The Goat Pen

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After watching a documentary called The Devil We Know regarding Dupont and Teflon, I'd move given the plant there. Holy shit, that is a scariest documentary I've watched in a long time and the movie with Mark Ruffalo doesn't do it justice.

Then again, his occupation probably helps living there.

DuPont was also instrumental in getting hemp illegalized in the late 1930's. They were developing nylon and their biggest competitor was hemp...

the documentary is basically about how they poisoned the entire world and this plant in Parkersburg, WV was killing everything close to it - like every animal that drank from the stream, and then that stream makes it way to the Ohio river.

then just in passing they said "oh, and they have another plant in Fayettesville, NC that also makes Teflon and Gen-X" and didn't touch on it again.

Watch that documentary, or maybe you are better off not knowing. 99% of the entire planet has this chemical in its blood stream thanks to DuPont and well 3M...but 3M admitted it was bad and told people to stop using it. DuPont just doubled down on it.

We’ve always known Eastern North Carolinians have been a bit off. We just thought it was inbreeding.

Western PA is such a progressive, advanced place...

I'm 20 miles upstream from the DuPont/Chemours plant. The plant is near the Cumberland/Bladen county line.

Ironically, Smithfield Foods owns and operates the world's largest pork processing facility is just down the road from said plant....

I'd get the fuck out of there - at a minimum, if you haven't already, buy a good water filter and only drink/cook from it

This is coming from a guy who grew up around a nuclear facility where people ate uranium sandwiches to show it was safe

at least you're upstream

actually I doubt I would sell my home and move my family, hell we're down stream from the Parkersburg facility and technically, we are included in the lawsuit if we can prove harm from the PFOA chemicals, and I ain't doing shit

but since say 1994, every house I have lived in has had a high dollar reverse osmosis water filter. That was after learning the paper mill my wife worked at was dumping dioxins into the water unregulated. The hotel we stayed at when we moved there had a sign in the bathroom about the water being brown and that was just the charm of the city.

speaking of that - if you live in this band of the country, I"m not sure it extends into North Carolina, but when I was in the hospital and they were sticking tubes up every hole and my head into microwaves they found a "nodule" in my lung that was 4cm and so I had to go see a specialist to find out if it was cancer or whatever. I wasn't really worried about it but still you know, they find some shit, you're gonna think about it

So I go there and the doctor asks me some strange questions. After we got past the "are you a smoker" type questions, he asked me how long I've lived here, am I an outdoorsman, that sort of thing and after a few questions, I started asking where are you going with this. Turns out there is a fungus that grows in this part of the country, in this climate, and like those PFOA's, if you live here, its going to get in your system and at some point in your lungs. Some people's body has some type of defense where it just builds scar tissue around it to close it off and that is what happened to me, and it was large enough to show up on an MRI

so the moral of the story is don't do Shrooms in your late 40's or you'll get fake lung cancer

Didn't you mean the "morel" of the story?

if you guys had a chance to participate in a vaccine trial of Covid-19 - the Astra Seneca version, would you do it?

they have asked me to and I'm mixed on it.

Do it

Fuck no..

my wife said I shouldn't do it

I don't know , I've never been a big anti vaxxer type, as I understand it, phase III is based on whether the vaccine actually works, phase II determined whether it was safe

I'd love to get it, and it work, and then be like fuck you guys, I'm immune, I'm going to lick doorknobs and eat gum off the sidewalk

but my luck I'd get the placebo

"I'm ammune, I'm going to lick doorknobs and eat gum off the sidewalk"

Not being immune never stopped Rat from doing that...

Still doesn't

Fuck no. I don't even take flu shots.

But if they're offering free crack even with the suggestion that it's gaffle, I'll take it

You'd smoke dry wall if it came to it...