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Definitely Do Not Put Plastic in the Microwave (www.bonappetit.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Experts say even if it claims to be “microwave-safe.”

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why? Like, is this equivilant to 'smoking cigarettes will kill you?' Or more, 'going within ten metres of a running automobile will kill you?' Because stress and anxiety will kill you dead too. So...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I suspect the next generation will be horrified that people ever cooked in plastic. Or ate or drank out of plastic. They'll think of it the same way we think of lead pipes now.

The evidence of terrible health effects of plastic seems to be adding up very fast. Pthalates, PFAS, and microplastics all seem to be implicated in the increasing rates of ill health, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 11 months ago

increasing rates of ill health, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

It must be said: those also go up when people don't die of other stuff. They're what happens to healthy people, eventually.