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Both Fairbanks and Juneau, which represent the second and third most populous cities in Alaska, respectively, recently decided to end their water fluoridation programs after some members of special fluoride task forces found water fluoridation to be a questionable and unsubstantiated "public health" protocol. But what really pushed the decision over the edge in both cases was the surge of public opposition.
The report cites the fact that 99 percent of western continental Europe, as well as most of the rest of the world, has either ended or long-rejected water fluoridation for some of the very same reasons.
Only five percent of the world's population, after all, is exposed to artificially fluoridated water -- and 50 percent of such people live in North America, and primarily in the US.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Political rhetoric won out over science and the best advice of our medical and dental community - looks like the Tea Party wants something rotten in America - teeth!
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Political rhetoric won out over science and the best advice of our medical and dental community - looks like the Tea Party wants something rotten in America - teeth!
Originally posted by Aletheia007
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
Omg YOu are distorting the facts to suit your own agenda. here is a snippet from the link i provided since u havent even bothered to read.
Common misconceptions
It is often claimed by opponents of fluoridation that the aluminium and phosphate fertiliser industries have a vested interest in promoting water fluoridation. It is perhaps worthwhile addressing those claims here.
The phosphate fertiliser industry
Apatite is the raw material used in the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers, and Fluorine for the manufacture of fluorides for water fluoridation is recovered from this process. The manufacturing process of fluorosilicic acid for water fluoridation involves recovery of the product from a vapour phase, which ensures a high degree of purity. The product is therefore manufactured in tandem with the production of phosphoric acid, and can be described as a co-product. It would, however, be equally valid to describe phosphate fertilizers as coproducts of the manufacture of fluorosilicic acid, since each are valuable products.
The aluminium industry
The basis of the claims that the aluminium industry promotes fluoridation in order to dispose of its toxic waste seems to be based on a tenuous link more than 40 years ago in the USA. In the 1940s, The Aluminium Company of America
(ALCOA) acquired a chemical manufacturing plant which produced fluoride compounds by the method described above (not as a waste product of aluminium production). ALCOA was then using sodium fluoride as a catalyst in the aluminium smelting process, but soon replaced sodium fluoride with less costly fluoride compounds. ALCOA sold the chemical plant in the early 1950s; their last sales of sodium fluoride were in 1952. Nowadays, the aluminium industry is the largest user of fluoride compounds, and has no interest in promoting water fluoridation whatsoever
To check whether the fluoride added to water is the same as that which is naturally present, it was necessary to establish the extent to which the hexafluorosilicate ion (SiF62-) splits up to form fluoride ion (F¯) and silicic acid (Si(OH)4) – a process known as the dissociation reaction. The calculation covered the range of pH levels normally encountered in water supplies (a pH below 7 indicates acidity, a pH in excess of 7 indicates alkalinity), and the `worst case’ in terms of the relevant chemical reactions (by using the smallest value hydrolysis constant). The results showed
that, effectively, all of the hexafluorosilicate would dissolve to form free fluoride ion (F¯).
Next, the rate at which the dissociation reaction takes place was calculated to check whether the process of splitting will take place within the timescale relevant to water treatment and distribution (hours to days). The conclusion was that the process is complete by the time the water reaches the consumers tap.
Also to add further injury to your facts here is the chemical reaction formula for hexafluorosilicic acid when its added to water H2SiF6 + 4H2O ↔ 6F¯ + Si(OH)4 + 6H+...What this shows after water has been added that the reaction splits the chemical compound into fluorine ions silicic acid and hydrogen ions. Now you care to tell me that this formula is wrong? Why dont you find yourself a chemist and ask him if you cant understand it.edit on 23-10-2011 by Aletheia007 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by e11888
reply to post by Aletheia007
I dont care how good or bad for you it is. You do NOT forcefully medicate a population against their will. You want Fluoride? Go buy it. Keep it the hell out of my drinking water.
I choose fresh clean water the way it was put on this earth. I am entitled to that choice. I do not need control freaks telling me what I must drink.
Originally posted by Aletheia007
Originally posted by e11888
reply to post by Aletheia007
I dont care how good or bad for you it is. You do NOT forcefully medicate a population against their will. You want Fluoride? Go buy it. Keep it the hell out of my drinking water.
I choose fresh clean water the way it was put on this earth. I am entitled to that choice. I do not need control freaks telling me what I must drink.
lol fresh water ls also naturally fluoridated the tap and fresh water are no different in chemical makeup
Originally posted by e11888
Originally posted by Aletheia007
Originally posted by e11888
reply to post by Aletheia007
I dont care how good or bad for you it is. You do NOT forcefully medicate a population against their will. You want Fluoride? Go buy it. Keep it the hell out of my drinking water.
I choose fresh clean water the way it was put on this earth. I am entitled to that choice. I do not need control freaks telling me what I must drink.
lol fresh water ls also naturally fluoridated the tap and fresh water are no different in chemical makeup
You still dont get it do you? I dont care if my natural water has deer # in it I do not want ANYTHING added by Government or business to my water against my will. Do you understand that? I dont care whats in there or how healthy it is. Keep your hands the hell out of my water. Period.
Ill say this again for the control freaks that insist on playing God with my water supply. You do NOT forcefully medicate a population against their will... especially a population that is supposed to be FREE!
you seem to be suffereing from acute flouride poisening (spelling)
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Political rhetoric won out over science and the best advice of our medical and dental community - looks like the Tea Party wants something rotten in America - teeth!