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There's a difference in increasing your lifetime risk of cancer 0.5% by eating too much cheese compared to atmospheric levels of PFAS. I can choose to not eat t

There's a difference in increasing your lifetime risk of cancer 0.5% by eating too much cheese compared to atmospheric levels of PFAS. I can choose to not eat too much cheese, and in fact I don't, for that same reason. I can't choose to stop breathing in or drinking PFAS in the environment. I don't know about you but 0.5% increase in lifetime risk of cancer is not something I'm comfortable taking on, and it's not fair that I don't have any say in the matter. Cancer sucks.

Aeolun 4y ago
> I don't know about you but 0.5% increase in lifetime risk of cancer is not something I'm comfortable taking on My point was rather that there’s probably a variety of things you do in daily life that have exactly that effect, but nobody is excited about those. Probably because cheese is tasty and random chemicals in the air aren’t.