Poison, Poison Everywhere

Posted by dividendpayee 10/26/2025

Poison, Poison Everywhere(loeber.substack.com)

326 points | 208 commentspage 4

MetroWind 10/27/2025|

This is probably the most 1st world thing I've read this year.

jonstewart 10/26/2025||

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DennisP 10/27/2025||

Suggesting a connection to Nazi ideology just because someone wants to help people avoid toxins seems a bit over the top to me.

jonstewart 10/27/2025||

Oh, I am not at all implying or insinuating this article is connected to populism, nationalism, etc., or advocating for them, nor mean to impugn the author through association. Lead is bad. PFAS and microplastics are bad. Glyphosate maybe is bad. I identify as a mild/moderate environmentalist (while also a mild/moderate yimby; I don’t see a necessary contradiction).

But to be more explicit, I think there’s an undercurrent of Blood and Soil at work in the USA today, it’s seen a little bit explicitly in MAHA, and I’m worried, a lot, about the future political implications, where the real damage we’ve done to the environment becomes an excuse for… more bad things.

luxuryballs 10/27/2025||

sounds like you accidentally consumed media poisoned with FUD and propaganda, having a federal department of health or food for your nation is nationalist, running it properly and keeping it away from corporate influence is anti-fascist, the modern day fascism is when corruption steers the health department away from serving the people’s health and instead locking it towards allowing “big pharma” to dictate regulations and review for their own benefit at the expense of the people’s taxes and health, the irony is watching the people trying to dismantle this fascism being called fascists

jonstewart 10/27/2025||

I did read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, it’s true.

kragen 10/27/2025|||

What's the relationship?

dcre 10/27/2025||

I have no problem with calling out fascists but I don’t see any connection here.

weregiraffe 10/27/2025|

What's worse, damage from lead or damage from constant obsession about lead?

lccerina 10/27/2025||

Damage from lead. The 'obsession' here is that the right level of lead in any product should be ZERO. There should be international pacts, like what was done for gases destroying the ozone layer, to remove lead entirely from products

lkuty 10/27/2025|||

This raises the interesting point of finding a balance between knowing/searching and letting go when it comes to health. Lead is a major one but obession about health can lead to anxiety, stress. I think that finding the major factors that affect health is what matters (sunlight, sleep, walking, cooking with stainless steel, etc.) and letting go of all the minor details. This is an issue that has been close to my heart for years, and my perspective on it has changed over time. Anxiety can be a real problem.

anal_reactor 10/27/2025||

At some point you're bound to reach the point of diminishing returns

garretraziel 10/27/2025|||

Damage from lead.

pjc50 10/27/2025||

Lead is actually dangerous. Arguably the panic from things which are .. much less well evidenced, shall we say, causes people to overlook the real problems.