This Is Your Farm on Forever Chemicals

About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of PFAS chemicals on agriculture and how communities are responding to mitigate their effects.

In this episode of Unconfined, author Mariah Blake and former organic farmer Adam Nordell tell the dark tale of how the highly toxic, long-lived class of chemicals called PFAS made their way from governme nt labs to corporate factories to a farm near you—and the happier story of how ordinary people are organizing to minimize the harm from this mess.

People in this episode

Guests: Mariah Blake, Adam Nordell

Topics covered

• PFAS
• agriculture
• environmental health
• toxic chemicals
• community organizing

Keywords

• PFAS
• chemicals
• farming
• toxic
• environment
• organizing
• health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

Products: PFAS

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