Today’s Dire Environmental Forecast
Think Teflon is the greatest thing since sliced bread?
In North America, it has been widely reported, as many as 95 per cent of all people have traces of the key ingredient in Teflon — PFOA for perfluorooctanoic acid — in their bloodstream. What’s more, this compound, which has been linked (in very high doses) to health and reproductive problems in lab animals, can take decades or longer to be expelled from the body.
It seems that the miracle that creates non-stickiness is chemicals. And not just any chemicals, toxic chemicals. Very toxic chemicals. Won’t anyone think of the polar bears?
And speaking of polar bears, I meant to link to this story a while back. The shockingly stange but true case of the Pizzly / Grolar Bear.