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Thanksgiving Day, 2025
- centerlanegifts
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
The Real Cost of Those Eggs pt.62
Before I begin, I’m sure we wish the National guard members that got ambushed yesterday in Washington our prayers and living light to their recovery.
Just another small piece of lasagna please, all right maybe another sweet sausage too, that's it though. Give it a half hour later, just a little more turkey, love that harvest dressing sure i’ll take another scoop.
That's just part one of the Thanksgiving meal on this day in America, Then after an hour of football and another glass of wine you hear a collective “I’M HUNGRY” and it starts all over again, except this time it ends with a sliver of carrot cake and cheesecake on the same plate.
Meanwhile our Divider & Thief is in Fla. playing yet another round of golf on the taxpayer dime.
Not to kill the festive mood of the day but, there are a few things you should know next time you buy produce. Remember it’s all part of RFK’s
MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN
On Nov. 18, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the use of the pesticide isocycloseram on golf courses, institutional settings, and decorative lawns, as well as on a host of crops, including cereal grains, dozens of types of peas and beans, tomatoes, oranges, almonds, and more. The move comes just two weeks after the agency approved another pesticide, cyclobutrifluram, for similarly wide use.
The particular problem with these pesticides is that both of them contain toxic PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. PFAS are more colloquially known as “forever chemicals,” because that pretty much describes how long they linger in the environment. While they don’t remain in the body quite as persistently, according to a 2020 study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, PFAS are present in the blood serum of 98% of Americans tested. The chemicals do get purged, principally in urine, but continued environmental exposure can steadily replace what has been eliminated.PFAS have been linked by the EPA itself to an increased risk of a host of health effects, including decreased fertility, hypertension in pregnant people, increased risk of certain cancers (especially kidney cancer), developmental delays in children, hormonal irregularities, elevated cholesterol, reduced effectiveness of the immune system, and more.
The approval of the two chemicals is part of a larger pattern by the Trump Administration to broaden the use of PFAS-containing pesticides on industrial and private farms across the country. Under the Biden Administration, the EPA approved just one such pesticide, late in the then-president’s single term—a chemical known as fluazaindolizine, which was cleared to be used on foods such as carrots, squash, tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, oranges, peaches, almonds, and grapes. The Trump Administration has already doubled that approval rate in its first year in office, and is looking to give the thumbs-up to a total of five
PFAS pesticides before the year is out. That could spell trouble. "The problem for a lot of these chemicals is that they haven't really been fully studied,” says Erik Olson, pesticide expert and senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “We do know that some of these forever chemicals are carcinogens. Some of them interfere with reproduction, some of them interfere with the immune system. They tend to be exquisitely toxic at very low doses—at parts per quadrillion or parts per trillion. So the idea that we’re spraying these chemicals on our food is something we worry about.”
So I think it’s easy to say that in RFK’s big plan for “MAHA” much like the rest of the Trump Administration,
Nov. 27th. 2025
Avg. price of 1 doz. Grade A eggs Nationwide are $3.80 down .07 cents since 11/25/25
The avg. price of 1 gallon of regular gas Nationwide is $2.95, up 0.02 cents since 11/25/25
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