Gov't aims to fluoridate 75% of the US water supply by 2010 whether you want it or not

massanova has it down! Cmon, do you really think that our government cares that we all have good teeth?? really?? WAKE THE FU*K up!!! my mom has always drank water from the fosset as i was growing up. now she has thyroid dysfunction and that is also caused by flouride in water. and whats worse brain damage or your teeth looking bad?

Flouride is good for your teeeth but bad for almost every other functioning system in our bodies. We get enough flouride in toothpaste now to fulfill our needs. Injesting flouridated water is killing us slowly.

If a fish won't have anything to do with it at .21 parts per million, I don't want anything to do with it at all...

What rocket scientist came up with the brilliant idea that flouriide is good for teeth anyway..? What hat did they pull that out of..?

Water fluoridation is not practised in almost all other European countries, yet our government pushes this chemical additive for our teeth.

Like they really care so much about our teeth.

Good, when are they going to classify our drinking water as a schedule 1 drug? With all of the pharmaceutical and other drugs that are being discovered in our water supply, how can they not?

I'm all for including health insurance...

But...

Health insurance doesn't take care of the cost of a cavity..it may give you a discount but it might not cover
the entire cost.

It won't cover braces or bridges or any other stuff.

And this stuff isn't free to a good home either.
It costs a lot.

Dental care is a lot more expensive than a regular trip to your md because of a upper bacterial infection.

It's really more akin to going to the hospital.

Next you guys will tell me that cholrinated tap water is bad because of the small amount of chlorine that helps to keep down bacteria in the water!

Let's take a poll...

Out of those posting here who are against flouridation, how many of you have ever lived anywhere that did?

I have.

It helps to prevent cavities.

Again, I say....

If it's so bad, why does your dentist give you flouride treatments?

It hardens the enamel of your teeth making it harder to prevent cavities.

Look, I think this is extreme environmentalism akin to
screaming one's head off because people eat animals like beef....

Sodium flouride was the original form of flouride tested by the govt. for use. None of which is still used today because of the cost. Cheap less effective forms are used in water today.

The government needs to mandate dental insurance along with health insurance. More than 100 million people do not have dental insurance. Dental health can have a negative effect on physical health causing such problems as heart disease. Putting fluoride in our water is an easier solution for them. In the end doctors, pharmaceutical and insurance companies win because we will all be sick from the constant poisons this government allows to be administered to us. They really do give a shit about us in this great, free so called democracy that we live in.

It sounds like most people are well informed. Another point that is VERY important, is that fluoride is accumulative; which means that it just keeps accumulating in the body primarily in the skeletal system and is not flushed away. That is why there is such a big problem with the elderly just doing something as simple as standing up and having their legs or arms shatter. Let's call it what it is legalized forced medication...what next?

Between the ages of 1 and 4, I lived in Greece, where the water was floridated. My teeth have never had a cavity, which is nice. However, they have a strange, chalky look about them, and a few are slightly odd in shape. This condition is called fluorosis. I've seen pictures of what a more long-term exposure to fluoride can produce, and in terms of cosmetics, these unfortunate individuals might as well have their teeth rotting out of their heads.

Take a look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_fluorosis

What's safe to drink anyway? there's acid rain, there's poisoned ground water... and now our government is fucking it up. WTF are we doing? Is our "advanced" civilization so much better? We can't even live off the land anymore, Native Americans lived there for well over ten thousand years, we've screwed everything up in less than one thousand.

The consensus here seems to be; we all agree it is bad stuff. Many people now drink bottled water not realizing that it comes from municipal supplies and unless they use an RO system, plenty of flouride remains in the water.
For conspiracy theorists out there; it is a handy injection point for more lethal substances.

Flouride isn't even good for teeth.

That is just a bunch of hype. I have seen pictures of what flouride can do to teeth.

Flouride is a poison and it destroys your body's ability to absorb oxygen.

More forced entry!

Fluoride: Good for teeth, bad for brains. Seriously.

Nazzi doctors tested fluoride as a means of controlling the population. It caused damage to the brain there by making them lethargic and more easily controlled.

I am glad I have a well.

Hmm, is this government in collusion with companies to turn people onto bottled water because they are losing money now?

the gov. doesn't want us to live any longer then 65 years old, otherwise it cost them money.

Only young people need Flouride for their developing teeth. Once you get older, it is not good for you. DOes the government WANT to keep us ill. They want us to keep needing Rx Drugs and hospitals. God Forbid we be healthy.

Fluoridation is one of the biggest scams of the 20th century. I highly recommend reading Robert Sterling's article "The Fluoridation Fraud" that appears in "Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies." Here's an excerpt from the article:

"For all the billions saved and earned by the military-industrial complex because of water fluoridation, however, the most important number comes from Drs. Burk and Yiamouyinnis: 30,000 to 50,000 deaths each year from various causes may now be attributable to fluoridation. This total includes 10,000 to 20,000 deaths attributable to fluoride-induced cancer every year.

Does this sound like an exaggeration? Consider that fluoride is more toxic than lead, and not quite as toxic as arsenic. In April 2001, there was deserved outrage in the US over the Bush Administration's decision to weaken regulations limiting arsenic in water. Rather than changing the limit to 10 parts per billion, the decision was made to leave it at 50 ppb. Lead is at 15 ppb. Meanwhile, fluoridated water has, on average, over 1 part per million, not billion, or one thousand ppb, which is twenty times the higher arsenic level chosen.

All of which makes the promotion of fluoridation perhaps the most amazing scam of the twentieth century. There perhaps has been no better example of how an inherently dangerous product linked to poison, pollution, and weapons of mass destruction has been transformed in the public's eye into a paragon of health. It is the ultimate con job in terms of mass manipulation, the perfect emblem of 'toxic sludge is good for you' mentality promoted by the poison-PR industry..."

Websites for further research:
Earth Island Journal Special Section Fluorides and the Environment
http://www.earthislandprojects.org/eijournal/fluoride/fluoride_index.html
Fluoride Action Network
http://fluoridealert.org/
NoFluoride.com
http://nofluoride.com/

It should be up to the county, determined by a popular vote.

Uggg. Crazy that so many people still think that fluoridated water is a great solution--slow poisoning to take away your spunk and spirit and make you complacent and foolish, easy to manipulate and round up into sheeple corrals.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/index.html

Fluoride attacks the brain and lowers your IQ over long periods of time. Even if you dont get it from the water you drink, many fast food restaurants put it in their food. Its toxic waste that is too expensive to dispose of legally, so they had it lobbied into our water supply. Thank your corporate government for that one.

If you live in a place with fluoridated water, i would look into the Berkey Light Water filtering system with the extra PF-2 filter(fluoride is so hard to remove it takes its own filter). I've been using it for about a year now and its some of the cleanest water I've ever had.

http://jamesfilter.com/berkey.aspx
http://jamesfilter.com/addonfilters.aspx

I like fluoridated water. It works. There is zero harm in adding flouride to water. You can buy fluoridated water in stores.

Thank goodness for my well water!

Good point, maasanova

You're not supposed to swallow your toothpaste, so why are you supposed to swallow fluoridated water?

There is a big difference between getting a flouride treatment every 6 months or a year, and ingesting it into your system every day.

Flouridated water works to prevent cavities.
If it was so bad for us, why the heck do dentists give flouride treatments?

This is a no brainer.

I once watched a water treatment plant operator take a load of flouride. He was in a full HAZMAT suit with supplied air. This stuff is so toxic that one small sniff, and he would be dead.
The city in question was one of the last to add flouride, even though the people that appeared at the city meeting were opposed to the idea.
It seems as though any time a company or government entity want to go against the will of the people, they use the excuse, "It's for the good of the children."