Heating food in a lead pot over wood fire is probably lot more hazardous than microwaving plastic container. It's useful to have a sense of scale here
Who on earth cooks over fire with a LEAD pot? Pretty sure that has never been a thing…
The impact and use of lead by romans has has been debated, but there is indication that they used lead cookware, although admittedly more for wine than food.
They also used it for their water piping which wasn’t too good. Then again, looking at what’s going on, it is an interesting question if we can rule out some similar effect for the weird decline of previously sane people like the former Mayor of New York. They may have been assholes all along, but it’s also clear that so thing changed.
Ya we stopped that a while back, so why would this matter now?
Because "worst thing you could possibly do with your food" is such ridiculous hyperbole
In the south it’s cooking indoors with wood fires and breathing in smog which causes high rates of lung cancer.