By your analogy, we should all be eating uranium because it produces clean nuclear energy. Yes?
Here's another example. "Potassium explodes on contact with water! I think I'll pass on potassium in my diet, thanks!" That would not be a good reaction. Note the logical difference between saying "that's a bad reaction" and saying "you should eat everything that explodes." You're implying that I'm saying the latter. I'm not. I'm saying the former.
I hope you’re not living under the DuPont shitstorm umbrella as appealing as it may sound.
Check out the 3M/DuPont Missisipi teflon lawsuits as well as the story of Robert Bilott, and his nationwide class action lawsuit for anyone with detectable teflon in their blood:
https://www.taftlaw.com/news-events/news/taft-wins-class-cer...
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/06/dupont-pfas-chemicals-la...
More recently, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-08/how-cance...
One of the first uses for wood was burning it for heat, creating toxic poisonous fumes.
I don’t have any problem using it as a material for my utensils, though.