Calgary city council votes to remove fluoride from water supply
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Calgary, Canada, with a metropolitan population of well over one million, will no longer lace its water supply with toxic fluoride. After much heated debate from both sides, the Calgary city council voted 10 - 3 to stop adding the hazardous chemical byproduct of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industries to the city's drinking water, ending more than 20 years of needless poisoning and scoring a significant victory for public health.
Hopefully this starts a snowball across the country....
To learn the truth about fluoride...
you thought it kept your teeth healthy? Not exactly...
Three parts. just follow the links at the end of the video.
jester
Fluoride should just be in toothpaste. Plus if I recall depending on the water source (i.e water bottles) are bottled with a fluoride, seeing its found in nature.
The Ear
Next, Calgarians will discover that another horrible secret is that they're controlling their minds with flu shots.
Just who are "they"? No one will ever know.
Elendil
There is absolutely no way that fluoride should be placed into the water supply.
Not only is evidence for it's "health" benefits flimsy at best, it is a substance which is dose sensitive... and there is simply not an adequate measure to control the amount of fluoride you are exposed to. It should be an option - you get it in your toothpaste (if you buy that type of toothpaste), or at the dentist (if you decide to go to one).
It's just another scam to offload industrial garbage onto the herd, as far as I'm concerned.
psyrel
Bravo Calgary.
Fluoridation works topically, so using it (if you chose to do so) in toothpastes or oral rinses makes far more sense than polluting our entire water supply, especially given that 99% of this water isn't used for human consumption.
psyrel
US based but it's interesting because the report raises a number of risks posed even at the 0.7mg/L level - which is what Health Canada's expert fluoride panel recommends.
I'm glad Toronto's levels are on the bottom end of what most North American cities have but I'd still much rather see us be able to do what Calgary just did.
If you research this on a worldwide basis TONS of cities rejected it years ago when proposed, mostly in Europe. I just find our corporations/government much more proficient at slipping stuff like this by with minimal reactions.
Euphorica
and if you express any other opinion....people fly out of nowhere slinging "nut job" and "tin foil" hat bs around. *facepalm*
