New state restrictions on boots

Mosby

Mosby

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Now that my hunting season is over, I've decided that I need to replace some of my boots. My Irish Setter's have a hole in the lining and my legs and hips got pretty sore the last time out. Some of my hiking boots need to be replaced too. I'm getting older but I think new boots, insoles and cushioning might help. I was looking on the Lowa website at the weight of some of their boots and noticed they were showing this new restriction on shipping their boots

State Restrictins:

As of 1/1/2025, boots containing PFAS cannot be sold to residents of New York, California, and Minnesota.

I wasn't aware of this. Lowa is a popular and well made boot. I don't know what models or other brands are affected by these restrictions but thought I would mention for those that live in the states listed.
 
No idea what PFAS is, but I am assuming if you smoke it or eat it, it is not good for you. Nice those states' elected officials are looking out of their residents. They must believe it would be easier to not sell these boots than trying to teach their constituents not to eat their boots. Sorry for your elected officials fella, there will be more elections.
 
remy3424 said:
No idea what PFAS is, but I am assuming if you smoke it or eat it, it is not good for you. Nice those states' elected officials are looking out of their residents. They must believe it would be easier to not sell these boots than trying to teach their constituents not to eat their boots. Sorry for your elected officials fella, there will be more elections.
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Like they say 40 years ago car owner manuals told you how to adjust valves and tune carburetors. Now they tell you not drink the battery acid. We're so smart we're dumb these days.
 
Now companies will have to make PFAS "compliant" boots...which will likely cost twice as much and work half as well. As if decent boots didn't cost enough already.
 
In Minnesota, they are calling it the “forever chemical.” Some of the local power sports dealers are learning they no longer can sell the smaller cycles and atv designed for young kids as the plastics on them contain this chemical
 
remy3424 said:
No idea what PFAS is
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They are class of chemicals that basically exist forever in the environment. Companies like DuPont and 3M have released them into our waterways and groundwater for years and we're all now paying the price for it. The EPA and state pollution agencies have taken them to court and they have been required to commit to cleaning it up for years go come. These chemicals have been proven to cause a variety of cancer and other chronic illnesses. Most Americans have traces of PFAS in their bodies by now.

DuPont was required to pay out $1.2 billion and 3M was required to pay out a whopping $12.5 billion because of their PFAS actions on this recently. These companies value profit over health of people and the environment.

Banning the waterproof PFAS chemicals on products is pretty silly logic. It's not the individual products with these chemicals that have caused the problem; it's the companies that leached them into the environment that did. DuPont basically dumped it into the Ohio River when they first made teflon-coated cookware.
 
Like the movie "Dark Waters". That was a bit concerning as far as the recklessness of companies manufacturing and disposal of their waste.

***I just looked it up, that movie was back in 2019...maybe we could start by stopping using that stuff in items we cook with or store food in.
 
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remy3424 said:
No idea what PFAS is, but I am assuming if you smoke it or eat it, it is not good for you. Nice those states' elected officials are looking out of their residents. They must believe it would be easier to not sell these boots than trying to teach their constituents not to eat their boots. Sorry for your elected officials fella, there will be more elections.
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I agree, but then again, there are also things we can't buy at walmart, without an age check, because kids aren't smart enough to not sniff compressed air cans.

Not saying the government should nanny like they do with the boots. More a comment about how stupid a certain percentage of the population is.
 
I looked up pfas briefly when I read this post. I have already forgotten what it stands for, but I think it was saying the chemicals can leach into you body through contact. No idea if it would take 10,000 years of contact to provide a toxic dose or if it is a real issue, but that is what I got out of it.
 
Is that the same stuff that's in Scotch guard? I saw somewhere that that stuff is bad. I used to soak all kinds of clothes withy that stuff. My wife told me after watching me spary roundup in shorts and crocks that with all the stuff I've put on and, in my body, no wonder I'm stupid!:rolleyes:
 
Guys, its not the individual products that have PFAS that are causing the problem. Those products are safe to use otherwise they wouldn't be on the market.

Its the companies that make those products and their lack of disposal/responsibility into the environment. The stuff is in nearly every groundwater and surface water system now and removing it is bascially impossible. If you consume freshwater fish, those filets likely have PFAS in them too. This stuff takes hundreds of years to degrade on its own. Its not going anywhere in the near future.
 
If I remember the movie right, the called them "forever chemicals" as they dont breakdown. I do think it is more than the contaminated ground water, it is the non-stick coatings in the pans, the high temp plastic cooking utensils and such. The scotchgard spray would be easier inhaled...I used that before along with my other examples. If I remember right at the end of the Dark Waters movie it say that almost anyone on the entire planet has it in their system now. Not sure how detrimental trace amounts are, but we have something or many somethings that are causing cancers in the people and animals right now. It isn't "if you get cancer", it is "when you get cancer". I need to watch that movie again...it stumbled across it years ago and never had heard of it...haven't heard about it (the movie) since. It is on the lines of Erin Brockovich....a cheaper version with the same general plot....big reckless corp poisoning the environment.
 
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