Toxic Easter eggs

The Dutch government recommends that people not eat eggs from backyard chickens:

RIVM scientists assessed the PFAS content in eggs from 60 different locations across the country and found that eggs from 31 of them contained so much PFAS that eating less than one egg a week would exceed official limits. At a further 10 locations, people could eat at most one egg per week without exceeding the limit.

This was buried in the news but should be making headlines. We could slowly be getting to the point where much of the earth is too toxic to produce food safely.

I think this also demonstrates why the environmental movement has made a huge mistake by becoming almost singularly focused on carbon emissions. They are abstract, absolutely necessary to sustain the world’s population for now, and the effect is going to largely beyond our lifetimes. Instead, focusing on toxic chemicals, microplastics, and other things in the here and now is a far easier sell for the environmental movement and far less wrapped up in partisan politics.