"Wheeler"  wrote in message
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> From: David Roberts [mailto:droberts{at}******]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:23 AM
> To: *******
> Subject: RE: Response re Teflon
>
> Dear Roberta:
>
> It's not flip at all. It's interesting, because someone puts something on
> the internet, that gains a life of it's own and people take the information
> they read on the internet as gospel.
>
> Teflon is the most studied and tested product in America by the FDA and
> USDA. It's been studied for over 30 years with no adverse affects to humans
> or animals. I think that if you use any product, as it was not intended, it
> can be dangerous. For example; if you had your bird in the kitchen and
> fried bacon in a cast iron skillet and removed the bacon and left the
> skillet on the burners at med. High heat, to where the bacon fat started
> smoking, the fumes from the smoke could kill a small bird. Does that mean
> that bacon is evil or consumer abuse? Anything that is not used properly
> can hurt us, from knives in the kitchen to Clorox bleach.
>
> I will admit to you that if you misuse the product and use it in a manner
> that it was not intended for, you could do harm. But having said that,
> people have to use common sense with all things........Look at how
> dangerous toilets are to small children; leave the lid up and a child falls
> into the toilet, the child would drown. Should we get rid of toilets too?
> I don't think so.
>
> At some point in time, people are ultimately responsible for their own
> actions. Is it the fault of the Teflon being overheated on the stovetop, on
> high, with nothing in the pan or the person who misused the product? Did
> the Teflon kill the bird or did the homeowner?
>
> Quite frankly, the argument over the use of Teflon has been created by the
> far left California wacko's, who think all of us should live on the ground
> and gather berries and nuts.
>
> Just use common since in all things in life.
>
> David Roberts
> President
> Chef's Planet, LLC.

Wow.  Chef's Planet.  Most impressive credentials to be pawning
yourself off as some kind of chemistry expert.

At least the guy exposes himself for what he really is -- just another
supply-side shill.  Maybe he can explain why Dupont agreed to pay
$350 million to replace livestock killed by and clean up groundwater
contaminated by their shit product.




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