Why not just use something else like carbon steel or cast iron. They are both cheap and easy enough to maintain. My carbon steel frying pan is just as non-stick as Teflon, and actually gets better the more I use it.

Totally, it's safe if you take care of the pan; however, if you ever get it above a certain temperature the coating will break down and that's when there's risk. Also as you said, how much forever chemicals are released into the environment during it's production, and might I also add that those bits that go in and out are also in the environment forever.

I suspect no one wants to hear about cast iron pans anymore lol.

Cooking with Teflon pans has loads of evidence of killing pet birds nearby though so I'm not too sure it's as 100% safe as you say it is.

Every time someone's foaming at the mouth at how safe it is to eat Teflon, I can't help but to be reminder of the confidence of 1950's ad executives:

Have there been any independent long term studies done on Teflon inside human bodies?