I am amazed what a little comment about Teflon can do

Shortly after making a reference to Teflon on my blog last week, a representative of DuPont left a kindly, albeit patronizing, comment on my blog. My response to him quickly brought down the heat from DuPont. They made at least five separate visits to my blog yesterday and left a border-line abusive anonymous comment (tracked from my web analytics back to their server… THAT’S a bit embarrassing, DuPont, no?). Now I am watching as folks from the EPA, Veterans Affairs, the USDA, and a whole host of others who have never come before to read about my kids or small yappy dog are reading the blog.

Weird. And scary.

Scary that DuPont has googlebots trolling the internet to find out whether people are disparaging them on personal blogs. Scary that they are so worried about what’s in their products that they will take such massive action as meddling in our personal blogs and leaving belligerent comments for our friends and family to see. Scary that one little comment could set off a firestorm and quintuple the daily hits on my page.

But it does make me wonder what they are trying to hide.

Here’s what we know, folks. Nasty chemicals like PFOA (found in Teflon and Scotch-Guard as an example) and Bisphenol-A are not good for us. They are linked to higher rates of cancer, birth defects and other health hazards. I will continue to urge all of my friends and family to stop buying and using anything that contains them. And I fully support strong federal chemical policy reform. If the irate response from DuPont shows us anything, it’s that they know their products pose health hazards and are afraid that the people who read my blog, and yours, too, are going to find out.

So, moms, dads, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandpas, grandmas, friends, colleagues… what are we going to do? Shall we let the industry continue to bury their warnings about their products on page thirty in tiny print and attack folks on their personal blogs, or are we going to take them to task for knowingly poisoning us?

I vote for the latter. What up, bitches?