What you were seeing in my posts wasn’t panic, I have no reason to panic, it isn’t happening to me or mine. It was incredulity.
I’ve always thought that Freepers were a cut above the ordinary, but when I started reading about how many Freepers were foolishly using CFLs in food prep areas, I was stunned. My posts reflect that.
I spent more than 20 years in food production as a farmer. Along the way I produced a lot of feedstuffs and foodstuffs, including hundreds of thousands of market hogs. Never once in all those years, and all those hogs, did I ever subject the end purchaser of that pork to the risk that quite a number of Freepers seem so caviler about. It’s kind of like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at the last second of the game.
All the food that I produced, and all the food that goes through everyone’s kitchen, is then brought into direct contact with the part of the human body that is designed to be the most absorbent, the gut.
Do you really want to sprinkle that food with mercury just minutes before it goes to those tissues? Does the human gut absorb mercury? I don’t know, but I sure as hell won’t be conducting an experiment on my family. All over a couple of bucks?
It may not happen to you, but it already has happened to some Freepers, see post 61.
At least do what the National Electrical Code (I think it’s in there anyway) has required for decades, put a plastic sleeve of some sort over the bulb to prevent the mercury from dropping on the food prep area where it can stay for a very long time.
You have every right to conduct your kitchen in any way you want. But I can tell you, I’m not going to introduce my children’s, grandchildren’s innards to the innards of any of these bulbs.