Councilman Peter Vallone of Astoria has taken up the fight against water fluoridation in New York City’s drinking water. Adding fluoride to the drinking water, the Councilman says, “[A]mounts to forced medication by the government. What’s next? They decide we’re depressed and add Prozac to our drinking water?”
Critics were quick to point out in December of last year that adding fluoride is supposed to help prevent cavities and thus make taxpayers healthier, at a cost of $7M per year. One smear piece screams that Vallone “wants your teeth to rot,” while another recommends “fitting the councilman for a tinfoil hat.”
Naturally, the arguments presented by the critics are sensationalized and do not address the valid concerns of Councilman Vallone. Namely, what right do experts, elected officials or even dentists have to make a citizen ingest fluoride? Less than a month later, an article in the Daily News recognized a new study questioning the ‘appropriate’ level of fluoride. The Health Department, the article notes, will “ensure that New Yorkers receive an optimal amount of fluoride through drinking water.”
Clearly, those benevolent watchdogs in the media immediately jump to the question of whether fluoride is safe for consumption at the levels it is currently found in our drinking water. They ignore the question of whether the government has either the right or the responsibility to add fluoride to drinking water at all. Councilman Vallone, on the other hand, plans to introduce a bill to eliminate fluoride altogether from drinking water. We’ll be sure to follow its progress.
New York City Liberty Action Group 
Thank you for taking an interest in Fluoridation. New Yorkers need to know that 1) fluoride is neither a nutrient nor required for healthy teeth; 2) the fluoridation chemicals added to NYC’s water supply are lead and arsenic-laced waste products of the phosphate fertilizer industry (hydrofluosilicic acid); 3) Modern science indicates that ingesting fluoride does not not reduce tooth decay but does expose individuals to fluoride’s adverse health effects such as bone, tooth and thyroid damage.
More than 3,600 professionals (including 303 dentists) urge that fluoridation be stopped citing scientific evidence that ingesting fluoride is ineffective at reducing tooth decay and has serious health risks. See statement: http://www.fluoridealert.org/statement.august.2007.html
Eleven US EPA unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals are calling for a moratorium on fluoridation.
The CDC reports that 225 less communities adjusted for fluoride between 2006 and 2008. About 100 communities rejected fluoridation since 2008. http://www.FluorideAction.Net/communities.htm
— Fairbanks, Alaska Fluoride Task Force advises ceasing fluoridation (March 15, 2011)
— The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends NO fluoride supplementation and advises, that “If children brush their teeth twice daily, they do not need fluoridated bottled water.” Winter 2011
— A bipartisan group of Tennessee legislators urge the TN Health Department to stop promoting fluoridation. (Feb 14, 2011) (22)
— The Centers for Disease Control reports that over 41% of 12-15 years olds are afflicted with dental fluorosis due to fluoride over-exposure. But no one is researching fluoride’s effects to their bones.
— The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water will lower safe water fluoride levels because of concerns that fluoride adversely affects bones and teeth. (January 2011)
— The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pesticides proposes to ban fumigant sulfuryl fluoride because of the concern of harmful levels of fluoride residues on foods . (Jan 2011)
— The 25th study linking fluoride to lowered IQ is in the December 25, 2010 Journal of Hazardous Material (The relationships between low levels of urine fluoride on children’s intelligence, dental fluorosis in endemic fluorosis areas in China)
— On April 12, 2010, Time magazine listed fluoride as one of the “Top Ten Common Household Toxins” and described fluoride as both “neurotoxic and potentially tumorigenic if swallowed.”
— State University of New York researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 9, 2009 in Philadelphia.
— The National Kidney Foundation dropped its fluoridation support replacing it with this caution: “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.”
for more info http://www.FluorideAction.Net
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