Natural Bytes E-newsletter #869: PFAS Are Placing Our Ingesting Water Below Risk!


 

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E-newsletter #869: PFAS Are Placing Our Ingesting Water Below Risk!
 

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EPA’s Limits for PFAS Are Placing Our Ingesting Water Below Risk

Tom Perkins writes for The Guardian:

“A number of surprising plaintiffs are behind a authorized problem aiming to kill the Environmental Safety Company’s groundbreaking new consuming water limits for extremely poisonous PFAS: the US’s water utilities, represented by their main commerce teams.

However utility business opposition to scrub water laws is nothing new. Although utilities’ mission is to offer the US with clear and secure water, their commerce teams have for many years typically fiercely opposed initiatives to enhance high quality.

Utilities have efficiently helped kill, delay or weaken just about all proposed limits on poisonous substances like lead, the rocket gas perchlorate, and carcinogenic disinfectants.

The utility business additionally lobbied to weaken the Secure Ingesting Water Act’s 1996 revision, which is essentially why the EPA since then has solely efficiently set a brand new restrict for one contaminant – PFAS – and that also could also be undone, mentioned Erik Olson, senior adviser to the Pure Sources Protection Council (NRDC) Motion Fund, who additionally lobbied on the laws.

The US now faces a baffling situation through which those that are chargeable for cleansing its water are thought of to be the largest impediment to secure water, public well being advocates say. Utilities typically work ‘arm and arm’ with the chemical business to assault guidelines, Olson mentioned.

‘It has been throughout the board that when the EPA tries to advance sturdy new guidelines, many utilities combat towards it,’ he added.”



Examine how the business regularly downplays the general public well being dangers of poisonous substances and claims the fee to take away them are too excessive regardless of overwhelming proof that the chemical compounds are poisonous at very low ranges

Please take motion! The explanation why PFAS has been detected within the blood of 98% of Individuals and is contaminating 45% of U.S. faucet water is as a result of corporations like 3M and DuPont have all the time had (and, in keeping with the federal Environmental Safety Company, nonetheless have) a free cross to dump their waste proper into streams, rivers and sewage techniques. Demand that our elected officers create laws to ban these poisonous substances! Inform your state legislators to ban poisonous PFAS!

ENVIRONMENT

5 Simple Methods To Shield Wildlife This Fall

By Justin Wheeler, Scott Hoffman Black and Deborah Seiler, The Xerces Society:

“Listed here are some easy methods you may assist the fascinating invertebrates who might name your yard or backyard dwelling!

Go away the leaves, or transfer them only a bit.

Leaving the leaves and different plant particles doesn’t should imply sacrificing your yard to the wilderness.  A skinny layer of leaves is definitely wholesome for grass, however the leaves additionally don’t have to be left precisely the place they fall. You may rake them into backyard beds, round tree bases, or into different designated areas. Leaves are nice for soil high quality: they’ll suppress weeds, retain moisture, and enhance diet. And perennial crops recognize the additional insulation by the winter, too!


Keep away from shredding leaves; let the bugs do this for you!

Shredded leaves is not going to present the identical cowl as leaving them complete, and it’s possible you’ll be destroying eggs, caterpillars, and cocoons together with the leaves. As a substitute of a mower, use a rake or blower to maintain leaves intact. Should you use leaves for compost, think about making a leaf pile and permitting it to interrupt down naturally if house permits. Millipedes, roly-polys, and different leaf-eating bugs will assist and benefit from the meal! You can even add the leaves progressively to your present compost pile.

Flip these fallen branches and logs right into a brush pile habitat.

As a substitute of trashing items of wooden, stack them up! Loads of bugs search out fallen items of wooden to hibernate in. Piles could be as large or small as you’ve house for, and you may cover the pile behind a hedge or wildflowers to maintain the yard wanting clear. Logs and stumps may also be used as borders round a local planting space so as to add definition to the house.”

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PESTICIDES

Revealed: The U.S. Authorities-Funded ‘Personal Social Community’ Attacking Pesticide Critics

By Carey Gillam, Margot Gibbs and Elena DeBre, The Guardian:

“In 2017, two United Nations consultants known as for a treaty to strictly regulate harmful pesticides, which they mentioned had been a ‘international human rights concern’, citing scientific analysis displaying pesticides may cause cancers, Parkinson’s illness, Alzheimer’s and different well being issues.

Publicly, the pesticide business’s lead commerce affiliation dubbed the suggestions ‘unfounded and sensational assertions’. In personal, business advocates have gone additional.

Derogatory profiles of the 2 UN consultants, Hilal Elver and Baskut Tuncak, are hosted on a web-based personal portal for pesticide firm staff and a variety of influential allies.

Members can entry a variety of private details about a whole lot of people from all over the world deemed a risk to business pursuits, together with the US meals writers Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman, the Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva and the Nigerian activist Nnimmo Bassey.

Many profiles embody private particulars such because the names of relations, telephone numbers, dwelling addresses and even home values.

The profiling is a part of an effort – that was financed, partly, by US taxpayer {dollars} – to downplay pesticide risks, discredit opponents and undermine worldwide policymaking, in keeping with courtroom information, emails and different paperwork obtained by the non-profit newsroom Lighthouse Experiences.”

Learn the way our tax {dollars} are getting used towards us to maintain us in darkish concerning the risks of pesticide publicity

HEALTHY DEMOCRACY

Defending the Proper to Protest

Annie Leonard, Patagonia Tales:

“Up to now few years, company pursuits have been working further exhausting to erode the best to do what activists do after they come collectively to handle an issue: communicate out, arrange, collaborate, increase funds, and when different avenues of democratic participation fail to provide outcomes, put their our bodies on the road by acts of nonviolent civil disobedience.

These are all totally different types of protest, and all are important instruments within the toolbox of these in search of to stop the plunder of our planet.

For communities most excluded from decision-making processes, protest is usually the one avenue of democratic participation that’s available. That is partly why civil disobedience—a tactic that oftentimes entails breaking the legislation—has helped cement monumental human rights wins for social actions internationally, led by the likes of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Gandhi.

Protest, whether or not with phrases or one’s physique, is highly effective, not only for the decision-makers challenged, but in addition for the members. Traditionally, state-sanctioned violence towards protestors unfairly targets Black, Indigenous, and different folks of colour—for fellow protestors, this makes the act of solidarity much more necessary.”

Examine how we protest as a result of it really works—and it’s exactly as a result of protest works when it’s beneath assault

NATURAL HEALTH

20 Pure Treatments To Soothe a Sore Throat

Evaluation by Dr. Joseph Mercola:

“STORY-AT-A-GLANCE

* Sore throat, or pharyngitis, causes ache and irritation within the throat, making swallowing and speaking uncomfortable. It’s generally brought on by viral infections like colds or flu, however may also outcome from bacterial infections, allergens, irritants, or acid reflux disease

* Whereas most sore throats resolve on their very own inside every week, there are pure methods to appease your throat, scale back irritation and assist your immune system

* Uncooked honey, saltwater gargle, apple cider vinegar, peppermint tea, marshmallow root and slippery elm have varied therapeutic properties to offer aid from discomfort and assist handle signs

* Further methods for aid embody steam inhalation to moisturize throat tissues, acupuncture to cut back the frequency and severity of sore throat and enough relaxation to assist immune perform

* Prevention is best than remedy. Tricks to assist your immune system and scale back your threat for sore throat are included beneath”

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Working In direction of a Brighter Future

In addition to our on going campaigns and tasks, we’re funding and producing the upcoming People’s Food Summit on October sixteenth.

We’re producing this summit to coach folks about regenerative, natural farming and the way by this fashion of farming, we will survive and thrive, letting farmer’s success tales from all over the world unfold, and be the inspiration for folks to implement these practices in their very own communities.

Learn these phrases from our former Worldwide Director Ronnie Cummins for one of many many the reason why soil administration is likely one of the many causes this fashion of farming is so essential for the entire planet in our local weather disaster.

“We’re going to should get again to natural soil administration so as to survive on this period of local weather instability as a result of with natural farming and natural husbandry or ranching, the soil is alive, it’s full of trillions of microorganisms and fungi, and it’s like a sponge, actually, in comparison with chemically handled soil, you set a shovel in it and you may see a distinction.

However the essential factor about having the soil alive and sponge-like is that when it rains, it retains that moisture beneath the soil, for a substantial time frame, in order that when you’ve a protracted interval between rainfall, the crops can nonetheless survive.

These days, we’ve had as an alternative of a gentle rain at predictable instances, we regularly have all the best way throughout North America, these torrential downpours, when it lastly does rain, it’s a flood, and the factor about natural soil, is that it may possibly soak up numerous the water, it doesn’t all simply run off and wash away the soil, so it may possibly allow the crops to outlive, it holds the soil, it holds the vitamins in, so we don’t actually have a lot alternative however to all turn out to be reacquainted with the soil.

The soil is definitely the very most necessary factor round us, if we don’t take note of this, we’re going to be very very sorry, however the good factor is that we will turn out to be natural gardeners, like our grandparents had been, even when we’re simply beginning with pots in our windowsills, after which our backyards, and so forth.

We will assume earlier than we pull out our wallets, we will discover ways to prepare dinner once more from fundamental grains, eat decrease on the meals chain, you’ll be more healthy, you’ll be happier, and that is the best way we’re going to be consuming sooner or later.”

Together with your assist we’re working in the direction of a brighter future.

Donate $50 and recieve a paperback copy of The Regenerative Agriculture Answer — by André Leu and Ronnie Cummins

Check out our sister organization Regeneration International, and please make a tax-deductible donation, if you can, to help us keep the momentum going!

Regeneration International will be hosting the 4th annual People’s Food Summit, World Food Day, October 16, 2024. This unique event is a major 24-hour event celebration of World Food Day featuring exciting speakers from every region of our planet.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Natural Customers Affiliation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

USDA WATCH

In ‘Barons,’ Austin Frerick Takes on the Most Highly effective Households within the Meals System

Twilight Greenaway writes for Civil Eats:

“I perceive meals reformers try to [make change] day after day, however every so often, you need to step again and have a look at the larger image. This [bill] was in-built a unique world. It’s so corrupted and corroded. We have to rethink it. And the USDA goes again to the Civil Battle.  It’s not a foul factor to have a look at reorganizing the system. Let’s put meals analysis beneath Well being and Human Companies. Why does USDA have antitrust authority? We must always give that to the FTC.

The issue with USDA now could be it acts like a chamber of commerce, or a promotional company for the barons. And with each metric—besides company earnings—they’ve failed: The farmer’s share of the greenback is at an all-time low. One in 10 Individuals works within the meals system, and the best way staff are handled is appalling. And by well being requirements, Individuals usually are not doing properly. It’s exhausting to make a case that they need to proceed as-is primarily based on this guidelines of failures.

I need readers to know that the system we’ve got now could be radical. It’s radical that one man in Iowa raised 5 million hogs a yr. The reforms in that final chapter, numerous it’s going again to the best way techniques was—like placing animals again on land. That isn’t radical; that’s how animals have lived for many of their existence. I perceive that the barons and their lackeys will body me as a radical, however no, it’s their company capitalist system that’s extremely radical. And you may’t speak about fixing or reforming one thing except you’ve an sincere dialog about the place it’s at.”

Be taught what occurs if you permit concentrated energy

Read Austin Frerick’s book to help understand the pitfalls of our American food system

REGENERATION INTERNATIONAL

Please Be a part of Us for the 4th Annual Individuals’s Meals Summit on October 16, 2024

Regeneration Worldwide (RI) is thrilled to host the Individuals’s Meals Summit, October 16, 2024!

This would be the fourth time Regeneration Worldwide will host the Individuals’s Meals Summit. This distinctive occasion is a significant 24-hour celebration of World Meals Day, that includes inspiring audio system from each area of our planet.

The 2021, 2022 and 2023 occasions had been spectacularly profitable, with over 500,000 folks, from all areas of the world, tuning in to observe and take heed to our quite a few audio system and their important matters.

In 2022, we promoted movies that we thought to be highlights of every area and reached one other 700,000 views, bringing the full views to 1,200,000. As a result of we reached so many individuals, this occasion had a really excessive impression and can proceed to attach folks by regeneration and meals sovereignty.

The aim of the summit is to reinforce the connectedness of world work amongst quite a few like-minded organizations. We search to interact a whole lot of 1000’s by exchanging data and sharing inspiring tales.

Our Mission:

1. Info Alternate
2. Creating connections the place totally different teams can proceed working collectively afterwards
3. Stimulating a citizen-led analysis and storytelling journey
4. Beginning a partnership the place RI continues to allow the scale-up of tasks
5. Rising the attain of this very important data to a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals

It’s the solely 24-hour international, participatory, digital summit beginning in Oceania and shifting westwards by the time zones of Asia, the Center East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America. The Individuals’s Meals Summit is a very participatory summit that empowers many of the world’s meals producers: the household farmers, pastoralists, and foresters who produce 70% of our meals. Regenerative natural agriculture, agroecology, and local weather change are featured within the summit.

We intend to broaden this format for the 2025 summit and proceed to current the confirmed, farmer-based, real-world examples which can be the way forward for our meals and farming techniques. These embody agroecology, natural and regenerative farming, permaculture, agroforestry, holistically managed grazing, and plenty of different techniques.  

Watch this trailer for a peek into this inspiring 24 hours of tales from folks all over the world, about residing on the land and sharing practices that may heal the earth and convey abundance and connection

Register here for an email notification when this free online summit starts

Please join us and spread the word about the People’s Food Summit

HEALTH

Cancerous Flame Retardants in Black Plastic, Examine Says

Dieter Holger, Shopper Affairs:

“Black plastic is usually stuffed with cancerous, hormone disrupting flame retardants, a first-of-its-kind examine finds.

A sushi tray, spatula and beaded necklace are amongst black plastic objects that examined with excessive ranges of the poisonous chemical compounds, in keeping with a examine printed within the journal Chemosphere and sponsored by environmental nonprofit Poisonous Free Future.

Flame retardants are linked to most cancers, mind harm and reproductive difficulties.

The examine discovered flame retardants in 17 of the 20 merchandise that had been examined, with whole concentrations starting from 40 to 22,800 components per million.

By comparability, a California legislation that went into impact in 2020 restricted flame retardants in kids’s merchandise, mattresses and upholstered furnishings to 1,000 components per million.

The banned flame retardant deca-BDE was additionally current at ranges from 5 to 1,200 instances higher than the European Union’s restrict of 10 components per million.”

Learn extra concerning the quantity of cancerous flame retardants that had been within the varied black plastic objects

NATURAL MEDICINE

7 Well being Advantages of Elderberry

The Develop Community:

“Are you searching for a secure, pure drugs to make use of this chilly and flu season? Elderberry received’t disappoint. It’s been used all through human historical past, even being planted on the edges of gardens to behave as a guardian over the opposite crops. And simply because the Elder Mom sorted her little ones within the backyard, she might help to take care of you and your little ones, too.

Elderberry medicines could be bought or created in a wide range of totally different varieties. Elder merchandise embody teas, syrups, wines, lozenges and drugs, juices, sprays, powders, tinctures, kombuchas, soda, gummies, and practically anything you may think about. You may even make your personal elderberry ice cream. Whereas elderberry syrup might be the most-used type of elderberry drugs, any of those can be acceptable and helpful. Use whichever one calls to you.

Each the flowers and the berries can be utilized in medicines. The flowers are extra light. Because of this, many individuals like to make use of flower-based merchandise with kids.”

Learn concerning the secure, pure and highly effective advantages of Elderberry

GMOs

George Monbiot’s Ally RePlanet Accused of Smelling “Like Astroturf”

Jonathan Matthews writes for GM Watch:

“George Monbiot has attacked The Land journal for having succumbed to ‘the present wave of conspiracism’ in its criticism of his involvement with Mark Lynas and the rebranded ecomodernist group RePlanet, who promote nuclear energy, GMOs, and artificial meals.

Monbiot took exception to a lead editorial in The Land (subject no. 32) entitled Rebooting Actuality: Ecomodernists need to ‘reboot meals’: Mike Hannis smells astroturf. Within the editorial, The Land’s co-editor, who can be a Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Politics and Atmosphere at Bathtub Spa College, wrote about RePlanet and its Reboot Meals marketing campaign, as a part of which, ‘RePlanet kindly funded a (Monbiot) talking tour of Europe, and related media blitz, selling Monbiot’s controversial guide Regenesis as a press release of their very own place’ In Regenesis, it could be remembered, Monbiot promotes artificial meals as a silver bullet for eliminating livestock-related farming, thus enabling the rewilding of huge tracts of rural land.

In his editorial, Hannis identified how properly RePlanet’s goals serve the pursuits of business. As an example, their Reboot Meals marketing campaign explicitly goals to safe state funding for the rising artificial meals business. He may equally have pointed to how completely RePlanet’s campaigning to droop natural farming targets and decontrol GMOs synchs with key present marketing campaign targets of the pesticides foyer in Brussels, the place RePlanet has an workplace.”

Examine how RePlanet’s cash is generated from financing a number of the most damaging industries on the planet

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