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I disagree with your stance.

While emerging evidence should be used to change guidelines, we should not be at the mercy of corporations wishing to increase their profit margins with unknown chemicals.

You don't have to work with what you have only just invented and don't understand.

You're talking about bottles and pans. We have managed with bottles and pans for a thousand years before pfas.



They used to put lead in everything. Just because it’s traditional doesn’t mean it’s safe.


No one said traditional. Time tested would be a better phrase for what I've described.

Cast iron, steel, glass, ceramic

We have thousands of years of evidence that these things are safe

Edit: traditional? That's not even what that means anyway. Old?


What? I'm saying we now know it's super harmful and should work with that knowledge to regulate against it, without waiting for all experts to agree and all studies to show.


That does not come across from the other post, but yes that seems fair




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