PFAS NEWS: Trouble in Dairyland?
Today, we are featuring a phenomenon that experts have been tracking for years, but that hasn’t been on the radar of the general population. PFAS in our milk. PFAS contamination is rampant and we are hearing more and more about it being a major contaminant in our water. Recently, the cases against big companies like Dupont and Teflon have been joined by a flood of litigation against other industrial plants as the list of PFAS contaminants grows ever longer. What you may not think much about is the impact of our water being contaminated on the agricultural cycle. One horrifying truth is that PFAS may be the most dangerous challenge dairy farms are facing today and many are completely unaware.
We know that PFAS contamination from industrial sources leaks into the surrounding earth. We also know that that PFAS seeps through the ground and often ends up in our clean ground water. Then, the ground water is used to water plant and farm animals such as cattle. Crops meant for animal feed are watered as well. Before you know it, the cows are receiving PFAS contamination from multiple sources and it is slowly building up in their bodies. What happens when those cows are milked and the milk in consumed? As you might imagine, that concentrated does of PFAS contamination is passed on to us, where it builds up in our bodies as well. The video below isn’t new, but it deserves more recognition as one of the avenues of PFAS contamination that we hear very little about. Are we witnessing the slow death of the American dairy farm?
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