SPARKLING WATER PSA NO REALLY READ THIS TODAY
Quick PSA to all my stylish sparkling water drinkers: we gotta stop. No really, look up Polyfluoroalkyls (PFAs) and Sparkling Water concentrations. In fact, I’ll do you one better: read about it here. LaCroix and Topo Chico have some of the highest concentrations of these petroleum processing byproducts (poison water courtesy of ExxonMobil). PFAs can cause thyroid disease, hormone fluctuations, some cancers, and these chemicals never leave the body. I’ve been an avid drinker of these sodas for years and I’m stopping forever. And before the snotty fact crackers come in, these reports are from scientific journals and sources like CNN. The alarm is also being raised by environmental activists and water protectors. The future wars for water will be fought for least cancerous, not clean.
The EPA’s Article on Polyfluoroalkyls
NIH Report on PFAs and Their Effects
CNN Article on PFAs and How They’re Being Addressed
Insider Breakdown On How ExxonMobil Avoids Environmental Consequences For Knowingly and Willingly Producing PFAs
A Complete Backlog of Newsletters from Northwestern University’s Department of Social Sciences and Environmental Science on the ways PFAs Have Evolved
PFA Resource Guide
This fight for clean water that isn’t literally filled with cancerous chemicals is also intrinsically tied to the Indigenous fight for water rights and the attempts to stop pipelines like DAPL and the new attempt of connecting Line 3.
To support the efforts of the Indigenous to stop Line 3 click HERE.
They have made countless research materials and reports public and accessible. If you are within the Minnesota Area please consider supporting their efforts and calling out to your representatives who hold the rights of water hostage with their political actions. Because, and I mean this literally, there is no future without water.