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Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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 theyre consumers. Money wins, 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.
I changed many many habits whike learning about all this. Keeo learning, change your buying habits, and try to educate folks when appropriate.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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, and they are high density, housing, and sidewalks that everybody loves.
This is just sentiments of a child who doesn’t understand the world they live in.