Petition Tag - fluoride

Fluoride is a poison that causes numerous health problems and our City has voted against the removal of it for years despite the cities around us passing the vote. Many studies have shown the effects of fluoride on the human body and some of the problems include but are not limited to,

CANCER
BRAIN DAMAGE IN UNBORN FETUS
BONE WEAKNESS
DENTAL AND SKELETAL FLUOROSIS
JOINT PROBLEMS
DEMENTIA
STOMACH DAMAGE
LOWERING OF IQ
INTERFERES WITH WHITE BLOOD CELL PRODUCTION
THYROID PROBLEMS
HEART CIRCULATION PROBLEMS
ALZHEIMERS
AUTISM

This Petition is important because this is a real poison that we are given daily and have no choice whether or not to consume it.

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Please sign this petition if you oppose the use of fluoride in the water supply of the City of Elliot Lake, Ontario.

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In 1992, former United States Environmental Protection Agency scientist Robert Carton claimed that "fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century."

The rates of dental decay in areas with unfluoridated water are statistically equivalent to those with fluoridated water, proving that water fluoridation is unnecessary for the prevention of tooth decay.

Fluoride's ability to damage the brain represents one of the most active areas of research on fluoride toxicity today.

Fluoride can be one of the most volatile and active harmful chemicals in the body. Fluoride can attack mercilessly, against any age group, but its effects are especially harmful to developing children and the elderly.

Fluoride is known to cause dental fluorosis, a defect of the tooth enamel caused by fluoride’s interference with developing teeth. Its visible signs are mottled or yellowed teeth. Nearly 30% of children drinking fluoridated water suffer from dental fluorosis on two or more teeth (Hileman, 1988).

Fluoride confuses the immune system and causes it to attack the body's own tissues, and increases the tumor growth rate in cancer prone individuals.

Fluoride is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Fluoride enters the brain and enables aluminum to cross the blood-brain barrier, resulting in increased risk for these diseases.

Fluoride has also been associated with low IQ and mental retardation in children (Hileman, 1988).
The research on fluoride and the brain has been fueled by 18 human studies from China, India, Iran, and Mexico finding elevated levels of fluoride exposure to be associated with IQ deficits in children.

Fluoride can cause a crippling bone disease called skeletal fluorosis. In more mild forms, symptoms of this disease include chronic joint pain, similar to the symptoms of arthritis.

Fluoride disrupts the activity of normally functioning hormones. Fluoride can reduce levels of melatonin, the sleep hormone, in the body, causing chronic insomnia (Hileman, 1988).

Most European countries have now rejected the process of water fluoridation. Their children’s teeth have not suffered from this rejection. The cost/benefit ratio of fluoridated water no longer warrants the presence of fluoride in drinking water.

A 2001 study found that "fluoride, particularly in toothpastes, is a very important preventive agent against dental caries," but added that "additional fluoride to that currently available in toothpaste does not appear to be benefiting the teeth of the majority of people."

Research shows fluoridation is unnecessary since we're already receiving 300% or more of the American Dental Association's recommended dosage. We are wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year fluoridating our water when it is completely unnecessary, unethical and dangerous.

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Fluoride was added to the water under a false pretence that it helped tooth decay.

There is no scientific proof to back this up. Fluoride is a highly toxic substance.

It is lethal in high doses.

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Let's Invest in Safe, Cost Effective Nuclear Power: LFTRs

LFTRs (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors) are safer, cheaper, and more efficient than reactors we use now, and we have a huge supply of thorium in Canada. In fact, every country in the world has lots of easily accessible thorium since it is everywhere in the earth's crust, but we have some of the richest and largest deposits in the world. If we choose to power the world with thorium, all countries in the world will have enough energy to meet all their needs for thousands of years.

LFTRs can be the source of all our existing electrical power, plus the "additional" electrical power we will need for electric vehicles. We can also use LFTRs to provide the heat and steam to extract oil from the Alberta Tarsands, which means much less CO2 is produced to extract useful oil. This would dramatically reduce the CO2 emitted during the production of tarsands oil, making it equivalent to other liquid oil extracted from conventional oil wells.

Please help raise awareness of LFTRs, by signing this petition which will be sent to Member of Parliament, and other relevant politicians.

Let's ensure our politicians know about LFTRs and the opportunity they present. By signing this petition, we can ask our politicians how Canada will research, develop, and deploy reactors to use this attractive energy source.

For more information, read the full pdf at:
http://www.freefilehosting.net/letterpromotinglftr

More on Thorium:

News Clip Video (4 minutes): "Thorium fuel of the future. Safe, abundant, dense."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k2cWD2mjhQ&feature=related
Detailed Video (82 minutes): "A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8
Details on LFTR : http://thorium.50webs.com/
Wikepedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
Thorium Energy Alliance : http://thoriumenergyalliance.com/
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/EnergyFromThorium
Weinberg Foundation (British Lobby Group Promoting LFTRs): http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org

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Gold Coast residents receive un-itemised bills from the local council and private contractor Allconnex that only states "water" is the service being charged for, when there is more than water being sent through the taps.

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There is NO scientifically valid evidence that this chemical is beneficial to health : all the available evidence points to a large range of ill effects from osteoporosis to osteosarcoma to headaches to infertility to thyroid dysfunction.

Fluoride is a waste product, a poison. It is not enough to avoid consumption as 75% of absorption is though the skin i.e. when we bathe.

The average fluoride concentration for Anglian Water appears to be 0.262 mg/l and they state on their website that it has been added by instruction of the Strategic Health Authority however they do not test any of the HA (fluoride) for animal or human safety that they receive from 'Hydro Gas & Chemicals (who specialise in wood preservation, pesticides, hardening of cement... get the picture?).

Anglian water state the following reasons for fluoridation:
the procedures in the Water (Fluoridation) Act 1985 have been satisfied
we are satisfied with the indemnity
the Health Authority meets the capital and revenue costs of the scheme
our operational flexibility is not constrained by the requirements of the fluoridation scheme"
NB: Indemnity refers to their insurance for any costs arising from adverse health effects caused by the fluoride.

Don't just take my word for it. Do some research, challenge me...

But the sad fact is that fluoride was introduced by the Nazi's in their caps of war as a method of 'slow kill', to instill a slowness and tiredness about them, to keep them weak and prevent rebellion. It doesn't just cause drowsiness it effects the nerves and eats away at the brain causing permanent irreversible damage as well as infertility.

There is no getting away from it. It is here, on our doorstep, in our homes. So what are we going to do about it? Sit down and have another glass of fluoride water? Or sign this petition and visit www.youtube.com/fluoridefreebritain

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* The FDA classifies fluoride as an "unapproved prescription drug" and has not approved it for ingestion!

* Citizens of Des Moines are being medicated without consent and against their will!

* The EPA allows fluoride to be added to our drinking water, yet silicofluorides have never been safety tested!

Des Moines Water Works recently made the decision to continue fluoridating municipal water. They claim to provide citizens "with a safe, clean, healthy water supply" despite any safety testing.

Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie has stated that "citizen safety and health is our top priority" despite any safety testing.

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There are many studies done by research scientists which indicate a variety of health dangers associated with water fluoridation.

Dartmouth University released a multi-year study (Sept '99) involving 280,000 children which linked fluoridation with high lead levels in children. Prof. Masters, head of the Dartmouth Foundation for Neuroscience and Society, said the problem is especially serious because lead poisoning is associated with higher rates of learning disabilities, hyperactivity, substance abuse, and crime. Children who have been poisoned by lead are less able to handle stress and are more prone to violent outbursts.

The American Dental Association continues to state fluoride is responsible for reducing cavities. The National Institute of Dental Health produced the largest and most comprehensive study on over 39,000 school children aged 5 -17 years. The study showed no significant differences in cavities in fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated or partially fluoridated communities. This study was never refuted by the ADA.

A review of recent scientific literature reveals a consistent pattern of evidence--hip fractures, skeletal fluorosis, the effect of fluoride on bone structure, fluoride levels in bones and osteosarcomas--pointing to the existence of causal mechanisms by which fluoride damages bones.

Dental fluorosis is a health condition caused by a child receiving too much fluoride during tooth development. The critical period of exposure is between 1 and 4 years old; children over age 8 and adults are also at risk. In its mild form, which is the most common, fluorosis appears as tiny white streaks or specks that are often unnoticeable. In its severest form, which is also called mottling of dental enamel, it is characterized by black and brown stains, as well as cracking and pitting of the teeth.

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The fluoridation of water in the City of Red Deer should be decided via plebiscite during the 2013 election to let the citizens decide the issue in a democratic process and in the process, do so at least cost.

Currently, there is another petition (Removal of Fluoride from the municipality of Red Deer) with the petition statement: “We, the Citizens, call on to the City of Red Deer to stop adding Fluoride to our municipal water supply”. That petition is available at:
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/44571.html

This petition is for the people to speak directly about fluoridation of water.

Speaking with a couple of the current City Councilors about the topic, fluoridation in municipal water is a divisive issue and a reasonable approach to such an issue is to have it decided directly by the people – not by special interest groups, not by special interest Councilors, not by corporations or by persons with vested interests.

Municipal water has undergone a fluoridation process for many, many years and taking time to better understand the process and the concerns. It is not a detrimental do or die situation. We can, at low cost, decide the issue via plebiscite during the 2013 Municipal Election.

In the meantime, speak with your Dentist, Doctor, Hygienist, call the University of Alberta Dental School, and research the topic via the Internet to be prepared with your YES/NO response come 2013.

To provide some alternative reading other than that shown in the ‘other’ petition, please see the links below:

http://www.cda-adc.ca/en/oral_health/faqs_resources/faqs/fluoride_faqs.asp
http://www.scumdoctor.com/dental-health/fluoride/Pros-And-Cons-Of-Fluoride.html

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People should have the right to choose whether or not to be exposed to fluoride. Unfortunately many of us were never given that choice. Today it is almost impossible to escape fluoride. It is in the fountain pop at the drive thru, at your local coffee shop, bottled and draft beer, you get the idea. At home we cook, shower and bath in it, its ridiculous!

Now the thing you might find interesting is where does the fluoride come from? The fluoride used in our drinking water is an industrial waste product from the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industry. It is an unprocessed contaminated waste with a number of toxins, particularly arsenic. This type of fluoride has never Been Tested for safety and effectiveness. However it has been very effective as rat poison and cockroach powder.

So why do we put this in our water? The answer is simple, money. But not money for us, or our community, money for the corporations. By promoting it as a some kind of dental miracle they are able to eliminate their waste and make a profit at the same time. But does it benefit our teeth? New evidence suggests that fluoridation is either unnecessary or doesn't work. Cavities have declined at similarly impressive rates throughout the entire western, industrialized world over the past half century where there was no fluoridation.

"Water fluoridation is the single largest case of scientific fraud, promoted by the government, supported by taxpayer dollars, aided and abetted by the ADA and the AMA, in the history of the planet."

- David Kennedy, DDS President International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology

Some Harmful effects of fluoride include.

Diminished IQ'S, hypothyroidism, increase in hip fractures, increase in infertility, cancer, abnormal bone development, skeletal fluorosis, dental fluorosis.

Fluoride is not meant to be swallowed, if you look on your tooth paste it will advise you to contact poison control if accidentally swallowed. Why is it okay to drink it then? It is an accumulated poison, so while you may not see the effects right now, there is a good chance you may experience them later. The choice is clear, remove it from our water, and those who still want fluoridation are still free to do so.

Please research this topic for yourself and find your own truths. Do not take Authority as Truth, but rather Truth as the Authority!!

http://www.staytuned.ws/articles/fluoride.html
http://www.staytuned.ws/articles/fluorideref.html
http://preventdisease.com/home/tips79.shtml
http://fluoridealert.org/fan-comments.html

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Water fluoridation is an outdated practice that carries with it serious health risks and offers little to no benefit. Current studies clearly demonstrate that that populations living in communities with fluoridated water are showing dangerously high levels of dental fluorosis, the physical manifestation of systemic fluoride toxicity.

This medicine comes with no control as to how much each individual is receiving. People who depend on high water intake such as infants on formula and athletes are consuming much more fluoride than someone that is older and more sedentary. This puts them at higher risk of fluorosis which has a myriad of chronic and debilitating symptoms. Municipalities with or without fluoridated water show statistically equivalent tooth decay rates.

Water fluoridation also carries serious ethical and legal issues. First and foremost citizens of Gainesville are being forced to ingest a medicine without their consent and many without the knowledge of it. There are also no warnings provided by GRU or the city alerting mothers to not use tap water for infant formula., something the CDC is advising Americans.

There are much better alternatives to water fluoridation. Tooth decay is not caused by lack of water fluoridation. It is caused by poor diet and dental hygiene. Proper dental hygiene should be taught in schools and made part of the daily routine in elementary schools. If in fact an individual needs fluoride supplementation, they can pursue that treatment individually or be prescribed a treatment plan by a dentist.

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The fluoridation of water is poisonous to our health.

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Please sign this petition if you oppose the use of fluoride in the water supply of Greater Sudbury.

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A great deal of people wish to have fluoride removed from their local water supply, but also globally.

Please sign this petition if you oppose water fluoridation.

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We, being citizens of and/or having job placement in Wautoma, WI do not want our water to be poisoned with hazardous industrial waste such as fluoride, under the guise of promoting healthy teeth.

We ask that this dangerous, ineffective, and unnecessary chemical be removed from our water in the interest of public health. It is unlawful to force our community to ingest any sort of medication without our informed consent; which has clearly been violated by this practice.

Without any medically acceptable study proving that ingesting fluoride is either safe or effective, in addition to this drug not being approved by the FDA it is no longer acceptable to simply rely upon endorsements from agencies that continue to ignore the large body of scientific evidence on this matter.

We are calling upon you, our local officials, to see the truth and take the lead in protecting the health of our citizens.

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In 1992, speaking on the Canadian television program Marketplace, former United States Environmental Protection Agency scientist Robert Carton claimed that "fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century."

The rates of dental decay in areas with unfluoridated water are statistically equivalent to those with fluoridated water, proving that water fluoridation is unnecessary for the prevention of tooth decay.

Fluoride's ability to damage the brain represents one of the most active areas of research on fluoride toxicity today.

Fluoride can be one of the most volatile and active harmful chemicals in the body. Fluoride can attack mercilessly, against any age group, but its effects are especially harmful to developing children and the elderly.

Fluoride is known to cause dental fluorosis, a defect of the tooth enamel caused by fluoride’s interference with developing teeth. Its visible signs are mottled or yellowed teeth. Nearly 30% of children drinking fluoridated water suffer from dental fluorosis on two or more teeth (Hileman, 1988).

Fluoride confuses the immune system and causes it to attack the body's own tissues, and increases the tumor growth rate in cancer prone individuals.

Fluoride is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Fluoride enters the brain and enables aluminum to cross the blood-brain barrier, resulting in increased risk for these diseases.

Fluoride has also been associated with low IQ and mental retardation in children (Hileman, 1988).
The research on fluoride and the brain has been fueled by 18 human studies from China, India, Iran, and Mexico finding elevated levels of fluoride exposure to be associated with IQ deficits in children.

Fluoride can cause a crippling bone disease called skeletal fluorosis. In more mild forms, symptoms of this disease include chronic joint pain, similar to the symptoms of arthritis.

Fluoride disrupts the activity of normally functioning hormones. Fluoride can reduce levels of melatonin, the sleep hormone, in the body, causing chronic insomnia (Hileman, 1988).

Most European countries have now rejected the process of water fluoridation. Their children’s teeth have not suffered from this rejection. The cost/benefit ratio of fluoridated water no longer warrants the presence of fluoride in drinking water.

A 2001 study found that "fluoride, particularly in toothpastes, is a very important preventive agent against dental caries," but added that "additional fluoride to that currently available in toothpaste does not appear to be benefiting the teeth of the majority of people."

Research shows fluoridation is unnecessary since we're already receiving 300% or more of the American Dental Association's recommended dosage. We are wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year fluoridating our water when it is completely unnecessary, unethical and dangerous.

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In July of this year, the United Nations declared access to clean water a human right. 41 nations abstained from supporting the resolution.

The subject of water fluoridation has been controversial for decades. Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s and, three scientists have now confirmed the wisdom of that decision in their book (released October 2010) 'The Case Against Fluoride'.

"Our children have not suffered greater tooth decay, as World Health Organization figures attest, and in turn our citizens have not borne the other hazards fluoride may cause. In any case, since fluoride is readily available in toothpaste, you don’t have to force it on people.” ~ Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology (2000) and Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University of Gothenburg".

On the eve of the new millennium, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), listed water fluoridation as one of the twentieth-century’s 10 greatest public-health achievements. Yet according to the authors of this painstakingly researched expose of fluoridation’s overall ineffectiveness and toxicity, endorsements such as these from the CDC and other health organizations are motivated more by face-saving politics than credible research.

“Fluoridation advocates who have previously branded detractors as conspiracy theorists and shills for junk science will be hard pressed to debunk the hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and sound scientific reasoning presented here.”

Many scientists oppose adding such a toxic substance to our main drinking supply, yet powerful forces keep our water fluoridated. A short 30-minute film, Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation, provides some chilling information. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7547385139152764985&hl=en

Any beneficial effect from fluoride on teeth is only topical. As one scientist put it, “If you want to prevent sunburn, you don’t drink suntan lotion. You put it on your skin.”

Yet, fluoridated municipal water exposes our internal organs to a toxic substance. Children are especially vulnerable, because the blood-brain barrier is not fully developed. Fluoride lowers intelligence. One in three US adults has arthritis, which is a symptom of skeletal fluorosis. Fluoride also causes depression and lethargy, they report.

The World Health Organization advised that a third of US children suffer from dental fluorosis caused by too much fluoride intake.

Both the book, The Case Against Fluoride, and the film, Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation, provide citizens with sound science to use when demanding that city officials end this “unethical, unnecessary, ineffective and dangerous” practice.

FLUORIDATION FACTS:

Scientifically advanced and health conscious countries such as Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden have totally rejected fluoridation.

There has never been a scientific study in Australia or the world to prove the safety of fluoridation.

Fluoride is a poison that accumulates in your body and one-third of a teaspoonful of sodium fluoride is estimated to be a lethal dose.

Fluoridated toothpaste can contain up to 1500 ppm of fluoride. There is enough in one tube to kill a child!

Nature knows best. There is virtually no fluoride in mothers' milk. A bottle-fed baby on formula food reconstituted with fluoridated water, receives 700% above NHMRC and WHO suggested maximum safe daily intake of fluoride for babies. Many world medical scientists consider the fluoride intake should be zero.

The Tasmanian Royal Commission (1968) and the Victorian Inquiry (1980) estimated 10% of children in fluoridated populations will suffer dental fluorosis, i.e. mottled teeth. The latest research shows 48%.

The British Medical Research Council, the American Medical Association and Australia's NHMRC state that dental fluorosis is the first sign of chronic fluoride poisoning.

ALSO SEE:
http://www.fluorideaustralia.org/
http://www.fluoridefreewater.ie/
http://www.fluoridefreemurray.org/
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21461

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97% of western Europe has chosen fluoride-free water.

Contrary to previous belief, fluoride has minimal benefit when swallowed.

Fluoridated water is no longer recommended for babies.

There are better ways of delivering fluoride than adding it to water.

Ingestion of fluoride has little benefit, but many risks.

The industrial chemicals used to fluoridate water may present unique health risks not found with naturally-occurring fluoride complexes.

Water fluoridation’s benefits to teeth have been exaggerated.

Fluoridation poses added burden and risk to low-income communities.

Due to other sources, many people are being over-exposed to fluoride.

Fluoride is the only chemical added to drinking water for the purpose of medication (to prevent tooth decay). All other treatment chemicals are added to treat the water (to improve the water's quality and safety - which fluoride does not do). This is one of the reasons why most of Europe has rejected fluoridation.

In Germany, "The argumentation of the Federal Ministry of Health against a general permission of fluoridation of drinking water is the problematic nature of compulsion medication."

In Belgium, it is "the fundamental position of the drinking water sector that it is not its task to deliver medicinal treatment to people. This is the sole responsibility of health services."

In Luxembourg, "In our views, drinking water isn't the suitable way for medicinal treatment and that people needing an addition of fluoride can decide by their own to use the most appropriate way."

For further information and references please visit www.fluoridealert.org

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Municipalities all across America are currently dripping fluoride chemicals into their public water supply, dosing over a hundred million Americans with a chemical that they claim “prevents cavities.”

What’s interesting here is that this biological effect of “preventing cavities” is a medical claim, according to the FDA. And as such, making this claim instantly and automatically transforms fluoride into a “drug” under currently FDA regulations.

This means that cities and towns all across America are now practicing medicine without a license by dripping liquid medication into the public water supply without the consent of those who are swallowing the medication.

Keep in mind that a medication can only be legally prescribed to someone after they have been diagnosed with a medical need. In other words, a doctor can’t legally prescribe you some pharmaceutical unless he examines you and determines you actually need it. But fluoride is medicating everyone whether they need it or not, without any medical diagnosis whatsoever.

And that means those children or adults who already have high exposure to fluoride (from swallowing toothpaste or drinking fluoridated bottled water, for example) may now be exposed to too much fluoride from the added amounts in the tap water. Excess fluoride can cause serious health problems and since we don't know how much fluoride we are getting, it's impossible to know if we are overdosing.

Other resources to check out:

Fluoride Action Network
www.FluorideAlert.org

Citizens for Safe Drinking Water
www.NoFluoride.com

IAOMT (dentists opposing mercury)
www.iaomt.org

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On the 'Merck Index' we find a GAS called Fluorine - and from the use of this gas in various industries such as aluminum manufacturing and the nuclear industry -certain toxic byproducts are created which have 'captured' fluorine molecules. One such toxic, poisonous 'byproduct' is called sodium Fluoride - which according to the Merck Index is primarily used as rat and cockroach poison and is also the active ingredient in most toothpastes and as an "additive to drinking water".

The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany`s Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride`s supposed effect on children`s teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people in their concentration camps into calm submission. (Ref. book: "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin.)

Careful, bonafide laboratory experimentation by conscientious, patriotic research chemists, and actual medical experience, have both revealed that instead of preserving or promoting `dental health,` fluoridated drinking water destroys teeth, before adulthood and after, by the destructive mottling and other pathological conditions it actually causes in them, and also creates many other very grave pathological conditions in the internal organisms of bodies consuming it.Independent scientific evidence repeatedly showing up over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride allegedly shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one package. There are reports of aluminum in the brain possibly being a causative factor in Alzheimer`s Disease, and evidence points towards fluoride`s strong affinity for aluminum and also its ability to "trick" the blood-brain barrier by looking like the hydrogen ion, and thus allowing chemical access to brain tissue.

Scientists who have attempted to blow the whistle on this mega-bucks PR ploy have consistently been given a very unscientific Black-PR treatment, and thus their valid points disputing the current vested interests never arrive in the press. A civilized nation that would persuade any so-called "doctors" to add a deadly poison voluntarily to its drinking water systems is unbelievable. It is the height of criminal.

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If you still believe the myth that fluoride is good for your children’s (and your) teeth, think again. There are a vast number of scientific research studies confirming the opposite – that fluoride is a toxin that is extremely detrimental to your body, your brain, and even to your teeth.

One of the most active research areas today is fluoride’s ability to damage your brain. Recent human studies from China have confirmed the results of previous animal studies; that elevated fluoride exposure leads to reduced I.Q. and an increase in behavioral issues in children (ADD, ADHD, depression and learning disabilities of all kinds).

Fluoride exposure has been linked to many health problems, including hip fractures, neurological damage, ADD/ADHD, lead poisoning, Alzheimer's Disease, birth defects, skeletal fluorosis, dental fluorosis, early onset of puberty, immune system suppression, thyroid dysfunction (weight gain!), bone cancer and other rare forms of cancer.

As award-winning journalist, Christopher Bryson details in his book, The Fluoride Deception, fluoridating water began in the mid 1940’s as a solution to fluoride pollution, generated by the Atomic Bomb Program, and the aluminum industry.

Starting it off with the discovery, that a natural form of fluoride (fluorite a natural form of calcium fluoride) seemed to strengthen teeth, industry lobbyists were able to convince government that drinking toxic chemical fluoride compounds – the waste materials from fluoride-polluting industries – would be good for us. We now understand it changes the main mineral in tooth enamel, hydroxyapatite, into a more-decay resistant material called fluorapatite, New research has found that the fluorapatite layer formed in this way is only 6 nanometers thick -- meaning it would take almost 10,000 such layers to span the width of a human hair. According to Science Daily, "The scientists question whether a layer so thin, which is quickly worn away by ordinary chewing, really can shield teeth from decay".

After analyzing hundreds of fluoride studies, researchers found that fluoride: Alters endocrine function, especially in the thyroid,Causes dental fluorosis in young children,May lower IQ,May increase the risk of bone fractures,Because scientific evidence suggests that water fluoridation is ineffective and dangerous to health, over 1,200 professional are now urging Congress to stop water fluoridation. Source Reuters January 2, 2008.

Instead of risking increasing lawsuits from farmers whose crops and cattle were dying downwind, or having to spend enormous amounts of money to dispose of these chemicals safely, they were now able to SELL their waste material as a “health” product!

In response to questions from a Congressional subcommittee in 1999-2000 it was noted that the industrial grade waste products used to fluoridate over 90% of America's drinking water supplies (fluorosilicate compounds) have never been subjected to toxicological testing nor received FDA approval for human ingestion.

The Fluoride in Saskatoon's water is not approved by the FDA (The Federal Drug Administration of the US.) We would like to have the choice of whether or not our children are essentially forced to consume this drug via our tapwater.

Consider that basic sodium fluoride, (which is a far simpler toxin than the fluoride compounds used for most water fluoridation) is also used for:

* Rat and cockroach poisons
* Anesthetics
* Hypnotics
* Military nerve gas (sarin)
And we drink this??

Not only is fluoride extremely dangerous as it accumulates in our bones over time it is extremely hard to remove and basic home filtration systems will not get it out. Reverse osmosis or drink a neural toxin! We are being medicated without our consent. 8 Canadian cities have already been successful at getting the fluoridation of there municipal water stopped- let us be next!

Want more info? See:
www.fluorideaction.ca
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?v=wall&gid=262755035215
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/23/Whos-Really-Guarding-Your-Water-Supply.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/11/22/fluoride-damages-your-brain.aspx
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7319752042352089988#

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We are extremely alarmed and angrily concerned about the fluoride that is being dumped in our water supply.

Fluoride is a known Toxin it has been identified as a toxin and is linked to various cancerous chemicals, studies have also shown that it does absolutely nothing for the teeth and gums and out of 1 in 3 children it's known to cause discoloration and irreversible damage to the teeth enamel.

In a major report written by the National Academy Of Sciences it states that toxic levels can lead to severe pitting of the teeth enamel in children. Fluoride can also build up in the bones to cause pain, stiff joints and skeletal abnormalities. Such findings are in alignment with not just a measly minority group of sceptics but is backed up by 600 world renowned scientists some of which have made their point and stated the obvious for the record in their professional opinion thus they made it very clear that any dosage of this vile chemical is inexcusable whether it is 1.5mm or 1.0 mm this is why most major bottled water companies such as Volvic and Evian do not dump fluoride in their water for their consumers. If it was so safe surely they would be placing fluoride in every single product.

We see this as criminally negligent and demand the immediate and complete removal of fluoride from our drinking water supply.

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Fluoride is a potent poison. In toxicology texts it is classified with cyanide, and it is a potent enzyme inhibitor. The amount of fluoride contained in a tube of toothpaste is enough to kill a child.

Few, if any, communities choosing to add fluoride to drinking water are likely to have looked into the iodine status of local residents as well as aggregate exposures to thyroid disrupting compounds, including fluoride, from all sources combined. Yet, collectively, these factors are undeniably relevant to brain development of children born in those communities. Regrettably, the CDC's discussion of the safety of fluoride in drinking water does not even mention potential impacts on the developing brain.

With respect to current and historical perspectives, the NAS committee noted that, on average, fluoride exposure from drinking water in fluoridated communities is near or exceeds the level that raises health concerns.[15] That is, virtually no "margin of safety" exists between levels of fluoride intended to be beneficial and those that may be harmful.

Several studies of children in Chinese communities with fluoride drinking water levels of 2.5-4 ppm consistently show significantly lower IQ levels compared to children in communities with minimal fluoride in drinking water.[11] These studies were controlled for other contributory factors.

To the extent that fluoride helps to prevent tooth decay or slow its progression, the predominant advantage is from topical application rather than through ingestion.

Tooth decay has markedly declined in countries and communities that do not fluoridate drinking water as well as in those that do. Dramatic increases in the use of topically-applied fluoride-containing oral hygiene products are likely to have played a role, along with other changes.

I support the over 2,000 medical, dental, scientific, and environmental professionals calling for an end to fluoridation and a new Congressional Hearing on Fluoridation. See link to "Professionals' Statement" at the Fluoride Action Network home page: http://FluorideAction.net/

The professionals cite the landmark 2006 National Research Council (NRC) report on fluoride in water that identified many adverse health effects associated with exposure to fluoride. Based on the concentration levels reported to be harmful, there is clearly no adequate margin of safety to protect against these adverse effects for the 170 million Americans drinking fluoridated water.

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It has been announced that Sheffield City Council are to start adding Fluoride to drinking water and milk for school children under the guise of dental hygiene This is despite the evidence that Fluoride is linked to incidence of Osteosarcoma (bone cancer) especially in young boys.

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Between 2002 and 2005 the 1500 member National Treasury Employees Union, chapter 280, representing scientists at the EPA, asked the U.S. Senate, the House, and the EPA to finally authorize and fund a study of fluoridation’s effects on the environment, animals, and people because so much evidence has been observed in the past 10 years to warrant the discontinuance of fluoridation. The official NTEU position paper on fluoride can be found at

http://www.nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/fluoridesummary.htm

Because each state or township has their own web of laws mandating fluoridation, for instance California's state mandate, it is difficult for citizens to fight such a bureaucracy of power. California voted its mandate without any public comment during the O.J. Simpson trial when the public's attention was on other matters. Some people, such as myself, are allergic to hydrofluorisic acid, so whether it is a good or bad product is irrelevant for us, and herein lies the fallacy of mass medication.

The fluoride molecule is tiny and it takes an expensive whole house reverse osmosis filter to filter it completely out, a remedy that many people cannot afford. So they can drink bottled water while absorbing hydrofluorisic acid through their pores when bathing.

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It is widely known that fluoride in tooth paste is poisonous if swallowed, it says on the warning label to call poison control if more than is used to brush is swallowed.

So it is highly unethical and dangerous to the citizens of San Diego County to ingest fluoride in the water that is piped into our homes.

Fluoridated water doesn't have any real contact with teeth in the first place so it will not have a protective effect on teeth. In reality when ingested, especially by young children can harmful to the health.

Fluoridation of the water when ingested causes fluorosis, a decay of the teeth, as well as kidney disease, cancer, and effects on the brain such as alzheimers disease.

Fluoride is an excess waste from manufacturing aluminum and nuclear power plants, it is corrosive and toxic, it should not be put into the public water supply.

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