*giggling* Oracle, you are aware that, except for the microwave, every other item you listed has either been outright banned or is being phased out because it has been definitively linked to cancer! Teflon also hasn't been banned, but many a pet bird has bitten the dust when sitting a tad too close to a teflon pot that burned while forgotten. I love my teflon pots, but if they're giving me cancer, I want to know that. For those not in the know, at temps over 400, teflon is toxic, fatal even, which is why they can't be used in an oven.