If you have ever used Roundup to kill weeds in your yard, you were contributing to a massive problem and may not have known it. Roundup contains forever chemicals known as PCBs. They call them forever chemicals because they will never break down. Once they get inside our air or water, they will always be there causing damage to wildlife and people.
The prevalence of PCBs in our ecosystem is so massive that most water is not safe to drink, fish aren’t safe to eat, and 80% of adults have PCBs in their blood. PCBs have been linked to skin conditions such as acne and rashes, it causes changes in our blood and urine that indicate liver damage. Some of the acute effects of PCBs include extreme body weight loss, cancer, dermal toxicity, fatty liver damage, suppression of our immune system, and more.
Recently Oregon won a 698 million settlement against Monsanto, the maker of Roundup and other products that contain PCBs. The reason why the settlement is so large is because Monsanto has been polluting Oregon water, air, and land for the last 90 years. Even though people were getting sick from PCBs, Monsanto continued to sell their products.
The truth is $698 million dollars will never be able to clean up the forever chemicals that they left behind. Those chemicals will be in our ecosystem for our kids, for their children, for their children, and forever more. These forever chemicals have made it so we can no longer swim in lakes, rivers, and must be very cautious about our exposure to our environment including eating any fish or wildlife that has been exposed to PCBs.
The state of Oregon claimed that even when Monsanto had overwhelming evidence of the hazards of PCBs, they continued to flood the country with these toxic materials. Monsantos own internal document show that it was not interested in protecting people or the environment. Their only concern was protecting their balance sheet.
The good news is PCBs have been banned from any products. And this lawsuit should be a warning to any company to not try to break any of those laws.
In the meantime, it is very important that you filter your tap water with a premium multi-stage water filter like what can be found in our water ionizers.
