PFAS in the quantities that are claimed to be harmful looks like a big nothingburger. The “forever chemicals” nonsense seems mostly to be another leftist panic. There is probably some very mild effect on kids, swamped by the vastly-unhealthy food most children consume, particularly in the US.

It’s worth it to have non-stick pans. It’s one of those, “We gave the rat PFAS shots for a year that amounted to 10% of its body weight per day. It died of cancer. PFAS is bad!”

Which is common in left “modernity should be rolled back” politics. I agree that there is PFAS risk. However, in the amount most people are exposed to in reality, it’s very tiny and would have minimal effect.

And also, most of the PFAS that most people are exposed to comes from firefighting effluent, not from fucking non-stick pans; leftist degrowrther types just hate non-stick pans because they are easier to use, so rejecting them means they can turn their nose up at modernity by doing something more difficult than it needs to be.

Man I hate degrowthers.