It's amazing - and also kinda frightening - that lawmakers, no matter where they serve, spend as much of their (supposedly) valuable time coming up with stupid shit like this, instead of dealing with the serious problems that they do have the power to solve.
This screwball bill would ban the chemicals used in the cookware and a slew of other products, the latest in a series of nanny-state legislation Empire State officials have passed with or considered in recent years. New York would follow a handful of other states like Rhode Island, Minnesota and Connecticut (all Lib-run deep blue States) with a ban, but a trade group lobbying against said lawmakers are misunderstanding the science.
Nonstick cookware is made from polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE, a subset of the synthetic chemicals group called per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), commonly known as Teflon, is a synthetic fluoropolymer with numerous applications due to its chemical inertness, low friction, and resistance to heat. It's a strong, tough, waxy, and non-flammable material produced by polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene.
The ban wouldn’t just affect pots and pans. The sale of some architectural paints, car parts, cleaning products, rugs, ski wax textiles and polish containing PFAS would also be prohibited, according to the proposed law.
Treat yourself...
H: forever chemical
ReplyDeleteO: forever chemical
H2O: forever chemical.
The left: forever stupid.
Do the folks at "Granet Stone" know about this?
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why not call it the "Greta Thunberg bill" after the (no so anymore) little girl who knows nothing of actual science
ReplyDeletebe very fitting; it'll show how the majority of Liberal legislators don't know anything about science either
They’re condemning farmland because this is in the food-chain by way of human waste fetilizer..
ReplyDeletehttps://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/05/maine-makes-first-purchase-of-farm-contaminated-by-forever-chemicals/
I spent most of my 40-year working career in the housewares industry which included cookware manufacturing, marketing and selling. The limp wrist libtards and ignorant azz wipes who say non-stick is dangerous do not realize that they made artificial blood out of the same PTFE that is in non-stick surfaces of cooking vessels. The only "danger" is leaving a pan on an open flame and heating the pan to "cherry red" and burning off the non-stick surface. And that danger is deadly for the canaries that idiots bring into their kitchens.
ReplyDeleteSo... this stuff has been on the market for....decades? How many documented deaths can be directly attributed?
ReplyDeleteSaying the Feds say it's not dangerous is not a winning argument. No matter, I like my cast iron pans better than the non stick pans I previously used. When well kept up they're easier to clean and the non stick surface of the cast iron is easily renewed and won't scrape off when using a metal spatula.
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