There was a chemical spill into a tributary of the Delaware River possibly affecting the Philadelphia water system. Over 2 million people have been advised to drink only bottled water. As far as I know, they have not issued advisories as to other uses of the municipal water. I think butyl acrylate was the chemical spilled --15,000 gallon suspected. I don't know the source. Stores are out of bottled water but water is now being tanked in.
Hard to believe we allow such toxic chemicals to be moved on our waterways. Pipelines have always been safer and has a much safer record. I had two family members who worked for Mission Coating Houston back in the late 50s and 60s. They were already preparing the tubing to be wrapped and rot proof that long ago. In the early 70s late 60s the railroad was busy taking up all the old cotton tracks all over America as the gins all slowly shut down. They reused most of the rail but a lot of that might have been used to move this dangerous stuff since most of it was out of the large population centers.
I have suspect cyber warfare for some time, but nobody wants to tell us about it as it is much more comfortable to believe we can confront Russia, China and Iran without any consequences at home. These are "accidents". We are no longer playing in the realm of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now the "preppers" in Philly are sitting at home while the "normal" people are fighting to find drinking water. The government says it is okay to drink the water "for now", but most do not believe the press release.
All those democrat representatives should be the water tasters until it is all resolved or deemed safe. Now that joe found out he could just throw out billions like on the contaminated water of Camp LeJune next thing is throwing out a few more billion at his supporters at home. If most of us knew what we drink each day none of us would ever drink processed water again. Living here I have seen the water turn into straight up mud !. I called our little city hall and told her they should shut down the water and find out what is wrong and they were actually going to leave it like that. They were so cheap they had not wanted to run off the rubbish after doing some service work so it all gathered in the line and the entire area had filthy water. Contaminated is one thing but actually liquid mud is another, kinda hard to boil mud.
This might seem off-topic but I look at artificial meats as a type of chemical spill. FDA Approves the First-Ever Lab-Grown Meat Product By The Daily Upside – Nov 17, 2022 at 8:00PM Like all presidents, Joe Biden will pardon two turkeys next week, but thanks to a major scientific breakthrough, soon all birds may be spared from... . Like all presidents, Joe Biden will pardon two turkeys next week, but thanks to a major scientific breakthrough, soon all birds may be spared from becoming Thanksgiving dinners. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration for the first time ever approved lab-grown meat -- in this case, chicken created by California start-up Upside Foods -- as safe for human consumption. Meat Cute Unlike the fake meat in Beyond burgers and the like, lab-grown meat is technically still meat -- created and cultured in a lab utilizing a handful of animal cells as a launching pad. Singapore officially opened the market for Franken-flesh last year, when start-up Eat Just gained regulatory approval to sell its "chicken" to consumers. The development pushed fundraising in the industry into hyperdrive, including a $400 million Series C raise scored by Upside Foods in April. While the California start-up still has a few hoops left to jump through -- including USDA inspection -- the FDA's all-clear marks a major domestic breakthrough. Fake meats are widely expected to radically reshape the food industry and it's not just farm animals that should be celebrating: Cultured meat could likely be produced with 96% less greenhouse gas emissions, 96% less water use, and 99% less land use than traditional animal food production, according to research from Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit published in the academic journal Environmental Science & Technology. We'll add that it also can be produced with 100% fewer animals. "Our own research indicates that alternative protein growth will continue exponentially through the late 2020s and early 2030s, with the sector reaching dominant market share in around 2035," Rosie Wardle, co-founder of food tech-focused VC firm Synthesis Capital (which invested in Upside Foods), told TechCrunch. Upside's product will initially be sold at a price premium, though CEO Uma Valeti tells TechCrunch the firm believes it will eventually achieve price parity -- and even a more affordable price point -- with conventional meat as the company scales. In other words, Orwell's Animal Farm may soon be a complete anachronism.
Soy Bean farmers won't be happy with this. Just about every canned product that is supposed to have meat like say chili for instance, actually uses soy beans. Very nasty stuff, it is about the closest thing to rotting human flesh as the real thing. You should smell the combine hoppers after a harvest and the combine sits in the rain for a while then the left over in the hoppers rot. Kinda makes me lose my appetite for any product using soy beans.
It was announced that the water would be safe to drink until 3:30 today. That's when the plume of contamination should reach the drinking water intake system. Really...3:30? Will it be safe at 3:15?
Rotten soy beans make soy sauce. Folks in Japan told me if I ever watched soy sauce made, i would never use it. Kinda like sausage I guess. Virtually all soy beans are now GMO entities and it is really unknown how GMOs affect intestinal flora and overall long-term health. Naturally-grown soybeans have been used by the people of Asia for millennia with no apparent issues.
Those Asian people have very strange appetites. Many of their foods are wonderful but those rotten eggs the Vietnamese love so well are enough to run you out of your hootch if mammasan ate her lunch in your hootch. The smell just lingers in the air. They eat rotten birds as well, I don't think I would ever be hungry enough to do that. The entire country is under water so there is an abundance of fish or shrimp but why rotten eggs and birds yuk. On the Mekong River was a large Vietnamese boat landing and fuel stop next to an open windowed restaurant. I believe it was a huge Texaco Gas sign out on the end of the boat tie up. We stopped there a few times to eat lunch if we were free and they had a complete menu so many of the guys liked that Bird Nest soup but I stick with the shrimp and rice, nothing that has the word bird in it. There was a joke among the people that flew them into the LZ's the first thing they done when they hit the ground was fire up the big cooking pot.