The Molecule That Will Never Leave Your Body

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]280 cows died with blackened teeth.

[00:00:03]What killed them is in every glass of water on Earth.

[00:00:09]1998, West Virginia.

[00:00:11]>> [music] >> Wilbur Tennant, sixth-generation farmer.

[00:00:15]10 years earlier, he sold part of his land to DuPont for a harmless landfill, they told him.

[00:00:22]DuPont makes Teflon, the coating on every second pan.

[00:00:27]They need PFOA.

[00:00:29]The landfill is soaked with it.

[00:00:32]A creek runs out of the landfill. The cows drink from it.

[00:00:36]280 die in 2 years.

[00:00:40]The same water in the taps of 70,000 people.

[00:00:45]PFOA three times higher than DuPont's own internal limit.

[00:00:50]Documents will show DuPont knew since the '60s.

[00:00:55]40 years of silence.

[00:00:58]The carbon-fluorine bond, the strongest in nature, never breaks down. Doesn't leave the bloodstream.

[00:01:06]In 2017, DuPont paid the victims $670 million. The factory still The factory still runs. Same site, same river, same molecule.

[00:01:19]From the ocean into the clouds, from the clouds into every rain.

[00:01:25]In the taps of 45% of Americans, on every continent.

[00:01:31]The molecule cannot be taken back.

[00:01:35]And it's still in your glass.