That’s not a great comparison. If it was comparable to lead in terms of identifying toxicity, we wouldn’t be having this debate. So actually plastic is worse

That’s not a great comparison. If it was comparable to lead in terms of identifying toxicity, we wouldn’t be having this debate. So actually plastic is worse than lead in that it’s more insidious, some want to slowly kill things but it’s nearly impossible to tell which. If only it were like lead and upfront about it. So no, they are not saying “metal is toxic”. That is extending the analogy to another topic: identification