DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe
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- democracynow.org - Broadcasting from the Sundance Film Festival, we are joined by three guests who personally battled with DuPont and are featured in the new documentary called “The Devil We Know,” that looks at how former DuPont employees, residents and lawyers took on the chemical giant to expose the danger of the chemical C8, found in Teflon and countless household products-from stain- and water-resistant apparel to microwave popcorn bags to dental floss. The chemical has now been linked to six diseases, including testicular and kidney cancers. We speak with Bucky Bailey, whose mother worked in the Teflon division of a DuPont plant in West Virginia while she was pregnant with him, and who was born with only one nostril and a deformed eye and has undergone more than 30 surgeries to fix the birth defects; Joe Kiger, lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against DuPont, and a school teacher in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who suffered from liver disease; and Rob Bilott, the attorney that brought DuPont to court.
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"if I poisoned anyone, I would be arrested and thrown in jail" ...just goes to show....if you have money, you are beyond the law! 😠🤯
Corporate greed= evil! 🤬
Very True!
Remember the line, "corporations are people." I think the facts prove otherwise.
I hate it when these kind of people hide behind a corporation.
@@litawarehime3694 Corporations are people, peopled by people with corporate privileges. Privileges like the right to spew toxins into the air, water and land with impunity, tamper with the ionosphere with ionospheric heaters and chemical synthetic clouds, dump nuclear waste into the oceans and much more.
I do not think we should point fingers to big corporations for making money...what goes around comes around. Some people take advantage of the system by suing anyone with money without taking responsibility for the part they play in the issue at hand. DuPont employs a lot of people. Plenty of those suing or complaining grew up with parents who worked with the company. Let's faces, we make choices and must live with the consequences of our actions. I propose we work forward, learn from the past and avoid calamities for the future.
And after all of this, DuPont still exists, still sells their products, still making money.
And still donating to the politicians.
If you see the difficulties holding criminally reckless companies accountable for poisoning innocent bystanders now - imagine - trump is busily stacking the courts to defend criminally negligent companies from lawsuits and criminal charges as i write.
Mohammed cool yes, they just moved to China and less environmentally regulated countries to continue to make their products and sell them here in the USA, and I bet anything they have their lobbyists lobbying for less regulations and blaming regulations for having to move out of the country.
Yep. But they moved all of their products like Teflon, Freon, and Krytox to Chemours, a spinoff company made after DuPont merged with Dow (another chemical giant with a notoriously bad environmental record). With this, DuPont were able to essentially get away scott-free. Corporate law in this country is beyond fucked.
Yes: Zyklon B !
Didn’t learn anything about this until watching Dark Water.
Same.
Though my mom threw away my Teflon pans and bought me new, stainless steel pans when I was pregnant. She knew long ago.
Thank you, mom!
Same here
NOBODY seemed to have learned anything about an earlier and comparable situation which has been spread WORLWIDE too..... The use on high volumes and on big scale for a very long period until...NOW !! Talking about ASBESTOS-exposure for decades since WW II / 1945 and even ín the war. Asbestos-victims amounts are worldwide - as far as countable... - incredible: over 700.000 dead..., and many still to come in a near and further future. My dad was one of them.
So true, it's only after watching the movie I went up and did research
@@ericastewart3852 me too
this needs a billion views why is everyone so concerned with non important things
Because everyone had been distracted by irrelevant things after focusing on important stuff. For example, work and school makes people have limited time to focus on other stuff. Think about it. If I'm worried about finances, work, school, and other things, I don't have time to worry about other. Then, during free time, I wanna relax. We do need to address these things. It's unfair for us to be used like guinea pigs.
@@shimmer4771 true i guess but damn bet if eminems nudes get leaked itll get a billion views in a week!
@@doxazo-2718 Because that's how it is nowadays. People have become focused on the wrong things. That's a prime example of what's wrong with society. Why is it that people can get famous for making fools of themselves, yet people with actual talent are disappearing? Why are people so messed up that this is the result? Honestly, it's sad how people just like talentless wannabees and ignore real talent who deserves a shot.
have you seen the new Netflix movie ? you MUST see it !!
@@carmineredd1198 no i havent but ill check it out , whats it called?
That's now part of what we know. Just imagine what we don't know.
💯% right
Exactly
No, dont imagine the unknown, because it is endless and gets little work done.
Instead collect enough information for you to make a decision, like we know that PTFE is very carcinogenic and biologically non-degradable; that settles it. It must stop polluting the planet.
I really dont like those general thoughts that try to be applicable to everything. Theyre not, and often impractical.
@@thedude4795
You mean general thoughts like chemicals that have never existed before in nature should not be dumped all over the place because it might cost some money to clean them up or dispose of them? That seems like a general thought ... like a general no-brainer.
I'll give you one. See the doco "Stink!" to see that we shouldn't be using anything with synthetic fragrances. Another high toxin to avoid is flame retardants that our sofas, beds and fabrics are soaked in. A third is the glyphosate that non-organic wheat is sprayed with. You're right -- we need to keep investigating, but obviously, the closer to nature, the better.
The system is broken, and we are ruled by evil.
(the "god" of this world is the devil, however his lease is almost up)
There is no God
We could meet in the middle and agree that there are devils.
Cheer up pal. Not everywhere.
@@duff9000 A human with all our limitations is no one to baes this on
DuPont and Monsanto needs to be dismantled now.
We are beyond that now.... These rabid animals need to be put down and have their wealth dismantled
Death would be too good for them, a slow death dying from poisoning by their own chemicals, no medical intervention, no pain meds just pure suffering - maybe drawn and quartered after, tattooed and hung on their front gates for all to see... Let them rot there and the birds to pick their bones clean... Its what every company that lies, kills and pollutes our earth for profit
@@c.a.greene8395 I like your spirit 😄✌️👊 Fr, these things make me feel fucking crazy! 🤬 I know we need to not feel like this whole thing is hopeless, but it's REALLY hard to hold that thought
@@els1f these companies are racing each other to the end of the world liquidation sale and they are killing us all, sterilizing the earth of all life, right down to the bacteria in the soil and plankton in the waters, depleting the oceans of oxygen and it makes my blood boil!
Where are all the pissed off postal workers when we need them? Maybe we should make it open season on ceo's and shareholders of huge megalomaniac companies like bayer, monsanto, dupont, wall st and all the rest! We had better wise up and put these guys out of business before they kill everything and everyone
@Jake Roberts And another Dupont heir shot an Olympic wrestler. Funny, is it not? how the so-called "rich" and "powerful" fall. Sin has consequences.
Their greed and love-of-money destroys them, in the end.
@Jake Roberts Seems a lot of people cannot risk to see the truth because it is quite dismal.
Since everyone has the c8 chemicals in their blood stream; the whole world should sue DuPont in to oblivion
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It's not in 'the whole world' - Americans always think everyone else follows and allows their crazy corporations into their countries... they don't. That's the only thing I wish they would stop saying because it makes it sound like it's bigger than it is. It's in AMERICA and Dupont is in WHITE MAJORITY COUNTRIES but not so in Africa. They think we can't afford it which is a good thing because we make our own cast iron pots and pans and have our own industries.
@@SenegalStyleSinetaGeorge well good for you
Fun fact: DDT is no longer legal to use in the US....But, it can still be manufactured and exported to countries that do. What a world.
The fact that the CEOs have not been arrested and the company is STILL allowed to even run and test out another new chemical???
If you see the difficulties holding criminally reckless companies accountable for poisoning innocent bystanders now - imagine - trump is busily stacking the courts to defend criminally negligent companies from lawsuits and criminal charges as i write.
Jamez Charlez the fact that you said this 10 months ago...
I wantAvote yes, trump was on point while he debated Hilary Clinton, but he has since sold out the American people
The new American dream is clean water.
Medicines are also chemicals. Read a book occasionally.
This is why I used cast iron. Made back in the 1920's and still work like a champ.
Same here, excepts I have the pans of evil~which I will, from this moment, never use again.
I suspect Xylitol use may help heal the damage. Xylitol, a natural sugar-alcohol (doesn't make you drunk) heals the body. It heals and cleans my sinus membranes (snort it up the nasal passages whilst bending over the bathtub, hand on backside of tub, skull cap facing down tub) which cleans phlegm from all the head-orifices. Use an eye cup with xylitol and salt to wash the eyes. Research it!
I follow my O Blood type died, ruthlessly.
Namaste and care to all fellow beings.
Also, when I went to a dentist to have all my mercury fillings drilled out six years ago, the dentist took one look at my facial X-ray and exclaimed, "You have extremely strong bones"!!! He kept repeating this over and over through the examination...
When I returned the next day for the jobs to be done I asked him if he had meant "strong bones" for my age: I was sixty-four, as the song goes. He barked back, "No! For any age!" He had never seen a patient before with such strong bones.
How could a retired, lazy 64 year old layabout have stronger bonds than athletes? Borax could wipe out much of the dental industry if word got round. Imagine a new generation of children with perfect teeth, incredibly strong bones and who never got flues or colds.
N/C
@War.is.a. Racket That's fine except boron tablets are minuscule in boron compared to a tsp of borax. Check out 'The Borax Conspiracy' by naturopath Walter Last for details.
Now I need to go find out what we're doing with laundry detergent.
I am Canadian but LODGE cookware is so awesome. I also have another CI pan made by MYERS I think...also very good quality.
Bucky should sue DuPont based on the levels of C8 in his body now that it has been deemed so harmful. He deserves some kind of compensation.
And as for Mr. Tenant, the farmer, he was brilliant in using the attorney's grandmother as an in.
These corporations should be put in prison for negligent homicide, considering that they're legally people now. Why are they not ultimately held responsible for their actions as actual people are?
Bucky has been paid. Watch the movie
Yes, I like the grandmother approach.
Why can't we hold the EPA accountable? Aren't they supposed to protect us? What do they do?
Fleur Bandito Paid off its the money that's the evil. If EPA COULD GET MORE FUNDING AND THE CORPORATE COMPANIES WHERE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
They cow down to Trump.
Fleur Bandito NO PROTECTION FOR WE THE PEOPLE UNDER THE DUMP ADMINISTRATION ☝️🤡💩🥕🤥🥜🌺
Good question.
The EPA was meant to protect u but look who is in charge of the EPA. The EPA needs to be empowered not stripped of power every day. This is why u are fed poison
I grew up downriver from this plant in a town called Pomeroy, Ohio. I have autoimmune disease and infertility. I hate DuPont with the fire of a thousand suns. I don't know if there is any way to prove that I was poisoned by DuPont but I don't see how it would have been avoided. Pomeroy's water supply was directly from the Ohio River.
Sequoia Ananda you have a case
My uncle passed from a aggressive cancer from working with the chemicals at DuPont in Ohio as well. My cousin tried to email the attorneys involved in these cases and they were interested in helping us. Maybe do the same? Google info on the DuPont lawsuits and get all the attorneys name including rob bilott. Hope this helps and hope you get the justice you deserve!
Get your blood tested
What autoimmune disease do you have? I’m curious to know as my sister has been struggling with an autoimmune disease for a few years
This legitimately horrifying
In the early 60s I was Regional Sales Manager for the leading manufacturer of ultrasonic vapor degreasers used to clean electronics and other small, expensive products. My HQ was in Boston and the territory included MA, RI, VT, NH and ME. At that time, the area contained some of the most active companies in making computer, jewelry, screws and fasteners and ball bearings. The higher tech market was just learning to use liquid Freon 12 because it had many desirable physical properties as an inert solvent that worked well win an ultrasonic environment.
As part of my training, I was sent to Dupont HQ in Wilmington, DE to become knowledgeable in the pros and cons (or at least that what I was supposed to learn). I had already been well-trained and had a lot of experience with the more common cleaning solvents such as Trichlor and Perc. At that time, there were also "fire extinguishers" about the size of a baseball, in the form of a glass sphere full of Carbon Tetrachloride, that could be thrown at the base of a fire. They were common in garages and machine shops and would sit in a ring fixture on the wall near a likely fire hazard. The heavy, non-flammable fumes were intended to smother the fire.
I was already well aware of the dangers of virtually all solvents despite the pooh-poohing of my boss at the equipment company. I took the advice of my father who, at that time was the Chief Plant Engineer for Colgates, a wise and learned man. He educated me in the sneaky dangers of solvents while teaching me how to take apart and repair the Ford 1937 V-8 Two-door Sedan he sold me when I turned 17 in 1950, and I learned to avoid contact with those chemicals as much as possible.
When I got to Dupont for the training I was not surprised about the lies that were told to my face by the very engineers who were the developers of the entire family of fluorocarbon materials that included all Freons and its solid version Teflon.
The most shocking lie told was an outrageous demonstration the very first morning of the 3-day course. There were maybe ten of us from various companies across the country as well as Canada and Mexico. After describing how inert Freon 12 was (is??). a soup bowl was put on the desk and Freon 12 was poured in to it. A box of plain donuts was produced.
They were demonstrating "how safe Freon is" as well as its rapid evaporation. As the demonstarter recited all the technical information (boiling temp, density of the gas, stability, etc, ) he dipped a donut in the solvent so about 1/3rd of it was soaked and appropriately darkened. As he spoke, he casually waved the wet donut in the air. Due to Freon 12's unique properties of volatility, etc, the donut quickly dried and returned to its original color.
Then he ate the donut.
He invited each of us repeat what he had done, dip a donut, wave it til dry and then eat it to demonstrate that there was no taste of solvent in the donut. I declined. I had the perfect excuse which I made very clear, despite increasing pressure to conform. In my early teens I had hepatitis. I was warned that I had would have a damaged and compromised liver for the rest of my life. I was never to drink alcohol. I lied and said that the warning was I was never to drink alcohol and I must avoid physical contact with solvents
They persisted and I became stubborn. They pressed. ("oh, just try it, it won't kill you. it's harmless. You have to do it in order to pass the class. you will use this demonstration for your customers") . This was back in the innocent days when corporations were trusted like churches. But my father's quiet advice kept running in my head. Eventually, they said they would have to inform my company of my refusal. If they did, nothing ever came of it.
When I configured and sold and serviced my company's systems I went out of my way to make sure the operator understood that contact with the solvents was to be avoided. No taking it home to use around the house. I made very clear the design features of the machine included avoidance of contact.
I stayed with the company another two years but became increasingly aware of anecdotes I was hearing of operator's mysterious sickness. A Swedish-based competitor began selling a closed machine that included recycling systems to totally prevent any escape of vapor. They sold it as a necessity for operator health - and they were very convincing. I was glad to accept a better job in a less controversial and safer business. And, of course, not long after that, the entire industry was sued into bankruptcy.
But Dupont's evilness has always stayed with me. They knew what they were doing. They knew the harm. And they did it anyway. They were just another version of the tobacco industry.
Thank you for sharing this.
Your experience and expertise really helped me to understand the Dupont case with a bit of context and chemical engineering knowledge.
I hope you do not get tired of explaining this.
I'm part of the generation that has suffered.
Like Bucky Bailey.
I was born with deformity and malfunction, like him but not nearly as severe.
I want solvents, paints, foods, and all materials to be more natural. At least less toxic.
Thanks.
Hi Joe! My last name is Harkins too and I live in MA. So glad you left that dangerous place and stuck to your guns. I just found out that I grew up literally next to a EPA Super Fund site, a old textile mill and dyehouse with carbonizer lagoons that was forced to shut down due to poisoning the groundwater but they left everything there including piles of asbestos etc. I'm convinced this is where my autoimmune issues, high cholesterol and hormone issues since high school, and learning disabilities and was almost put in Special Ed (this was while living there ). They also never notifed the residents and I just contacted a lawyer. I've been researching like crazy and the corruption is obvious as they have kept test results on ice due to 'a buyer falling through so no need' even though residents still tried to get it. So far what was disclosed prior to added testing yet to be revealed is: PCB's, TPH's, PAH's, dioxins, hexavalent chromium, pesticides, lead, arsenic, 2 methylnapthalene, petroleum hydrocarbons, high amounts of silica etc . I have about 500 pages of letters, documents, and partial test results to get through 😅 but I am very tenacious so I'm ready to take this on. I wonder can you also sue the state of MA? Because I have no clue how much money those descendents have by this point and I would like to extend this to other plaintiffs who may be struggling in the community
@@suzanneharkins5371 Thanks for the contact. I really don't know what to suggest as you go forward, I think if you keep documenting the situation and keep records of every contact and piece of information, that will serve you well.
BTW - do you have any information about your paternal grandparents and great-grand? I'm aware there is a branch of generation of Harkins in CT and ME.
@@suzanneharkins5371 I did write a response but I don't know why it isn't here a day later. Sorry I can't be much help in your struggle. I can only suggest that you be meticulous and diligent in keeping records of every contact and document and reference.
As for our shared name, I only lived in Boston (actually Watertown and Cambridge) for just under 3 years. But I had 8 uncles and aunts from the family roots in New Jersey and I know that we go back even further in Pennsylvania. Do you know your paternal grandfather and great-grandfather's names?
@@JoeHarkinsHimself Yes! it's tricky because the state was going to fine them recently for noncompliance but they submitted a 'financial inability to pay' so not sure who to hold responsible at this stage of things, its highly complex lol i've got lots of highlighting.
Oh gotcha! My grandfather was Frances Harkins out of Brookline
The local Govt officials that chose to do nothing in this man's town should all be indicted and sent to jail . These criminal, spineless cowards sicken me...
you bet sir 100percent cheaper modern materials suspect
Thank God for Wilbert, he really documented the reality of this.
I grew up in Wilmington De in 1970' s and early 80's. This is a political story of corruption. I was the next door neighbor of US Senator William V Roth and by chance Joe Biden moved in across the road in 1969. What are the odds? But the real story is what committees Bill was on (I worked for Bill & Jane and they were very good to me, very). And who Jane Richards Roth really is a direct- heiress to the Dupont Fortune, yes direct. Her grandfather 8 times removed founded Dupont. Bill was a very power Senator by the 1990's. Bill was co-chair of the environment committee.
Even if you went to Auburn you can put the dots together.
By the way how much does Joe Biden get each year from the US Tobacco settlement?
This is not left and right it's good vs. evil
Ed
A criminal investigation of the CEO of DuPont was dropped in 2006.
We can go back to Plum Island NY 1992 a decontamination site restricted from public use.
Further back to Love Canal NY 1978 a decontamination site restricted from public use.
Forty years of the same pattern of corporate activity I would expect the worst is to follow.
corporations are designed with legal immunity and that is the main reasons they easily commit these horrific criminal acts and CEO's generally get the same protection too
Who else is here because of the move Dark Waters?
I am
Not me ,sadly new this story before the movie.
I have m.s. always thought it was from the water there.
The documentary “The Devil We Know” is the real story
@@josephskuse9115 yup...
OMG! No wonder I am riddled with so many physical disorders. I can remember having Teflon pans that had chips of Teflon coming off of them. I stopped using them, when the warning came out, but I used them for years with no inkling of what those Teflon chips were doing to me and my family. Added to the Teflon pans we used many of the other products listed. What's worse, is we know this poisoning is still going on. Many times these huge companies simply change a molecule to get around regulations on toxic materials.
Betty Schueler I have chipped ones in my kitchen right now. I have fibromyalgia, chronic pain, etc. My mental health could be better, too. Now I hear most of the US water has uranium in it. And I'm in one of the places. How do they sleep at night?
Betty Schueler Absolutely! Just heating the pan releases the harmful chemicals.
I had a wonderful pet cockateil for over 21 years, and I remember being warned not to use Teflon coated pans near the bird, as it could kill him. That's literally the "canary" in the coal mine. First warning that the stuff is dangerous.
And how much Scotchguard have we been exposed to?
I have an early onset autoimmune arthritis so severe that I have 4 pins and a removed joint in my shoulder, and need 2 urgent surgeries on my spine to prevent paralysis. I also have chronic Epstein-Barr virus and SEID (Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease.)
I wonder how many toxins I carry around. I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma when it was an even bigger oil town, and I remember when the wind would blow from the west, the most common direction, the nearby oil refineries would blanket the city in the overwhelming smell of gasoline.
That was in my most formative years. Gas fumes are proven carcinogens.
Strangely, that poisonous smell still brings back fond memories of my happy childhood.
How fucked up is that?
Paul Berevoescu I'm sorry about your illness. I also have many autoimmune conditions. See my comment in this thread.
Betty Schueler And yes, they changed a molecule in C8 to throw authorities off the scent, as described by the attorney.
Dupont, Monsatan's evil twin.
Now Bayer.
Lol gmo’s aren’t bad do your research
As a reminder, Monsanto is the company that gave us DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, Dioxin, and most recently, Glysophate (Roundup), which has been linked to cancer, specifically Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, as well as making weeds it's supposed to kill resistant and more virulent. Suppressing and manipulating studies and papers, even ghost writing some, to get the findings they want on their herbicides/pesticides, and of course, bribing politicians and governments to look the other way while it sickens people and pollutes the environment has been the practice of Monsanto for well over one hundred years.
Well said bigdaz .
@@hqhqgalfvailhfuoabhfvajghv6068 Jack's off today-
I have worked there off and on for a contractor for the last twenty-some years and I remember before all the legal issues started, there was a building in the Teflon department that had a small type of vent on the roof and if you were outside, you could visibly see sudsy like substances floating from the vent through the air and the same building had signs on the doors that read something like "individuals may not be in this building more than 15 minutes a day", but when the legal issues started, the signs disappeared.
Geee I wonder why we all have cancer???
Its all chemical society , i guess we want materials , its made all of chemicals ,,life is a big risk
I've seen this in a Sci-fi Movie... But USA have a history of Creating Environment & doing Research on them, (Tuskegee Experiment)... VA Hospitals can overdose w/drugs & over x-ray a Vet. & say, "We have no Idea why you are sick..." Citizen are treated as guinea pigs... & the Top don't care if they cause Chaos & Despair. Love Self, Protect Life, Breathe Happy, Peace...!!!
Pitchforks??
Eduaro Orama Del Pilar Actually, much of life us very quiet but we allow psychopaths in these corporations to lie, bribe governments and actually promote thier prooaganda, "corporations are people too."
The only reason we have the protections we do now is due to activsts. If it was left up to corrupt government offcials and large multinationals, we would be nothing but walking poison, more than we are now.
It's not hard to be healthy and have a healthy environment. Many of you are conditioned to believe that modernization comes with toxic products, which is not true. We choose to let companies get away with being negligent. And, when a caring activist/s points out the corruption, people actually attack them.
The same contamation is taking place in the oil industry but when activists try to bring attention to the problem, many of you support the entity poisoning your children. Our prioities are screwed up.
NOW add to that the cancer-causing soap, heat it up on high n you have a CANCER TIME BOMB. remember DUPONT changed its name to MONSANTO? they make the soap too. i've been warning everybody about this since they pushed teflon on ppl but most ppl just think i'm NUTZ.
Typical corporate behavior; bury the problem in money without any admission of wrongdoing and a gag order on plaintiffs. #disgusting
i switched to stainless steel pan after watching this.
Decades ago I switched from the aluminum pans which my Mom had used,
to stainless steel and glass pots.....
bought a water distiller, and went organic if I could find it.....the problem is you can try and do the best you can to escape the pollution
problem, but you can't escape what
these companies and industries and our own government have already
done to this planet and the very air
that we breathe.....and they find
microplastics in everything, including us, and electromagnetic radiation bombarding our bodies and especially our brains. I am relieved that I didn't have children to suffer what is coming with the climate crisis. I suffer enougb for our biosphere and our fellow earthlings
that have done nothing to deserve
this dying earth we are leaving them....that is the ones that haven't
already gone extinct.
Oh my god and Trump just loosened environmental regulations for corporate polluters! Just imagine what our natural ecosystems are going to look like in a few years.
MarcoPolo1299 Government didn't stop this.
@Charlie Kelly - ya, if we stop using DuPont products the environment will just stop being toxic, right?
Youre full of crap
The epa let it continue and only fined them 16 million when they were selling 24 billion worth of product yearly.
They forced dupont to change chemicals used and allowed them to continue operation after poisoning the entire world.
The new chemical they use is worse than c-8 and is now called gen-x and is in mass production and still being pumped into water.
The ceo’s and chiefs of staff were not charged criminally and currently are free men. They have knowingly contaminated the world and have caused countless deaths that were slow, cancerous, and painful.
This was issued by the epa. The Supposed keeper of our environment. This is corrupt beyond recognition.
The government was never looking out for you. Don’t fall for the two party politic game and think for yourself for once.
fat rip to the earth :(
Dupont , truly terrible company
And where there's Dupont, Monsanto can't be far behind.
If you think this is limited to just DuPont then you are not aware that most companies would pollute or kill people if there was lots of money to be made. It's the way the company structure is set up. The shareholders and owners just want money and the workers just do their job. The people at the top just hide the problems because they have a monetary interest and their livelihood depends on it. The whole system us driven towards making money at every level.
now their name is MONTSANTO
Eduardo Orama Del Pilar Great name and great pic.
And yes, these people should serve prison sentences for knowingly poisoning people and animals and lying about it!
Steven DuVall , agree mr steven duvall ,its truly terrible
Thanks DuPont and every Corporation that does this kind of shit.
Just one of many examples that prove "human greed has no bounds". Let the buyer beware.
My dad worked for a DuPont paint factory in Moberly Mo. for 15 years. John Hopkins research came in and done a study and some test. When the test results came back they shut the plant down. That was around 91 or 92. Since then several formal employees have had some form of cancer including my dad and several have passed away from massive heart attack’s. Nobody know what the test was about or what the results were.
This is a perfect example of why we should have Medicare for all. Tax the hell out of these companies and hold them accountable. If our government allows this then they should pay for everyone's healthcare.
All the government is supposed to do is, protect our freedom, thats all.
thats the reason why there is no medicare for everybody ... 99% of humanity has c8 in his body
all for money
I'm here because of Dark waters. My respect to those brave man who fought against a colossus and prevailed... We need a lot more people like them, I need to be more like them...
Thank you for stopping the monster. I worked on the Teflon money making machine, never smoked cigarettes and a competitive collegiate athlete. 3-4 years at DuPont and it destroyed my thyroid gland, I started working there in July, 1981,same year pregnant women secret studies started in Teflon.
Dupont was also one of the main players in getting hemp banned, so that they wouldn't have competition with their toxic chemicals.
The amazing thing is people are asking why cancer rates are constantly rising worldwide, what are all the other companies keeping quiet about in the name of greed
I grew up in South Parkersburg, and worked as a contractor at that plant in 1973. My brother lived in Washington WV about 2 miles from the plant in the mid 1970s. He was diagnosed with thyroid cancer around 2016, and died last year from renal cancer. For an eye opener, research the cancer rates for people who drank the water around Lubeck and Washington areas, along what was then Dupont Road. The whole area around Parkersburg is basically a sacrifice zone. If you wanted a well paying job at one of the many Chemical plants in the area, you kept your mouth shut. Otherwise, you moved - like I did over 40 years ago.
In the '70's I delivered bulk product on a petro-chemical tanker to Dupont in Deepwater, NJ. There were open ditches of blue chemicals draining into the Delaware River. We wren't supposed to see this but we did.
I am trying to gather more info about DuPont because my uncle worked there for many years until they closed and my uncle is now getting ready to pass because of aggressive cancer from the chemicals he worked with. Please warn others who are in possible danger through these companies. Thank you for the video
They are truly evil..this world is sick
All evil on Earth will disappear when the last human dies.
Thankfully, Jesus will soon return and make a New Earth which is free from all sickness, sin, disease, and "love" of money.
these companies are world wide. imagine how they act abroad where there are zero regulations
Your ignorance is showing. There are much higher standards in most countries "abroad".
There imported read keep reading.on the selves at your local Wal-Mart Fry's Safeway many more.
@@carltaylor4942 i am sure they have facilities in some poor bumfuckistan. US corporations are welcome everywhere to spoil environment and kill people, if the country's leader is hesitating, it is to be found out that actually they were socialist (dangerous!!!) regime who shared their resources with their people for free (communism!!!) and flipped a bird to ronald mcdonald (terrorism!!) and said that Donald Trump is stupid (blasphemy!!!!) and he sucks and thus CIA implemented a coup, i mean observed peaceful regime change to right-wing military junta, led by moustachioned colonel who happens to love usa and begs Exxon etc. to please enjoy their natural resources, just have your way with it, nothing is off the limits, maybe offering safaris for younger trumps to shoot local natives. those poor dudes have killed almost every animal there is and that is just heart-breaking, how can they go on if they can not murder new and exotic living, feeling things at least twice a month, those poor boys
The initial part of documentary was quite scary when the farmer who bought that piece of land downstream from the plant and was discovering all these horrendous cadavers on the stream and was making videos about it, I mean he doesn't have anyone there but his animals to talk to "What do you think that is?", "What is that thing ?", "Some sort of morphed creature". It actually scared me. Good work on recording those events. And good work on this documentary especially. Yeah, get it out there.
Oh my god , everyone is lying
U say it as if u are surprised
Eduardo Orama Del Pilar it's all about the money baby. These people don't give a shit about people they are just a way to get more money.
Sherlock
@@Antman4656 Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
When "Silent Spring" came out I read it. Best read ever.
yea let's deregulate more restrictions on companies ! dupont reptiles u should force fed these chemicals ! your company should tried for crimes against humanity !
Do you NOT understand that the regulators don't regulate?
"The love of money is the root of all evil."
Christians and atheists alike should take note of this
From Kingston Ontario, Du Pont has a massive plant here that sits off the waters side. Makes sense why ive always been so sick, drinking tap water for so long no wonder we see early deaths.
Dude boil and get a filter. Stop playing Russian roulette.
Dupont is the prime example of how American Corporations profit from crime, and pass the real costs onto consumers
I got rid of all of my Teflon pans and products three years ago and many of my body aches and pains went out with them.
Unfortunately, all disposed of teflon products goes into landfills, further contaminating unsuspecting water acquifers.... and our fellow human beings. God forgive us all.
Farmer Tennant was a gutsy guy- thanks to him for making a stink about it and collecting evidence. R.I.P.
They monitored Bucky's mom so closely because she was a guinea pig for something specific
@@johntore6108 anti-semitism is 100% unnecessary and also harmful to you as it makes you look like a lunatic
Wanted to see what would happen so they could cover their asses.
Epa needs to be stronger
SRU DEDMAN they're the fuckers who were supposed to stop this.
They are supposed to stop it and there is some corruption as well as underfunding and legal obstacles. Trump is making a bad situation worse.
SRU DEDMAN epa needs to be in/un corruptible
No! Hell no! They are the EPA!
The EPA only exists to crush small businesses before they threaten big corporations. They never deal the big guys a death blow, it's always just a show to make the EPA look like it's doing something. Do you think a million dollar fine hurts Exxon, DuPont, or Dow ?
Dark waters trailer brought me here. Thank you for shedding light to this tragedy to human kind.
Wasn't there a movie done based on this town's battling DuPont? I think it came out last year. Bucky should be receiving some type of compensation from DuPont for the rest of his life.
Dark waters
Just TOMORROW (23rd of Januari 2020) the docu-film "Blackwater" - about the DuPont/Chemours situation - will be having its premiere in The Netherlands... in the city DORDRECHT, Thé Dutch city mr. Rob Bilott is referring to where GenEx is produced and giving lots of 'turmoil' in that area with much more cities. As a matter of fact... The river which runs alongside the DuPont/Chemours-site brings its poluted water to an even bigger city, portcity Rotterdam. After Rotterdam there is the North-Sea. Before coming into the sea more cities heve been passed by already many years flowing 'industrial polluted-water' alsó polluted by ...
'Some' turmoil and discussions will reveal soon, as far is not already started...!!
I'm here because of dark waters😔
My Dad worked for 3M Company at their Freehold, NJ plant circa 1973 1986. He suffered a plethora of physical and mental health issues till the day he died Christmas Day 1986.
You made one of my playlists with this one.
I knew you had it.
Good stuff.👍
Bucky Bailey is amazing
Damn Dupont! Back at it again with the killing.
Again!?
It's all money!!!
I HATE DUPONT AND MONSATO!!!!!
virgen virgen me took😡
Gmo’s aren’t bad ffs do your research
@@hqhqgalfvailhfuoabhfvajghv6068 "Monsanto is the company that gave us DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, Dioxin, and most recently, Glysophate (Roundup), which has been linked to cancer, specifically Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, as well as making weeds it's supposed to kill resistant and more virulent. Suppressing and manipulating studies and papers, even ghost writing some, to get the findings they want on their herbicides/pesticides, and of course, bribing politicians and governments to look the other way while it sickens people and pollutes the environment has been the practice of Monsanto for well over one hundred years."
*Do YOUR research.*
@@remo687 Monsanto Roundup caused me to have cancer at 3 in 2002. I beat it at 4, now I'm healthy, but look at all me and millions of other children had to go through. It's disgusting these companies only care about money! I hate them with a passion. We aren't lab rats!
BURN EM DOWN.!!💥🎯
This is what happens when you do not have federal rules and regulations monitoring companies like DuPont. And to think we have people who want to do away with the EPA. The 3M company was also complicit in this poisoning.
This is proof positive why we need the EPA and EPA admins who enforce regs which is not what we have now in DC.
No matter where they move this company or this product in China or whatever is a keep polluted everything
I can't believe I HAVE been poisoned, yet I'm totally healthy. This world is scary! 😢😳😵
Thank You to the WV Farmer & to this Attorney for Standing up to Dupont on behalf of the people living in Wv
Shame on Dupont for Poisoning myself and thousands of others due to your Blatant disregard to Human Life
Dupont chose Profits over animals, and human lives
I got Thyroid Disease from drinking tap water filled with Duponts chemicals
Every year my Thyroid Disease has been getting progressively worse
I'm here because of Darkwaters, I went through 3 out of my 4 years Union Millwrights Local Union#1755, Parkersburg WV Apprenticeship program.I got hypothyroidism after a 4 months rebuild of the Teflon division.
How many people have died since then
Not to mention thyroid disease and cancer. But, pull yo'selves up by your goddamn boot straps lazy liberals!
mai&BB 4life Lmao, good sarcasm.
Eduardo Orama Del Pilar tens of thousands, I would imagine.
Read the book Exposure by Robert Bilott. It is the complete story.
Miss Moran,may RKGOD richly bless and increase that attorney,Bilott.
I've always suspected Teflon, and never used anything coated with it. But I'm probably still contaminated. Until a couple of years ago I was filtering my drinking water with a Brita system - then learnt that it INCREASES lead levels. I've changed to Zero Water now, and recommend the same to everyone else. The pretty stark truth this faces us with, is that the entire political and economic scene is the product of companies which, like DuPont, have as their principal focus making the most money possible by taking shortcuts. Cover-ups are a standard procedure at every level, with corporate representation predominant in government. This is why Bernie Sanders is seen as such a big threat: he has too much personal integrity to take part in their games of deception.
Everyone is after Monsanto...maybe we should go after Dupont...I'm throwing out my teflon and I will never buy it AGAIN!I use antique cast iron..I recommend everyone who reads it should also use it...you actually need Iron in your blood!
I had a hard time seeing the fish having convulsions and probably suffering horribly. how are they still in business and not facing CRIMINAL charges???
I'm always amazed when folks are more upset about fish dying than people...
@@SenegalStyleSinetaGeorge fish aren’t evil. some people are!
videos like these need to be spread to the furthest corners of the earth
I live in Parkersburg, my dad works at Chemours, and my mom worked at Dupont from the late nineties to 2004 or so. I’ve grown up with this right under my nose. Insane.
you dont often hear this but that lawyer is a real HERO thank you on behalf of the world
Fun fact Dupont never stopped they created a sister company and changed one small thing about how the chemical is made then they registered it under a different name and started production again in the same factories
Chemours, there is one right down the road from me
These corporations will never stop until there is very large change in this country . You cannot fine them 20 million dollars when they made 2 billion . The CEOs must go to prison for years .
You talk about Teflon but the DuPont history is a short trip to worldwide poisoning. They built the Hanford facility that had been leaking for decades and infected all around, it is also DuPont that provided half the powders for bombs in WWi and seventy percent in WWII , that is only a part of their business, but in a nutshell the chemistry company DuPont is worth Monsanto if not worst, and their business is done on death, nothing else. All they do is totally toxic, known to be toxic, and long lasting pollution, and that's it, nothing else. And the worst is that in the end they themselves breath it all, since pollution doesn't stop at the door of the low class. Molecules go everywhere.
I don't know how I missed this 2years ago, but do so appreciate that it showed up on my feed today. Thanks, Amy Goodman, for filling in some important pieces of the puzzle. The choice to deceive will come back to them with a vengeance. And just last week I was inspired when I listened to Bucky's story. I am following along as this corporation is held accountable.
imagine if #hemp was used instead? like ford did for a car body...
Hemp is an industrial fiber, it's used to increase strength just like the fibers you see sticking out of broken fiberglass. Hemp isn't a non stick coating
Marijuana is the cure-sll and fix-all, the panacea?
Mary Poppins lmao I see where you’re going it’s very helpful but I believe it’s just a lot more safer alternatives to use then creating some lab made bullshit
Imagine if DuPont hadn't set Harry Anslinger on the task of eradicating hemp worldwide way back in the 1920's..
@@cindytepper8878 The oils and bast inside the plant can be used to make anything that can be made from crude oil and coal. The fibres can make the most durable rope and cloth that don't require such things as Scotchguard .
And THIS is why I’ve always been a cast iron kind of guy!
Another example of why I go old school.
I'll be sharing this, thanks
"Im getting verklempt... talk amongst yourselves... here, lemme give you a topic -- Nothing sticks to Teflon, but Teflon sticks to the pan. Discuss." -SNL, Coffee Talk w/Linda Richman
Huh, and I thought the Government was supposed to protect us from this stuff. Shows you how effective they are.
When will the CEO's finally have to pay for this out of their own pockets?
Why does government allow this,
in the afterlife?
Why do we buy their shit?
I am AMAZED that companies and people who managed the company at the time haven't been beheaded for this.
Same happened in the Netherlands. They have been lying all the time and braking rules and regulations on a regular basis.
This way the toxic came in the water half the country is drinking. I’m lucky I live near the coast and we get dune water.
It never went as bad as in the US because off frequent inspections but till this day they are keeping to disregard safety and regulations
58 DuPont employees and stockholders watched this video.
People we need change of infrastructure.... we the people of all walks of life voice the same language for communication with that .....stand up speak up for Humanity...... it's time!!!!!..... peace..... silent prayer
I never used these pans, Iron pans are the way to go, always.
But it’s in dental floss? WTF?! How do I find a list of all the things I need to avoid? And where do I see this movie?
Thanks to all the participants and producers.
As a conservative Republican, I have not yet come to agreement on anything I've watched on your channel. But I continue to watch just to keep things real for myself. Given that, I gotta say, this Dupont expose is very well done. You did good! Congratulations!! I will continue to watch you.
And nothing happens to CEO? The entire board and CEO should have been given life-time prison at-least. Just like Boeing, this is another corporation. running lives.
what does Boeing do?
I kept birds in the eighties. I picked up a magazine one day, which warned to not use any Teflon cookware in the house because it would kill the birds. So I’ve never used it.
We have had a company set up shop in our town. One of the products it uses is teflon coating on ship parts to avoid rusting. It’s in North Sydney, NS, Canada.
Nasty stuff.
whats more concerning is, almost everyone has this crap running through their veins right now
I've been cooking with non stick pans for years
I just bought stainless steel pans, my god, I feel sick to my stomach, I put these chemicals into my body
Watched dark waters and they settled for 670 million and no one ended up in jail
That's pocket change to DuPont what a fucking joke !!
The USA has the best government that money can buy.
Rupert Giles fck you pos!
Two things I hate more than anything: corporate greed and political corruption
I was told by Belgian visitors to my town in 1970 not to use non stick frying pans as they caused cancer.
My town was Bootle in Merseyside, twinned with Mons.