On You

[@JustMePamela]

Monsanto has done nothing for the public good. What a horrible corporation. Lobbying should be outlawed!

[@daversj]

Unfortunately the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people and have speech rights, and money = speech. We’re f*cked.

[@mikemiller659]

Floor wax people

[@moshoeshoemokaloba9613]

Corrupt governments should be outlawed

[@jamessmith-hs7if]

Bernie Sanders was the only politician saying just that, but he was labeled a communist.

[@aminabdullah350]

Monsanto has done nothing for the public good ??. No shit. Thanks for the head's up einstein.

[@eeyoresgirl55]

We don’t need to be attacked by an external enemy we have corporations destroying us from within.

[@07wrxtr1]

Bingo!!! But: “dude bro they’re jus tryin to make money for the shareholders maaaaaaaaaaaaan”

[@Slay_No_More]

Who owns the corporations?

[@07wrxtr1]

@@Slay_No_More blackrock, vanguard, and state street (all employ "guys" who could not get laid in high school and now HAVE to make insane money in order to FINALLY get some...")

[@jtjoemamma]

@@Slay_No_Moreother corporations do genius. the united states is owned, and your livelihood has been sold

[@Slay_No_More]

@@jtjoemamma who owns those corporations?

[@rebeccasebastian8407]

Why r they consistently saying "spills" instead of DUMPING

[@ikvangalen6101]

Soft language…..

[@erNomic]

​@@ikvangalen6101 Grade A American BS.

[@TheMysteryDriver]

Accidental vs purposeful.

[@who2u333]

No legal liability that way.

[@poleschukenshtooken]

​@@Jamey_ETHZurich_TUe_Rulez blaming the consumer is a tactic invented by the plastic industry.

[@Verniece1968]

Just shows how money is more important than human beings. They have never cared about us. Its so sad

[@robertmueller3897]

It is very true even going back to DuPont when he outlawed hemp rope

[@constitutionloversue]

Greed of

[@2bNot]

No mention of "Nature". Humans are mostly as bad as each other and deserve what they allow and sponsor.

[@MoralesCorner]

Capitalism has good and bad aspects. These are the bad ones. Greed takes over and profits are the only important thing for these corporations, for them people are just numbers

[@13vo7]

They will care when it's their own lives on the line. If we're going down, they're coming with us.

[@Tacomuch]

DON’T FORGET! Monsanto now operates under the Bayer name! “Monsanto is no longer called Monsanto. After being acquired by Bayer, the Monsanto brand name was dropped, and the company now operates under the Bayer name.”

[@EEX97623]

Yes, the Nazi collaborator Bayer has a long history of insidious criminal acts

[@SarahBourne-w2b]

We are in trouble,Lord help us.

[@SpeedKing..]

I wonder what specific group of "chosen people" owns and runs these companies. Curious 🤔🤔🤔

[@rootz420]

Bayer also makes the fertilizers they spray on crops

[@Tecolote41]

Bayer killed 100+ jewish women during product testing during WW2-era

[@syd_santon]

My heart is so sad for the Earth, the soil, the water, plants and animals. All living beings being effected by corporations who have no governance.

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

They do. It's up to us individually and collectively to take action. And action has been taken. You may not hear about it. Here's what you can do in general (cipypasta incoming) I want to encourage everyone. Don't feel powerless. I will tell you specifically how. I would screenshot this comment! -Vote and SPEAK TO your LOCAL representatives. Don't just focus on national elections. Focus on voting for and SPEAKING TO your local representatives, which will create a grassroots effect. Much legislation at the national levels started from grassroots efforts locally. And remember that whatever is spoken of in KZbin comments or with family will almost CERTAINLY never enter the ears of your elected representative. -Sign petitions and donate to nonprofits that are fighting on our behalf, like ToxicFreeFuture, EWG, BCPP, CEH, HBBF, and Ecocenter. -Vote with your wallet. Or just don't buy anything at all if you have what you need, so you don't have a stockpile of reusable grocery bags. Buy Zero Waste products. Download apps like Yuka, Think Dirty, DetoxMe, and Clearya. Use desktop version on Amazon, look under "sustainability features," and click "Safer Chemicals." Utilize toxic free product blogs and databases like TheFiltery, EWG, MyChemicalFreeHouse, Greenopedia, PrincessTigerLily, Leafscore, MayoClinic SkinSafe, ChemicalFreeAF. There are improvements in wastewater, and certain bacteria have been found to eat plastic. Studies also suggest you can reduce levels from your body by donating blood and/or blood plasma Collectively and even individually, we are not powerless. Change does happen and has! We just have to use our voices instead of despairing and doing nothing.

[@helenasollei8798]

I am to , i just say to my self , this création is just so beautiful ,,, apparently money is very powerful ,,,sade , ignorance ,,, the bigest issue of Mankind !

[@cliveblacksheep2522]

Yes agree, the love of money is evil 😢all governance is complicit…worldwide….and ultimately they allow the continuing corruption of all things 😢 Peace be with you Praise Jesus

[@Argumemnon]

@Manlylon Well the consumers made them as well.

[@ajamucollins4395]

​@@cliveblacksheep2522YHWH ELOHIM 12 TRIBES WORLDWIDE, "J" never existed at the time and was originally "Y" instead of "J", as it is a new letter

[@bardoflyhm]

Glass is infinitely recyclable, why do we need this crap

[@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr]

we don't, but it helps rich people make more money

[@sophfro]

It is also heavier and can be more fragile. But I agree. I go out of my way to make sure I am not using plastic water bottles because in a place where tap water is generally potable there isn't much of a reason for the average person to use them.

[@GenerationX1984]

It's cheaper to make.

[@custos3249]

Because glass is dense and fragile. How was that not obvious?

[@LudwigVaanArthans]

​@@custos3249nope Corpos make more money with plastic than they make with glass, there, eat your heart out If something is more fragile, if it makes more money for corpos, they will use that You, as the "consumer", don't matter. You can't choose anything else if the corpos get the entire market under their control

[@roben9580]

The way stores put the bottled water stacked outside in the direct sun, or on any direct sun is a major factor as well

[@MSTRXLaboratory]

Delete population not pollution

[@MRD6460]

yes I AGREE I have pics of our local grocery of all places that had crates of water outside for week after week and it angered me soooo much I took pics and contacted customer services and NOTHING changed.... PEOPLE WE NEED HELP to exclude PLASTICS

[@roben9580]

@MRD6460 lead the way....!!

[@lolalalia4119]

Ehlers danlos syndrome is killing me. I'm born and raised Pasadena, Houston TX. My mother worked for chemical plants while pregnant with me and for the next 35 years. I was born while she was at work INSIDE a petrochemical plant. My entire family is healthy except me cuz they are all from NYC. I am the only one born on the gulf coast and the poster child for what the plastics, PFAs, and chemical plants do to healthy genetics. The town I grew up in is entirely surrounded by chemical plants and the Houston ship channel. We can't swim in the water. The air always smells like like a chemical but always a different chemical. The pipelines and plants run throughout the entire town. We did tornado, fire, and chemical plant EXPLOSION drills starting in elementary cuz there are plants within walking distance of every single public school and daycare. Instead of petrichore before it rains at night we smell rotten eggs cuz that's when they do burn offs with the logic that less people will be outside and the rain will "wash it away".... and right into our soil and water. I have an estimated 10 yrs left to live and I'm not alone. Myself and my childhood friends are all sick or infertile. The women raised here in the 50s and 60s all developed cancer. We're dying down here.

[@cpeace3172]

I grew up near Dow Chemical Company and I have a similar story.

[@qwissy]

Heartbreaking. I'm sorry this country failed you and your community :(

[@chpsilva]

Sorry to hear about your condition. I sincerely wish the best for you.

[@Nabonidus-m7x]

This sounds like a 5th world country what you're describing..... 😢

[@anntrope491]

You all need to get together… hire a big law firm which specializes in damages,& enact a class action lawsuit !! Corporations have no conscience…& only by taking their profits will they change their ways !! At least get restitution… for yourself,& other people who have damages from this industry !! God bless you,& your family,& friends …💕🙏🏼🌻💕

[@bigchief4044]

Monsanto is quite possibly the most evil company on the planet.

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

no that is blackrock

[@RichardHarlos]

I get your point, but just to add a bit to it: companies don't do anything; people do things. A company is just words on paper. It's people who make decisions and carry out those decisions. So, technically, your comment could be slightly restated as *"people who work for Monsanto* are quite possibly the most evil people on the planet" and it would be even closer to the truth. Sobering, right?

[@coop5329]

Monsanto no longer exists. Their assets were bought by the German chemical company Bayer. So that's who you should be looking at now. They don't give a d**m about what our politicians allow them to do in America. That they wouldn't be allowed to do in their own country. The problem is in our politicians, who are bought and paid for by the corporate billionaires.

[@RuviaPawz]

I agree

[@_Diana_S]

To create seeds, that can only grow once and will never create another vital, fertile seed out of them, i.e. to create infertile plants. This is such a monstrous idea.

[@BladeoftheImmortal2005]

Ah, Monsanto. We meet again when there's horrible news.

[@vickijohnson9367]

A government sponsored evil.

[@MMorMM]

A Monsanto salesman came to Seattle, about 50 years ago, wanting to "date" my girlfriend's sister. She was hooked up with a biker and didn't want to see him. Somehow, my girlfriend had sex with him (probably oral sex, knowing her). Anyway, we both mysteriously came down with the clap, an STD. I figured out what happened, no doubt, and that asshole probably infected a hundred more oblivious people. Let's hear it for Monsanto!!! Assholes. M

[@handlemonium]

Nurdles all the way down.

[@LaughingblueSu]

Monsanto gave to both parties. But they gave double to💩 trump💩

[@tirkentube]

i'm shocked we haven't heard from our buddy DuPont yet.

[@dchristensen777]

I often comment on this channel even if I have nothing to say. This way I'll support this channel

[@Davido50]

Truth. 🙏🏻 🙏🏻

[@minhhoangvo4759]

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[@Introverted_goblin_]

It's so funny when companies complain about a lack of births and a lack of consumers. They know what's causing the problems. They don't care. The dissonance between what these companies want and what they are directly causing is ridiculous.

[@zildjiandrummer1]

Because the multi-millionaire and billionaire leaders will fuck off to their bunkers in New Zealand and other places when things get bad enough, or they're old enough to die before facing any real consequences. I don't advocate for actual eco-terror but if I read something in the news about them being threatened legally/physically to force them to change, I wouldn't be sad.

[@DeaDiabola]

Nah but they're solving it by taking away women's rights to turn them into brood mares /s

[@RichardHarlos]

True. And the government that's supposed to regulate them as an act of representing the people... largely doesn't. And the people themselves have been charged since the beginning of the US to hold gov't accountable... and they don't. So in truth, we all bear some measure of responsibility to do what we can. If people have surrendered their power, then when gov't and corporations bed together, it's kind of silly to point at them and play victim (not saying you're doing this, rather, that this seems to be a common thread in many comments here). In truth, 'we' are a significant part of the problem, but we don't do anything but continue to consume plastics. And since consumer demand drives much of the decisions that manufacturers make about what's profitable, they (the mfrs) are doing what we (the consumers) want. Quite the irony there, right?

[@ajmosutra7667]

Maybe they WANT this and CAUSE it...? Ever think of that

[@ajmosutra7667]

Its like its made by design like this

[@Fancysymbol]

oh, Monsanto made the first plastic water bottle, that makes a lot of sense actually. The harbinger of the end times

[@ajmosutra7667]

Ironic they have a santo in their name

[@125discipline2]

saint monster

[@dominicfucinari1942]

I keep calling them "the 3rd Gate Cartel", based on the translation "Mon" gate, "san" 3, and "to" illicit ring or syndicate.

[@TheGlitterMan]

Nice.​@@dominicfucinari1942

[@gblikestosew]

​@@dominicfucinari1942 I definitely think it's more fitting to call them a cartel than a company.

[@alcott122]

Whatever FDA says I try to avoid it. I found myself in this rabbit hole of so many industry lies when I read "The 23 Former Doctor Truths". Its no wonder why Doctor left her career.

[@Yatukih_001]

It's called going by instinct. The new life will consist of 5 hours of work each day with 3 days a week. The rest is no stress as you manage your life and no longer your employer. And in the future you receive constant upgrades. Your aim will eventually be for a life of high salaries and enough work which means no slavery.

[@LostMane]

@@Yatukih_001 ? Communist Utopia?

[@Yatukih_001]

@@LostMane Hi Lost Mania. I think that socialism has totally collapsed and does not currently seem to have a chance of returning until at least 2124. Therefore we are stuck with capitalism, which is a good thing.

[@harvyt257]

​@Yatukih_001 yeah it's so much better to give insane wealth and power to like 20 guys while the rest of us scrounge.

[@lucakat9262]

You know the FDA has been paid off for years and by many big money making businesses.

[@KyleEvra-15]

It makes me angry that innocent plants and innocent animals are suffering along with this. Dragging them to Hell with us.

[@rg975]

It’s interesting how nearly everything that is detrimental life on earth is linked to Monsanto

[@taniayager3361]

Isn't BGates heavily in invested in this company?

[@peteallyn412]

That’s the cost of being on the “cutting edge” and they don’t call it that for nothing if you catch my drift.

[@HeIterSkelter]

​@@ThisTimeTheWorldeverysinglestein and timeowitz

[@emadmoghrabi5306]

@@ThisTimeTheWorld Jewish texts view all other races/ethnicity's as inferior so they have no issue seeing people as dollar bills and hurting them for a profit. Not all Jews see it this way. Just the ultra zionists

[@sd247]

​@@ThisTimeTheWorldThat's right.

[@phredrolltek]

my wife just died from aggressive pancreatic cancer..came on in months. her family has a history of long lived individuals. we are the Teflon generation, one big experiment.

[@GardenGuy1942]

Teflon is great and shown to have no effect, what are you talking about

[@kv4648]

My great grandpa lived till 93, so did his dad. That was all before the toxic stuff though. My relatives now have visible health effects from living in cities that have industrial sites

[@fluoriteByte]

​@@GardenGuy1942 dupont were literally sued because of them dumping tefflon side-products into multiple rivers

[@VH-ew7oq]

⁠​⁠@@GardenGuy1942PFAS, PFOA and PTFE (teflon) have been linked to a half dozen dysfunctions and cancers. What are YOU talking about. When its heated it breaks down and microscopic flakes detach themselves from the coating.

[@builtbyburnzy]

@@GardenGuy1942 moron

[@d.virgallito3490]

GREED, always greed!

[@Jkaravokiros]

What really annoys me is that the consumer always pays the price. All costs are always translated down and reflected at the consumer level. So if we want glass instead of plastics then give it to us! Give us healthier products, we are forced to pay the retail price anyway at least make it healthy... but they don't so there must be other reasons why they don't care and continue to poison us and destroy the environment! It always boils down to greed (money/power).

[@carolynstalker7913]

Incompetence is a big one too.

[@007heaven]

And buried billions tonnes in soil everywhere at landfill disgrace

[@lisacole3533]

Hemp can do everything plastic does. But safer and biodegradable.

[@solomongrundy1467]

If it cost more to manufacture, it'll never happen. Greed drives every decision they make.

[@lisacole3533]

@solomongrundy1467 it is cheaper to manufacture. Up until late 1800's, Hemp was the number one industrial crop in America. The original Levi is Hemp material. 😉

[@MogoMojo-50]

Jute and banana stems too !

[@charlottesmom]

@@MogoMojo-50 How about bamboo? I have to do research…

[@JaneDoe-ng3zm]

​@@lisacole3533it was 100% cotton Levi's jeans

[@intrepid1160]

FDA: Do you have proof that that bottle is safe? Monsanto: Trust me bro

[@zavahar]

FDA:- Good to go 👍🏼

[@tvrift]

Like the J&J talc..

[@PioneerOcean十]

More like: FDA: We've found that this plastic bottle's unsafe... unless... Monsanto: Here's something under the table... FDA: We've found plastic bottles to be safe for public consumption.

[@williamyoung9401]

That woman gave her 5-year-old coke? No wonder we're all messed up. We never had any hope. Does anyone alive remember life without Plastic? Nope...

[@Unlucky-Dube]

@@PioneerOcean十 Its far more sinister than you think, it is all a revolving door, the same industrial complexes which benefit from making you sick very cheaply, are the same that make a lot off you being sick, permanently, and yet still, the same that supposedly regulate you being so.

[@Rene-uz3eb]

Yep. Plastic needs to be designated as hazardous waste just like oil which it is made of. And they should be made responsible for cleaning up their nurdles.

[@yzorgone]

online shame the guys that lobby against marking nurdels as dangerous

[@conifergreen2]

Its not just made from oil.

[@bonkgameing]

@@conifergreen2you gonna list what else it’s made out of or…

[@brandonfoley7519]

They should pay to clean up there mess

[@nanajp]

@@yzorgone true. Instead of online shaming individuals on Twitter, we should all unite to shame the plastic industry.

[@oldblack15]

Love the dedication of this woman. May her and her ilk continue the good fight.

[@isaacmijangos]

“When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, [We] Will Realize That [We] Cannot Eat Money“

[@timothysatyr6674]

pffff, throw some ranch and some bacon flavored microplastic on it. im sure its high in fiber

[@goingagainstthegrain]

Well said!

[@letsRegulateSociopaths]

you can't eat those fish now, they are full of forever chemicals... so ....

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Reflection is key. Unfortunately, mankind is absolutely bollocks at it. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@samtung83]

But you will still eat plastics.

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

This should be treated as a chemical spill. These factories need to be held accountable for this devastation

[@HansTyndale]

Yes, like when there was a train derailment on its way to a plastic making plant in PA and they did a controlled burn off in East Palestine Ohio of vinyl chloride creating a huge disaster.

[@Fishy-i2g]

It is up to the citizens to hold them and the Government accountable. Your opinion has no value in real life if you are not doing anything about it. Read the Constitution of America, understand your obligations as a citizen do what is expected of you otherwise you have little place to complain.

[@Brett_S_420]

There was an animal feed worker on tic-tok who was fired for filming what was happening at his plant. Stores and food corporations were getting credit for lowering their food waste while in reality the food was just getting ground up, plastic packaging and all, and getting formed into chicken, hog, and cattle feed pellets. No freaking wonder we all have it in us.

[@nayemalaboni8318]

Food waste turn into animal feed is good recycling and reducing waste I think

[@Olivia-W]

That's good, except the packaging. Without the packaging, old food going into animal feed is a good way of using what would otherwise be trash.

[@lokismischief2512]

​@Ralph-hw5ri got to love bio magnification.

[@sleepwalking117]

​@@nayemalaboni8318 You missed the part where they mix the food waste with packaging.

[@Zyo117]

American food isn't even fit for consumption by people, let alone rotting food waste being fed to animals. Mad cow disease started by feeding ground animal wastage after butchering back to more animals. What will this end up being?

[@JoshuaBowers-b5q]

Can we stop and appreciate how hilarious the word nurdle is

[@Shawn-zt3gv]

This environmental activist lady is amazing. Great job

[@Shawn-zt3gv]

@robynliteracy7057 thank you

[@SateavaDiva]

When she tried to make a citizens arrest I knew she was the real deal. We need more people like her in this world.

[@Shawn-zt3gv]

@@SateavaDiva you're darn right

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

You know for a "regulatory" agency, the EPA is a joke. Might as well not even exist as long as these companies can buy them.

[@chey7691]

It was made originally in SPITE of the organizations that made it necessary. It is a decent concept and works, but only when people are active in the stakes of their own well being. Because for evil to triumph, it requires the good to do nothing.

[@coop5329]

If the Republicans win this election, one of their plans is completely eliminate the EPA and what little of it's pesky enforcement actually happens; such an inconvenience to our businessmen tsk, tsk. Along with FEMA, the National Weather Service, the Department of Education, etc. etc. etc.

[@Fthesystem69]

You can say the same for the FDA too, or the AMA, hell you might as well write off all the regulatory agencies at this point. It's safe to assume they've all been captured by corporations and their "donations"

[@glasszeraki9195]

Everyone wants money. Everyone wants to save themselves from drowning in incompetence and callous disregard of the world.

[@Pallasathena-hv4kp]

And some want to completely dismantle ALL protective agencies. As good as the wild Wild West!

[@dirtymonkeymgb5247]

Keanu Reeves! Said it perfectly! “ we treat the earth the way we treat each other”

[@MariaWeeks-q1z]

What I'm trying to figure out . How they get away with doing such damage to our planet .

[@Roger-go6jc]

It is actually very easy to figure. 50 years ago Big Oil Corporations knew about Climate Change. They commenced multi billion dollar PR campaigns that included subsidising learning institutions, controlling TV programming and later online streaming, and they sit in the halls of power and guide decisions and directions. They have also established litigation supremacy with unlimited legal influence and money to crush any influence that would threaten their power, influence and wealth ( look up the case of Steven Donziger). The impact of all this time, money and influence? We have a Climate Change Crisis that could have been acted on 50years ago. Also, knowing Fossil Fuels were eventually going to decrease in demand, they channeled production of this into Plastics. Also knowing the imminent dangers of the same to the World, they then used that same massive PR Control Machine to “manage” the growing unrest over the product. In this way they maintain and maximise further production while suppressing the growing resistance to the product. So next time you see yet another Climate Change Cascade event, or yet another global plastics disaster, contemplate the destructive power of the likes of Chevron, Exxon- Mobil or any of the Big Oil Corporations that have knowingly brought this to our front door.

[@dsiepiela6449]

I use the same glass canning jar and glass dishes my grandmother used. I remember when we saved glass bottles and sent them back to the soda factory to be refilled. It worked.

[@clayshiawillis4725]

Amen!

[@selah71]

As kids we'd hunt for discarded soda bottles and take them to the store for recycling. We got 2¢ a bottle. All plastic bottles should be legally replaced by glass and recycled. And that's just a start!

[@luceinbattaglia9425]

We need to stand up together and boycott plastic! Once and for all!

[@starshine3588]

Do you know who got everything to switch to plastic in the first place? Environmentalists who used to protest and scream “making glass is harming our planet…save the planet…switch to plastic” and “save the trees…save the planet…switch to plastic bags instead of paper”. I used to watch them on the news when I was younger. When I was younger….all of our sodas came in glass bottles…even the bigger bottles were glass….and we could return the bottles to the store for recycling and get a few cents back for every bottle we brought back. We used to have paper grocery bags too and mostly cardboard type packaging on products. Soap didn’t come in plastic bottles either…it was bar soap wrapped in paper. There were some plastic bottles for shampoo and some products….but there wasn’t a lot of plastic. Then those environmentalists started their protests and demanding we switch to plastic because it was better for the environment. They claimed making glass was harming the planet because you have to use a lot of sand to make glass. So environmentalists always cause more problems with their demands….just as you are seeing now….which is why none of them should ever be listened to.

[@lilajagears8317]

​@starshWell stated, and so very true.ine3588

[@MushookieMan]

@@starshine3588 Ok enjoy your plastic

[@bonniedrouillard3963]

Plastic Can be recycled and reused. It is expensive but now, we have the resources. We need to make fences and patio decks, not in the kitchen.

[@scottashe984]

​@@MushookieManGlass is much heavier than plastic. It costs more to transport and uses more oil to transport. Plastic makes so many things it would be like banning metal.

[@Phlegethon]

This world uses so much plastic where it doesn’t need to

[@christine9467]

I know it. What bugs me the most is people who constantly buy water in bottles!! Get a filtration system already 😢

[@AL-cn6pp]

Plastic is extremely cheap, easily made, and effective packaging material. The surge in use is due to those facts. It's used by corporations who are very much focused on the bottom line. It is cheaper to make products in plastic than many other materials. Money drives business. The more we allow ourselves to buy these products, the more the incentive to change diminishes.

[@mswetra2610]

I used to spend summers in Bermuda. The island is pristine and they actually clean the beaches. Well about 7 years ago I was sitting on a beautiful pink sand beach. I picked up a handful of sand. In that handful of sand there were hundreds of grains of plastic. So all the sea creatures and the sand have been full of plastic for years. So yeah we effed up the world and ourselves. Go count nerdles in Bremuda it's heartbreaking.

[@JoJoDramo-ih7qk]

The most powerful nation in the world and can't put a tiny leash on corporations. What is the point?

[@dominicfucinari1942]

Formerly United Corporations of Kochistan

[@CTomCooper]

The deeper the dive you go, you’ll find that there’s a strong argument that the most powerful nation in the world never really abandoned and left its predecessor’s controlling hand. European oligarchs through the approval of corporate appointees and war hawks wanted to prop up the US as an industrial powerhouse. Essentially, the US in its industry turned into a militaristic force and fought Europe’s wars at the desire of the oligarchs there. As things are today, the wish of those oligarchs is to see the decay and disassembling of US industry, with negative externalities of subsidized mega corporations being intended, so they can prop themselves up as the dominant global political force. Tom Luongo is a financial analyst who holds to that theory anyway.

[@marswind285]

They own the government. Democracy is a facade.

[@ChristopherAnderson-e5o]

USA isnt really the "most powerful" nation, thats just propaganda. have you noticed that the combined forces of NATO cant even take ukraine?

[@ms.construed1305]

We are ruled by Satan.

[@stevenescobar5988]

Man this reminds me of what VICE used to be 😄

[@ivanlaplante]

Hamilton's Pharmacopeia: microplastics

[@BillAnt]

​@@ivanlaplante - Making psychoactive drugs from plastics.... it's actually possible though not cost effective. heh

[@JordanLyon-w8e]

Before it got BOUGHT OUT.

[@light_and_sound]

They are bringing back the print mag!

[@Enishidono]

This is f**king sickening

[@sallyclay1974]

Corporate greed will take us down

[@piku5637]

Bring back glass bottles and containers.

[@nikkijubilant]

Ok, but glass is a real pain to recycle, too. The wrong type of glass, the shards gums up the machines

[@nikkijubilant]

Prefer vastly that folks use cans for beer, less injuries and flat tires

[@Rastaferrari829]

@@nikkijubilantwell, if it were regulated to specific types of glass to lessen that problem, it could work.

[@danieltaylor4185]

@@nikkijubilant I hate to break this to you, but aluminum drink cans are lined with plastic.

[@mikemiller659]

use and re use aluminum

[@jamiefagan9129]

And politicians don't even talk about these kind of problems

[@sharonkarusiotis2926]

RFK is talking.

[@jtjoemamma]

@@sharonkarusiotis2926because its his only way to get anyone to listen to him. that dude is a documented sociopath

[@terrao4971]

@@sharonkarusiotis2926right, he’s very involved with this, pharmaceuticals, food, etc.

[@Iambabycake]

Right!? Both trump and Kamala are trash.

[@Iambabycake]

@@sharonkarusiotis2926 He’s who I’m voting for. He actually seems to care about us and our country.

[@vinrock3918]

Too much money not only ruins people... It ruins the world.

[@donHooligan]

yep. Humanity never needed money to live. Humanity needed money to destroy all life.

[@LyricsQuest]

I think energy is more accurate. Lots of energy can do a lot of ruin in the wrong hands.

[@nyanuwu4209]

@@donHooligan "Humanity never needed money to live." Well, that's not true at all...

[@nyanuwu4209]

*Too much money concentrated in too few hands by capitalism

[@donHooligan]

@@nyanuwu4209 what a weak species, you believe us to be. life truly existed before the division of labor. perhaps you do not comprehend what i said, since you just clipped out the part that triggered your ego.

[@markrudolph683]

50 million dollars!! She should have hired professional lobbyists at state and federal levels.

[@allthepugs]

I grew up in Australia in the 80s, our beaches were covered in these nurdles, I used to love collecting them as an only child and no one to play on the beach with while my mom sunbathed for hours… I could never figure out what they were or why there was so many of them. But this was the early to mid 80s and there were millions of them, I’d collect them all day. If that was the amount on beaches in the 1980s, I cannot imagine where we’re at now. Insanity

[@SophiaAphrodite]

Fun fact: Donald Rumsfeld worked for the company Searle that made aspartame. It was denied approval until he was put on the board of the FDA.

[@UnitedCorporationsOfAmerica]

Rumsfeld. Dude probably caught more bodies than Adolf H.

[@Exisist5151]

It’s crazy how so much that is wrong with the current state of the country can be traced back to the 1980 election.

[@kartheeshk5519]

That's not a fun fact It's a horrible fact

[@vickijohnson9367]

Government sponsored evil.

[@Kazther]

@@kartheeshk5519 Although, the studies about Aspatame being a carzinogen were biased and the animals in the studies were given several hundert times any resonable dose to make sure they develope sideffects. The EU is certainly more strict in banning potentially harmful ingrediens and still considers aspatame safe - so far all we can say is - wether it is a sugar substitue or sugar itself - quantity is the main issue. If you mainly drink sugary drinks or eat a lot of sweets or stuff with sugar in it - just subsituting these for sugar-free alternatives is shifting the issues you will see long-term. As such - we really need to reeducate ourself (and the goverments most definetly need to do their part in this - because as long as companies are allowed to adverties so much so agressivle and often so deciveingly - getting back to a healthier diet is needlessly difficult)

[@fionnagrant6636]

We use plastic for everything. We dress ourselves in plastic. We then wash those plastic fibers in machines, and pump all the water (full of tiny fibers) through our sewage treatment plants and out into the ocean. So much plastic everywhere in our lives and we redistribute it into our environment.

[@fionnagrant6636]

Why so much plastic? Because it is light to transport our food and consumer goods, and it is cheaply produced and makes money for petrochemical companies. Petroleum companies skim profit from every single part of our lives.

[@mrdeanvincent]

I wish more people would try their best to stop buying plastic clothing. Polyester, nylon, acrylic, rayon, spandex, etc. We have amazing natural fibres from wool and cotton and flax to bamboo and hemp.

[@goingagainstthegrain]

Buy vintage clothing that was made from real cotton. I'm sure there's a documentary on that as well.

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

Here's my copypasta. I want to encourage everyone. Don't feel powerless. I will tell you specifically how. I would screenshot this comment! -Vote and SPEAK TO your LOCAL representatives. Don't just focus on national elections. Focus on voting for and SPEAKING TO your local representatives, which will create a grassroots effect. Much legislation at the national levels started from grassroots efforts locally. And remember that whatever is spoken of in KZbin comments or with family will almost CERTAINLY never enter the ears of your elected representative. -Sign petitions and donate to nonprofits that are fighting on our behalf, like ToxicFreeFuture, EWG, BCPP, CEH, HBBF, and Ecocenter. -Vote with your wallet. Or just don't buy anything at all if you have what you need, so you don't have a stockpile of reusable grocery bags. Buy Zero Waste products. Download apps like Yuka, Think Dirty, DetoxMe, and Clearya. Use desktop version on Amazon, look under "sustainability features," and click "Safer Chemicals." Utilize toxic free product blogs and databases like TheFiltery, EWG, MyChemicalFreeHouse, Greenopedia, PrincessTigerLily, Leafscore, MayoClinic SkinSafe, ChemicalFreeAF. Collectively and even individually, we are not powerless. Change does happen and has! We just have to use our voices instead of despairing and doing nothing.

[@fionnagrant6636]

@@mrdeanvincent I am on a very low income with two kids, and I'm afraid it is really difficult to afford natural fibers all the time. I am thinking of saving up for a filter for my washing machine.

[@SugarMameTalks]

Diane is who we all need to be ,against all these greedy corporations ruining the world

[@DazDaz105]

I used to work for a company that used plastic pellets in their manufacturing processes. Millions of these pellets got into the drains daily.

[@EDMEMC]

Me as well. I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I have been with the company for 10 years prior to when I was diagnosed. Literally 10 women have had cancer there.

[@andrewdestefano4143]

I tried discussing this with my 70 year old mother recently, and her response was "well at least there isn't broken glass and crockery everywhere anymore." I didn't even know how to respond. I just explained how we are slowly going extinct, and she couldn't even process it.

[@KatarinaNolte]

Boomers 🙄

[@Bloo2314]

It's just so... frustrating. These aren't "bad" people but- I dunno, it feels the same with my mum

[@36inc]

@@Bloo2314 dont lie to yourself- you cant be good if you never knew how. this lack of alarm may not be a conscious decision but it naturally excludes her decisions from ever being right. this is why teachers ask you to show you the work- cause understanding and trivia are not the same and getting the right answer the wrong way will set in bad habits. stupidity is a cousin of evil- and often the more dangerous side of it.thats why we get exponentially more mad with a mansluaghter Drunk driver than an impassioned murder. making sense emotionally goes along way with empathy- even if the logic isnt really sound. and the same vice versa- empathy just not a great tool its limited by distance- crossed and misunderstood communications and loyalty. its wrapped up all pretty but its not that virtuous its neutral. hell ive known people with legit 0 empathy yet they were the most helpful person around (turns out even antisocial people can sus out how dumb or self destructive violence may be). to them it was all logical but ironically that made their loyalty to good acts alot more solid, not the imagined robotic or antisocial traits we arbitrarily assume will be (turns out even antisocial people can sus out how dumb or self destructive violence may be). i think humans are just not capable of society. by pursuing big identities weve only ruined the world on the way. happy enough with masterbatory comforts.

[@CamilleBluestein]

I am 81 years old. No all of us old people are that stupid.

[@36inc]

@CamilleBluestein everyone without exception is dumb. Were animals limited by our form. To do good we have to learn the language of reality which we just barely scratched the surface of and will prolly never get past some issues. Everyones dumb just we chose to get smarter about a few things. The sifference between anybody is what those thigns are.

[@PaganTonya]

DOW Chemical has destroyed my beautiful state of Maine. We are in the forefront on a PFAS litigation from contamination of our soil. Which of course gets into our waterways. What is happening in our country with pollutants is a shame. We need leaders who will stand up for us and not big business. In the mean time people like me in a contaminated area have to deal with the real life repercussions of this mess

[@t.k3025]

Tell Susan Collins I bet she loves big companies.

[@surfershaper]

And Parkersburg, WV. And Cape Fear river, NC. And anywhere else they operate. Notice they set up here in the US, but not in their home country of France

[@wematanye533]

@@t.k3025 F Susan Collins, so tired of these spineless "lesser of two evils" corporate lapdogs

[@tomstevens8243]

You have to pay them. Its the only way any more. They (Big business) control everything. "We will own nothing and be happy? Remember that ridiculous statement about 10 years ago from WHO?. It's here, it's real, but I'm not happy.

[@hangedone]

honestly, i kind of think plastic should be illegal at this point in the environmental emergency… maybe except for absolutely necessary things, like the medical field?

[@Tanzerdragoon]

A while back, one of Formosa's plants actually released pollutant chemicals into the sea, basically where it was stationed in Taiwan. It didn't make big news, but the chemicals were released into the ocean, and many of the beaches had dead fish wash up onto Vietnam's shores. There is a video of this on KZbin, where I watched it originally. It will not be in english. My mom paid attention to it mainly because she had family in Vietnam still. She called them up and told them not to eat the dead fish washing up shore, as it was probably really dangerous. I'm sure there were some people who still ate and sold the fish sadly. Formosa denies these allegations, and small countries really can't do anything about it.

[@shadowmistress999]

spreading the news helps, maybe try getting an investigative journalist on it?

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

Yeah i looked it up. Maybe try Taiwan Environmental Information Association (TEIA)?

[@olivergilpin]

Report to Taiwan

[@shadowmistress999]

same thing happened in 2016-2017

[@InspiringMyPeople]

This is why I’m a marine biology major. Even if I’m just cleaning beaches everyday, I can pass on content with that

[@zainabzolita8436]

I'd watch videos of beach cleanings

[@Pallasathena-hv4kp]

❤

[@leoserrano6032]

Those that argue for less regulation literally only have profits insight.

[@timothysatyr6674]

and they are brainwashed by faux news

[@Bubble-Foam]

The worst part is that so many of these people arguing about cost are just like us. They don’t actually stand to directly benefit from increased profit margins for some plastic factory or transport company.

[@robertstevensonjr]

Maybe we should stop using plastic all together. What choice do we have?

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

Now this woman is what I would call a patriot.

[@RichardHarlos]

She isn't doing it for her country so, no, she isn't a patriot. What she is is a decent human being who cares about people other than her own little circle of family and friends. What she's doing, most of us could do. So then, why don't we?

[@dominicfucinari1942]

@@RichardHarlos Too many United Staters working multiple jobs just to keep repo agencies appeased.

[@jeanmember]

@@RichardHarlosshe’s championing for a cause that effects the whole country, including the people inside it. What do you have against the word patriot? It doesn’t inherently have a negative connotation even if idiots like to use it.

[@christinewarren9660]

​@RichardHarlos She isn't doing it for her country? Our freedoms are compromised without whistle-blowers.

[@RichardHarlos]

@@christinewarren9660 wrote, _"She isn't doing it for her country?"_ No, she isn't. Why does that not seem clear to you? christine: _"Our freedoms are compromised without whistle-blowers."_ Nothing in my comment speaks to the topic of whistle-blowers and freedom. Perhaps you've read something into what I wrote?

[@DM0317]

My best friend accuses me of not trusting the pharmaceutical industry or anything for that matter. This documentary assures my mistrust. Thank you

[@nanashipersonne4151]

No, it means you should distrust those companies mentioned, not every company. That is then an overgeneralistion and then I would agree with your friend. The world is bigger than the US and there are more companies than the few mentioned here. If you then distrust all the doctors for example you‘ll make life harder for you. Doesn‘t mean you should trust every doctor. It‘s not yes or no to a whole population. More nuance would help you.

[@DM0317]

@@nanashipersonne4151 the doctors become doctors learning from text books designed by pharmaceutical companies. Is not that the doctor are purposely causing harm . I have lately relied more on herbal remedies

[@resin2092]

​@@nanashipersonne4151None of these companies exist for our benefit... Plastic shouldnt be used this widely

[@EUROPA-THE-LAST-BATTL]

Tell him about a named one a Rock and he is a Fella And watch STOLENN HISSTORYY.

[@bratniii]

I also fully support your mistrust. 😅 But every overly informed citizen needs a more care free best friend. 😂 So I support both of you 🍻

[@lioleigh9791]

If Hell was real, there would be a whole ass circle of it dedicated to plastic manufacturers and their lobbyists.

[@itsrachelfish]

Hell is real, it's the planet we're living on if we keep letting people prioritize profit over sustainability

[@benjaminloyd6056]

Well, it is real. And those who sell their morality and kill their conscience for money, will find a place there should they be unrepentant.

[@itsrachelfish]

@@benjaminloyd6056 Heaven and Hell aren't places you go when you die, they are the end result of Earth given generations of our accumulated behavior.

[@EUROPA-THE-LAST-BATTL]

All oil based even medications are ☠️Watch STOLEN HISTORY.

[@HeIterSkelter]

​@@itsrachelfishThis isn't hell but it is the devils playground, this is more arguably limbo where you are in between.

[@lafter8655]

I will always be a native in my own land, standing on the edge of the last river, completely destroyed by trash, with a tear in my eye, and a broken heart. and the sigh of told you so.

[@MSTRXLaboratory]

Delete population not pollution

[@allps3review]

The government needs to be held responsible for this .

[@treystephens6166]

Never, unfortunately.

[@angelsotired]

monsanto at the scene of the crime again ..

[@expresidentfortune]

they don't exist any more, they were bought by Bayer back in 2018

[@eniggma9353]

surpise suprise..

[@michaelcoletta4547]

​@@expresidentfortune rebranding. That's all

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

Bayer keeps getting sued though. Share have gone down a lot last i saw in the news

[@That_One_Guy...]

@@expresidentfortune so they still exist

[@RichardGrim]

We need actual practice of laws against crimes against humanity on large scales

[@Friendlyanarchistbear]

Great Idea. I think Im going to research the process of getting that drafted with signatures

[@MartinIsRunning]

Diane Wilson is an American badass. And I use the term American to mock the right wingers and reclaim it. She is standing for the PEOPLE. Good for her.

[@FuqAuf]

🤡

[@hopefulpellinore5490]

Endocrine disruption for sure. I was aware of this potentiality and I've been on a crusade against plastic for many years for my own reasons. So many young people are having health issues that seem out of proportion.

[@LastDreamWasMe]

Our corporate overlords have been making a killing selling us their trash. From plastic to canola oil

[@mikeb5372]

They've been holding a gun to you and forcing you to buy their stuff?

[@internretcreature]

@@mikeb5372 they might as well.

[@thesurant7271]

@@mikeb5372it’s been marketed for years to be “safe” or “healthy” it has literally been forced into our lives.

[@dominicfucinari1942]

@@mikeb5372 How do you avoid it? What should people buy instead, or what should they do overall instead?

[@MyBeautifulHealth]

Fluoride…

[@thelonewrangler1008]

Our government will never change until we stop the lobbying shenanigans

[@vickijohnson9367]

They don’t care if they kill everything, it’s all about the fake currency used to control the world. The evil is perfectly described in the Bible.

[@RichardHarlos]

Our gov't will never change period. But, if consumers stop BUYING plastics, there's no profit to be had in manufacturing them so... imagine if all of us made the decision tonight to do just that: *no more plastics.* What a lovely world that would be.

[@nsiebenmor]

@@RichardHarlosyep! Everyone likes to blame the companies but won't do anything to change their convenient lives and what they buy.

[@timothysatyr6674]

@@nsiebenmor it would require a collective effort, and would be difficult at first but i think it can be done

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

It can. Here's my copypasta. I want to encourage everyone. Don't feel powerless. I will tell you specifically how. I would screenshot this comment! -Vote and SPEAK TO your LOCAL representatives. Don't just focus on national elections. Focus on voting for and SPEAKING TO your local representatives, which will create a grassroots effect. Much legislation at the national levels started from grassroots efforts locally. And remember that whatever is spoken of in KZbin comments or with family will almost CERTAINLY never enter the ears of your elected representative. -Sign petitions and donate to nonprofits that are fighting on our behalf, like ToxicFreeFuture, EWG, BCPP, CEH, HBBF, and Ecocenter. -Vote with your wallet. Or just don't buy anything at all if you have what you need, so you don't have a stockpile of reusable grocery bags. Buy Zero Waste products. Download apps like Yuka, Think Dirty, DetoxMe, and Clearya. Use desktop version on Amazon, look under "sustainability features," and click "Safer Chemicals." Utilize toxic free product blogs and databases like TheFiltery, EWG, MyChemicalFreeHouse, Greenopedia, PrincessTigerLily, Leafscore, MayoClinic SkinSafe, ChemicalFreeAF. Collectively and even individually, we are not powerless. Change does happen and has! We just have to use our voices instead of despairing and doing nothing.

[@MaddesG1]

People need to protest at these places

[@edi9892]

And they gaslight you into believing that it's the consumers' fault for littering... Instead, it's their logistics. States exporting waste rather than dealing with it themselves. And overlooked things such as peeling off paint and degrading car tires...

[@oatmeal710]

du pont lobbied to criminalize cannabis because of its ability to create completely biodegradable plastics

[@berja3895]

Holy shit. No wonder it's still classified as a type 1A. Money, greed go hand in hand. Get rid of the plastic. Go back to glass. America used to recycle those bottles. We can do the same now but our first priority is to get this plastic out. Period. That's scary af. What have these corpos done to our planet besides make it toxic and having plastic all through people and animals bodies. Plastic is POISON. Monsanto was bought out by Bayer. Bayer is just as culpable as Monsanto. Anyone remember that famers HAD to buy seeds from Monsanto? They KNEW it was poison but the $$ was just too good to pass up apparently. If a farmer didn't use THEIR seeds, they'd take the farmer to Court for 'contaminating' their plants. Corpos knew it was toxic but lobbied millions of dollars to that politician who would make 'their headaches' go away. It is Corpos who should be held liable for this plastic DISASTER. Never mind lobbying. Use that $$ to clean up your act. ALL of it.

[@FarenHalven]

They just discovered microplastics that crossed the blood-brain barrier and are in brain tissues that should be protected, but our bodies are not designed to handle microplastics. Hence, cancer.

[@brianlove5782]

Our body produces cancer cells everyday. And you people think it's because if the outside 😂

[@marcshields3677]

Nonsense

[@VicToria-zx9kq]

100% make sense

[@SixOhFive]

Please explain to me the connection between cancer and microplastics crossing the BBB

[@kodaxmax]

@@SixOhFive Cancer is a fairly vague term for malicious cell mutation. Cancers don't all work the same way or have the same cause.

[@elainegoad9777]

When I was a kid and young person everything was in glass( milk, soda, baby food, condiments, foods, beauty products, etc...) and we'd return the glass bottles for a refund and reuse.

[@Midori_Hoshi]

I do my part by avoiding plastic where possible, but it sucks that most food is ONLY available in plastic.

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

Try going to local farmers markets! If you have Natural Grocer near you, that may help as well.

[@Midori_Hoshi]

@@ocdplaylistmaker7032 I would love to do those, but it's not an option near me. As soon as I can afford to move somewhere better that lets me do it, I will.

[@Ifeelmylegssubtely]

if your in a city you basically just have to have plastic ingested unless you buy canned food which doesn't involve seed oils like tuna these days they soak it in seed oils. Even cans have a plastic coating for drinks.

[@goldentreefrog18]

When I lived out in the country I was horrified to discover a lot of the fruit and vegetables that are normally delivered to grocery stores in the city in crates and boxes were all individually or in pairs wrapped in plastic. I think the reasoning was volume, they sold way less fresh vegetables because the locals couldn't afford them, and the displays for vegetables were way shallower. This was in a part of Texas where you could grow your own veggies in a garden if you had the time and energy, but only if you owned the land you lived on to be allowed to, and the poor people don't. I constantly hear richer people that own their own house saying to just grow your own veggies, but you can't really in a trailer park. It's not your dirt, no matter how much you pay for it. There isn't enough water/government subsidies for veggies to be locally grown commercially, just cattle/cotton/corn/soy, so they were all shipped from the other end of a large state.

[@daviddeshazo5183]

Man people like that lady are real heroes. I hope we win this fight soon.

[@tomstevens8243]

Hope doesn't get things done. She can't do it alone. She's already ended up as a YT meme. It will take ALL of us, not just one hero. The only thing we have is NUMBERS. We should use them before its too late. No one else is going to do it because no one wants to risk what they have. That's what it will take and until then, good luck treading water with the rest of us.

[@ShdwftheSuN]

This is extremely worrying for our environment and our health!!! We need federal regulations NOW.

[@auntymarushkafah]

Plastic is perfect for an AI world! It's good for robots and other unliving things!

[@RosieOs101]

Bahahaha, like the “government” is going to help. They’re in on it. Don’t you see?!

[@herchelleonwood7463]

@@RosieOs101 yes, the rethuglikkkans will do any thing for the corporations that fund them,, democrats support most health regulations...

[@timothysatyr6674]

we as a society need to collectively boycott so much crap

[@vickijohnson9367]

We have regulations to stop them, unfortunately we have completely corrupted state and federal governments that only work for corporations that line the wealthy business pockets. If you are invested in the Stock Market you are invested in harming our world. Our government works for institutional private finance.

[@kairysisKrantas]

So it is businesses, not us, common people, to blame for polution? Wow, what a surprise.

[@dvdv8197]

“This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor." -Martin Luther King, Jr. Still as true as ever today.

[@spr6577]

This gets posted on every single post from this channel

[@dvdv8197]

@@spr6577 mostly it's VERY applicable, so yes, quite often at least.

[@RockitFX1]

​@@spr6577because it's always relevant.

[@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr]

please stop spamming this on every single video. even though I agree with it, I hate you for saying it. parroting catchy phrases does not prove anything and is not a good argument.

[@EPICSAWIKI]

⁠@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr”I agree with you but I don’t like it.” Quotes have been gathered for centuries because people resonate with the words and that drives them to think inwardly on what they believe in. Stop being so melodramatic.

[@datura087]

Wow, Miss Diane is out here doing the work that is necessary and putting in the action. What a brave woman, if you're reading this Diane, you inspire me to stand up for what is right ❤

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

You can do things too! Here's my copypasta I want to encourage everyone. Don't feel powerless. I will tell you specifically how. I would screenshot this comment! -Vote and SPEAK TO your LOCAL representatives. Don't just focus on national elections. Focus on voting for and SPEAKING TO your local representatives, which will create a grassroots effect. Much legislation at the national levels started from grassroots efforts locally. And remember that whatever is spoken of in KZbin comments or with family will almost CERTAINLY never enter the ears of your elected representative. -Sign petitions and donate to nonprofits that are fighting on our behalf, like ToxicFreeFuture, EWG, BCPP, CEH, HBBF, and Ecocenter. -Vote with your wallet. Or just don't buy anything at all if you have what you need, so you don't have a stockpile of reusable grocery bags. Buy Zero Waste products. Download apps like Yuka, Think Dirty, DetoxMe, and Clearya. Use desktop version on Amazon, look under "sustainability features," and click "Safer Chemicals." Utilize toxic free product blogs and databases like TheFiltery, EWG, MyChemicalFreeHouse, Greenopedia, PrincessTigerLily, Leafscore, MayoClinic SkinSafe, ChemicalFreeAF. Collectively and even individually, we are not powerless. Change does happen and has! We just have to use our voices instead of despairing and doing nothing.

[@dvdv8197]

Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.

[@sampanchishin1087]

thats a fucking bar. im gunna use that

[@dvdv8197]

@@sampanchishin1087 please be my guest. Use it like it's soap!

[@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr]

stop reposting this.

[@custos3249]

Reporting this as spam from here on out

[@carpediem44]

​@@dvdv8197 Greed is not the desire for more. It's the desire for more at the expense of others.

[@Wes1262-x2k]

Lobbying = Corruption It's the same word

[@Blindsyde5762]

Corporate Lobbying to Government shouldn't exist. It should be illegal.

[@lizsegal5328]

Government needs to represent the people only but corporations sponsor politicians and lobby, while politicians also have vested interests in said corporations.

[@Pfromm007]

You're going to have to fight both political parties who work for lobbyists and donors.

[@Blindsyde5762]

@@Pfromm007 agreed , but RFK JR and Tulsi Gabbard are working with Trump now, so .... That's a start

[@yosefshawarma3739]

In America, they call it lobbying, elsewhere, it's corruption. Let it sink in.

[@Pfromm007]

@Blindsyde5762 They are all part of the club, though, if they are aligned with either party in any way.

[@ThatADHDKid]

I work at a poultry plant and the cutting boards that we use to cut almost every piece of breast meat is plastic and although they will get new ones when needed, the old ones take quite a lot of abuse and a lot of scratch marks are made everyday hundreds of thousands and thousands at a time It's just one location. The stuff goes way deeper than I think the average consumer realizes. It's just like all of your aluminum cans of soda typically have a plastic liner so it's not completely aluminum and you're drinking plastic even when you're drinking out of aluminum

[@timothysatyr6674]

im surprised they wouldn't use wood as its antibacterial

[@goingagainstthegrain]

I'm not shocked. ​

[@ThatADHDKid]

@@timothysatyr6674 capitalism is why lol... Plastic is far cheaper to make and replace if we had to use wooden cutting boards depending on the quality and the sealant used would determine the abuse it can withstand and the downside would be when they do need to be resurfaced you'll have to take them up completely and sand them down which will take quite a bit of time and money which could be spent on other things. And if they can save a penny anywhere, they will because capitalism

[@bairdjc]

The real question is, in this specific case, what's the alternative? Realize that you have to balance hygenic concerns, cost, etc etc. The only alternative to plastic would be wood, and we all know that's not going to be anywhere near as hygenic on an industrial scale. They also won't last as long, and will ultimately be distributing wood debris into food en lieu of plastic debris.

[@djack915]

Aluminum is NOT fit to invest either!

[@charanabasnayaka1926]

I used to work in a factory. When it rains those pellets flow everywhere & surrounding communities complain all the time. And company doesn't care at all.😢

[@tomstevens8243]

This is OUR planet. I'm pretty sure GOD didn't sell any of it to them at a good interest rate. We have the right to take it back. It's OURS. Them bastards took it all and not one of us gave them permission to do so. Wherever you live, take it back. Be prepared to be self sufficient but take it back. Our water, our trees, out air. It's ours and if they can't take care of it, they can all go to mars. (BEFORE they ruin our planet)

[@erinwill6743]

Hopefully RFK fixes all this

[@bradrielly7031]

I wouldn't hold my breathe waiting for that. If he tries trump and his big oil buddies will toss him like yesterdays news.

[@ericmackrodt9441]

I don't know it it's still like this but back when I still lived in Brazil, the most popular beer bottles were the 1 liter glass ones. When those bottles were empty, you could return them to where you bought and buy more beer for the cost of just the liquid. Whe deliveries of new full bottles were done, the truck would pick up those empty bottles, they would be returned to the factory, sterilized, a new label would be printed stuck to them if it wasn't printed directly on the bottle and the full bottles would be redistributed. Even Coca-Cola did that, I remember buying glass Coke bottles with logo worn off as those bottles had the label printed directly on them and the bottles were reused many times. I know the US used to do that with milk bottles. It's such a better system and coke from glass tastes better.

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

Acrylonitrile polymers are still in use today, just not in beverage containers. We know them as ABS and ASA, and the former is the primary ingredient in Lego bricks; both formulations are used in plumbing pipes, mainly drain pipes. They're also available as 3D printing materials, but they require either ventilation or significant air filtering because they off-gas styrene and particulates during printing, more than PLA or PETG.

[@sylcomaws]

As a commercial fishermen on the Galveston Bay, I can tell you the year 1979 was telling, I can tell you it became harder and harder to make a living on the Texas Gulf Coast, we attributed it to many other things, regulations implemented for the fishing industry did not save the industry, the problem just got worse. I finally realized at some point it had to be related to all the chemicals being produced on the bay, I have lived here on the bay my whole life and this is the first time I have heard this, but it’s not the first time I have seen those pellets.

[@jolenereader1610]

I have a feeling that one day earth will shake all of us off and heal itself.

[@WillOz-d3e]

Thank God for the woman who is fighting these corporations. I'd like to do that kind of investigative work to make our living areas safer

[@willdatsun]

plastic should be banned for things that there are viable alternatives for, ie bottles, wrap, toothbrushes, pipes, anything. nobody ever had a wood spill , glass spill or steel spill.

[@marcellabrowning315]

What is a good alternative to a toothbrush, please?

[@delfuscreeto7552]

@@marcellabrowning315 A bunch of things not plastic apparently; Like Neem and Miswak(don't ask me what they look like I just googled what people used before plastic). Also animal hair bristles used to be fairly popular in the 1700s

[@willdatsun]

@@marcellabrowning315 The wooden ones.

[@RikNelson-x5t]

@@willdatsunbut the bristles on the tooth brush are also plastic

[@willdatsun]

@@RikNelson-x5t 'Brush Naked' and some others have non-plastic bristles.

[@cheezekit]

THIS is a video that needs millions of views. This should be on the news. Great video

[@taylorindustries]

man i just realised we will end the world ourselves .

[@Strat782]

We must go back to glass

[@2bNot]

Apparently 'israel' will turn us all to glass. Problem solved.

[@Vagabond_Etranger]

But glass breaks, & heavy to use in shipping, so you carry less in a trailer. There is no easy solution.

[@voot3926]

@@Vagabond_Etranger convenience isnt a necessity

[@Vagabond_Etranger]

@@voot3926 Well, when you have to ship billion tons of product, by weight, & trucking companies charges by the weight, tell me the solution then, so I know how to implement them.

[@southeasternlover]

Indeed

[@tesselationstation]

My God! Need to support local, ethical industry, businesses. Stop buying plastic products, supporting big businesses.

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

Specifically (this is copypasta) I want to encourage everyone. Don't feel powerless. I will tell you specifically how. I would screenshot this comment! -Vote and SPEAK TO your LOCAL representatives. Don't just focus on national elections. Focus on voting for and SPEAKING TO your local representatives, which will create a grassroots effect. Much legislation at the national levels started from grassroots efforts locally. And remember that whatever is spoken of in KZbin comments or with family will almost CERTAINLY never enter the ears of your elected representative. -Sign petitions and donate to nonprofits that are fighting on our behalf, like ToxicFreeFuture, EWG, BCPP, CEH, HBBF, and Ecocenter. -Vote with your wallet. Or just don't buy anything at all if you have what you need, so you don't have a stockpile of reusable grocery bags. Buy Zero Waste products. Download apps like Yuka, Think Dirty, DetoxMe, and Clearya. Use desktop version on Amazon, look under "sustainability features," and click "Safer Chemicals." Utilize toxic free product blogs and databases like TheFiltery, EWG, MyChemicalFreeHouse, Greenopedia, PrincessTigerLily, Leafscore, MayoClinic SkinSafe, ChemicalFreeAF. Collectively and even individually, we are not powerless. Change does happen and has! We just have to use our voices instead of despairing and doing nothing.

[@ilektrakaratasiou3352]

Thank you. I agree. Especially now that I try to run a small business with mending clothes and avoiding throwing any fabric away. Nothing is easy but mending, upcycling, reusing would make us care, love and avoid throwing fabrics and clothes away. I'm so careful and thoughtful about what we consume and it is a lot of effort in living holistically and so easy to throw away!! Yet nothing is really going "away" it just changes location...

[@indiecrowarts]

Seeing this just reinforces my belief that we need more lawsuits like Erin Brakovich

[@ChuckGonzalez-v6f]

This explains why I quit my habit of chewing on plastic. I get my plastic intake every day 😮

[@NotAnnaJones]

All our food now comes in plastic!!!!!

[@Phlegethon]

This world uses so much plastic where it doesn’t need to be

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

That's why Zero Waste blogs and subreddits exist and can help some

[@teklife]

it's sickening the disregard for human health and the environment for the sake of money

[@mexcavazos]

All for paper that is printed from machines. The human species will die for nothing more than paper. You cannot get more worthless than that.....