DuPont’s Deadly Cover-up: Non-Stick Cookware Chemicals Caused Widespread Cancer for Decades

By Nick Meyer

Photo: DuPont Washington Works plant on the Ohio River via Sott.net

Much like Monsanto, DuPont has been widely involved in everything from chemical production to weapons production (Agent Orange) and yes, even food production.

The company has a huge stake in both the genetically engineered corn and soy markets, making it one of the leading producers of GMO seeds in the world (second only to Monsanto as these charts show).

One of DuPont’s biggest moneymakers is Teflon, the “most slippery material in existence” that was discovered accidentally in 1945. Teflon is useful for making non-stick cookware, but it’s also a hazardous chemical that has been linked to several diseases, and is it turns out the process of making it also ends up being disastrous for the environment, as well as human health; an inconvenient fact DuPont doesn’t want the general public to know about.

Now, the website Earth Island Journal has blown the lid off of a DuPont cover-up involving thousands of personal injury cases against the company, which attempted to cover-up mass poisonings in the Ohio River Valley that mostly affected Ohio and West Virginia residents. The article was published on Salon.com and is now attracting widespread attention.

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