It is a fierce debate, and both sides have credit.
I don't want to get too involved though. Certainly adding fluoride to the water is ubiquitous, but there are concerns a lot of us have. I always frame my opinions based on my own life, my own information. So instead of quoting websites, may I? I found it weird when they told me there was fluoride in the water. I remember quite clearly that they told me not to drink the fluoride, as it was bad for me. So one of those two parties kind of has to be full of shit. Either you can drink mouthwash, or we shouldn't be drinking minute levels in our tap water...
And then comes the fact that it is topical. This is again, my own interpretation, I have no web link for it. I thought it up all by my self. Topical medicine, by it's definition has to be placed ON the area, and is most certainly not meant to be ingested. If your back hurts, do you eat an icy/hot patch? No, that would do very little for you hurting back, and make you incredibly sick. So if fluoride is topical, why are we ingesting it? And the pro-fluoride people always go on and on about these two points. How there is a) as much fluoride in the water as something small in the ocean, and that b) it has to work for the brief second it passes past out teeth and them into out digestive systems where is absolutely cannot help our dental health anymore. So if it is such a tiny amount that may or may not do anything productive, how come you want to drink it? Those are not arguments for fluoridation, but against.
And then it comes down to the human level. If you, Eilo, or anyone else chooses to drink fluoridated water, feel free. But if I choose not to drink fluoridated water, what are my options. Literally a reverse osmosis system, or to distill and enrich my own water. If I have to do that, I think I should not have to pay for city water. I would have to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars to have the ability to drink water I am comfortable with. Should I just stop worrying and get on board. Obviously my concerns for drinking what was listed as a toxic waste before becoming a water additive are unfounded.
And if you want to see a creepy side of the fluoride story, look up the Western Oz thing that happened last year or the year before. They were starting fluoridation, and a city worker that had been at the water plant for many, many years quit over it. So then they had a referendum, or a poll, and found that 70% (I am trying to remember, may not be exact) of the locale did not want fluoridated water. So MP's (government people) tried to stop it, and ended up walking out of their posts as well. Stop and think about that. If the water people, the politicians, and the local majority don't want fluoridated water, who is left on the supporting side? When it got rammed through regardless, who made that happen? Creepy.
Thanks,
-Pip
I don't want to get too involved though. Certainly adding fluoride to the water is ubiquitous, but there are concerns a lot of us have. I always frame my opinions based on my own life, my own information. So instead of quoting websites, may I? I found it weird when they told me there was fluoride in the water. I remember quite clearly that they told me not to drink the fluoride, as it was bad for me. So one of those two parties kind of has to be full of shit. Either you can drink mouthwash, or we shouldn't be drinking minute levels in our tap water...
And then comes the fact that it is topical. This is again, my own interpretation, I have no web link for it. I thought it up all by my self. Topical medicine, by it's definition has to be placed ON the area, and is most certainly not meant to be ingested. If your back hurts, do you eat an icy/hot patch? No, that would do very little for you hurting back, and make you incredibly sick. So if fluoride is topical, why are we ingesting it? And the pro-fluoride people always go on and on about these two points. How there is a) as much fluoride in the water as something small in the ocean, and that b) it has to work for the brief second it passes past out teeth and them into out digestive systems where is absolutely cannot help our dental health anymore. So if it is such a tiny amount that may or may not do anything productive, how come you want to drink it? Those are not arguments for fluoridation, but against.
And then it comes down to the human level. If you, Eilo, or anyone else chooses to drink fluoridated water, feel free. But if I choose not to drink fluoridated water, what are my options. Literally a reverse osmosis system, or to distill and enrich my own water. If I have to do that, I think I should not have to pay for city water. I would have to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars to have the ability to drink water I am comfortable with. Should I just stop worrying and get on board. Obviously my concerns for drinking what was listed as a toxic waste before becoming a water additive are unfounded.
And if you want to see a creepy side of the fluoride story, look up the Western Oz thing that happened last year or the year before. They were starting fluoridation, and a city worker that had been at the water plant for many, many years quit over it. So then they had a referendum, or a poll, and found that 70% (I am trying to remember, may not be exact) of the locale did not want fluoridated water. So MP's (government people) tried to stop it, and ended up walking out of their posts as well. Stop and think about that. If the water people, the politicians, and the local majority don't want fluoridated water, who is left on the supporting side? When it got rammed through regardless, who made that happen? Creepy.
Thanks,
-Pip
