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What could I talk about for 30 minutes with no prep:
- Michigan's PBB Crisis
- Voting Rights
- Gerrymandering
- Detroit/Suburban Divide History
- How Awesome Are Rabbits!
- Michigan's 2018 Lame Duck Session
- Newsradio
- Public Trust Doctrine
- How Awesome Are The Great Lakes! https://twitter.com/JoshuaBHoe/status/1126675334039048192
- Michigan's PBB Crisis
- Voting Rights
- Gerrymandering
- Detroit/Suburban Divide History
- How Awesome Are Rabbits!
- Michigan's 2018 Lame Duck Session
- Newsradio
- Public Trust Doctrine
- How Awesome Are The Great Lakes! https://twitter.com/JoshuaBHoe/status/1126675334039048192
#1 is #1 for a reason. If you're a millennial or younger, even born/raised in Michigan, you probably don't know about when basically every single non vegan in the lower peninsula was exposed to a dangerous chemical. I know I didn't.
So I'll tell you. https://undark.org/article/pbb-michigan-epigenetics/
So I'll tell you. https://undark.org/article/pbb-michigan-epigenetics/
Short version:
Bags of flame retardant looked like bags of cattle feed additive. Cows started dying horrifically. Authorities dragged feet. Few decent folks fought to figure out wtf was going on. Into food supply. Everyone exposed.
Learn from history. https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2019/03/20/pbb-crisis-pfas-lead-flint-michigan-water-contamination-st-louis-poisoning-of-michigan/3161381002/
Bags of flame retardant looked like bags of cattle feed additive. Cows started dying horrifically. Authorities dragged feet. Few decent folks fought to figure out wtf was going on. Into food supply. Everyone exposed.
Learn from history. https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2019/03/20/pbb-crisis-pfas-lead-flint-michigan-water-contamination-st-louis-poisoning-of-michigan/3161381002/
The company responsible for the mix-up left a Superfund site behind in St Louis MI. Unrelated to this f--k up, just an extra layer of hell.
PBB levels in MI are still high - and it passed to children.
We need to learn from this. We obviously haven't. https://www.mlive.com/news/2016/05/velsicol_superfund_st_louis_pb.html
PBB levels in MI are still high - and it passed to children.
We need to learn from this. We obviously haven't. https://www.mlive.com/news/2016/05/velsicol_superfund_st_louis_pb.html
Ron Howard made a movie about it (Bitter Harvest). The book The Poisoning of Michigan is a more definitive history, but movie was pretty accurate other than names changed.
Couldn't find this full doc. The trailer is enough though. Dead animal warning.
Couldn't find this full doc. The trailer is enough though. Dead animal warning.
Eek. 
