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This is really easy to avoid; cooking and eating at home is much cheaper and does not really take any more time unless you want to make something special.

• NickM 2y ago
  You're ignoring the fact that lots of people really like getting takeout. There's nothing inherently wrong with wanting to pay someone else to cook a nice meal for you. The answer shouldn't be "nobody who likes takeout gets to enjoy it anymore without being poisoned," the answer should be "plastic manufacturers should be stopped from secretly poisoning people."
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  • Amezarak 2y ago
    Unfortunately, the reality is probably just that plastic itself is bad, and you can put different lipsticks on the pig and some of them are less bad than others, but you're not really solving the problem. Of course I agree that we should avoid putting known awful chemicals in things and I will lobby for that to happen, but the easiest thing in my life to control is what I do. Takeout is a luxury. In my experience, the best thing to do is focus on the things you can control. And for whatever reason, luxuries tend to be the source of a lot of these problems and easy to cut out. This is especially the case when you consider that odds are dangerous chemicals will be replaced with chemicals not yet known to be dangerous. At the end of the day, a lot of our problems come down to consumption and convenience. How many people got cancer because nonstick was a tiny bit more convenient? Unfortunately, novel, useful substances are pretty much always going to be destructive to the biosphere in some way.