rainwater no longer safe to drink

[Anonymous]

If the water isn't safe to drink, are fruits, vegetables and animal products that use rainwater for irrigation safe to eat?

[Anonymous]

Things will only change when the companies responsible for packaging this crap are forced to pay for clean-up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the water isn't safe to drink, are fruits, vegetables and animal products that use rainwater for irrigation safe to eat?

That is a very good question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the water isn't safe to drink, are fruits, vegetables and animal products that use rainwater for irrigation safe to eat?

That is a very good question.

I think we are pretty much screwed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the water isn't safe to drink, are fruits, vegetables and animal products that use rainwater for irrigation safe to eat?

That is a very good question.

I think we are pretty much screwed.

I hope not. Does anyone know the answer to PP's question?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The rain is way cleaner today than when I was a kid.

+1, grew up in Pittsburgh. The rain would etch and fade the paint on new cars within 6 months. We had a covered carport at our house, and my mom would keep her car under it where it wasn’t rained on much, and my dads car stayed in the driveway and got rained on. It looked years older, despite being only a year older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rain is way cleaner today than when I was a kid.

This.

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Sooo freaking stooopid. There is that gaslighting again.

PFAS were not in rain water when you were a kid. You literally don’t understand the OP yet you act smug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well we are doing it to ourselves. Also don’t let your kids drink from garden hose.

OP here yes we are.

I feel like we are also constantly being gaslit.

It is almost impossible to find any juice bottled in glass. Its near impossible to find salad dressing bottled in glass. Acidic foods in plastic is a no no which we have known for a very long time.

And yet we are just supposed to accept this. And no one is more willing to accept this nonsense than the American Consumer. And where they arent willing to accept it, its forced on them anyway. Not everyone can get into a car and drive to an organic food store to buy organic glass bottled juice. Heck I don't even do that anymore. I forced my kid to give up all juice and eat only whole fruit and drink water. Sure, thats fine too. But I am in a position where I can buy things like whole fruit.

The kicker was when they started bottling some liquors in plastic. And even wine on planes is now in plastic.

Glass jars are incredibly heavy and prone to breakage. So you have much higher food waste AND burn more fuel and make more CO2 transporting the glass and then trucking it to be recycled.

The only answer is less. Who drinks juice? It’s nutritional bereft? Make your own salad dressing, it’s way way tastier. Strive to eat unprocessed foods and that will help.

But honestly traveling trounces all those things as far as environmental impact, so to some degree it feels pointless. Not traveling would be a huge lifestyle change, trying to live like in the 1890s or something.