On 11/16/2010 12:47 PM, Bryan Sant wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Von Fugal<[email protected]> wrote: >>> It's worse that you think. Do you realize that in addition to >>> fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, >>> flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. > I'll bite. Fluoride is toxic. Read the warning label (which the FDA > now requires) on a tube of toothpaste sometime. > > Does fluoride help prevent tooth decay? Yes. Do unsafe levels of > fluoride cause brittle bones (and very high doses can even cause death > in small children)? Yes. I drink a gallon of water a day. So how > about I be granted the chance by our magnanimous government to choose > if I want to swallow a toxic substance. Too much to ask? > > Applying a safe amount of fluoride to my teeth topically, and then > spitting the excess out when I'm done is good. > Being forced to swallow a powerful insecticide every time I feel thirsty is > bad. > > I find it curious that progressives/statists are outraged that a > corporation like McDonald's provides parents an opt-in choice to feed > their children a high-calorie/high-salt/high-trans fat meal (while > certainly a poor nutritional choice (*** DING, DING, DING *** -- key > word of the day is CHOICE), it's not potentially lethal), but they're > totally cool with the state fluoridating the drinking water supply and > forcing all citizens to drink a known-to-be-dangerous toxic substance. > Nice. > > Progressives blow. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > If someone has a better alternative to Florine/Chlorine in drinking water to kill off lethal bacteria in civic drinking water that isn't "toxic" and won't bankrupt every city and state government i'm all ears.
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