Why is Teflon even legal to produce in the quantities it is? Whereas there may be legitimate reasons to continue to manufacture the product there’s no reason, minus greed, to produce it in the quantity we do, perhaps we can just learn to scrub our fucking dishes again and leave Teflon to be used for applications that aren’t merely a matter of convenience?

The double standards are disgusting, Teflon is actively fucking up the environment but because it’s DuPont, just pay a few bucks and carry on.

DDT on the other hand was forced to go the way of the dodo based on poor science and the subsequent public outcry from it, similar to Teflon much of the problem stemmed from wild overuse, though DDT comparatively was still much less problematic, so instead of reigning in the matter reasonably they just banned the shit in spite of having potential to save millions of lives if used correctly.

And just to be clear, I’m not claiming DDT should be considered safe, sadly though most of what people think they know about it is based on erroneous information. DDT held the promise of preventing untold amount of Malaria before other options existed and to this day it could still turn out to the the most effective means to diminish a major outbreak.

There’s also Zika but because of the time I’ve spent in traditional malaria hotspots it’s the illness I immediately think about in regards to DDT.