Jonathan Benson
Natural News
Oct 28, 2012
Roughly 85,000 fewer people living in North America will be forced to
drink and bathe in fluoridated water, thanks to four recent community
victories preventing or overturning water fluoridation mandates. The
towns of O’Fallon, Missouri; Rosetown, Saskatchewan; Lake View, Iowa;
and Cassadaga, New York are all now officially fluoride-free, proving
that individuals really do have the power to step up and protect
themselves against one of the most ridiculous folklores of the past
century to be thrust on the people in the name of public health.
As reported by the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), which has
tabulated more than 70 community victories against fluoride across North
America since 2010, a single citizen activist concerned about the
safety of fluoride was able to persuade the City Administrator of
O’Fallon, MO, population 80,000, to discontinue the town’s water
fluoridation program. The town’s 2012 budget report states that the
change will save the town $18,000 annually, and reduce the hazard for
water operators who will no longer “have to handle the dangerous
chemical on a regular basis.”
In Rosetown, SK, the failure of a fluoride feed pump was enough to
scrap the outdated practice of water fluoridation, while water
fluoridation’s high cost with lack of economic and societal benefit
convinced the city council of Lake View, IA, to discontinue the
pointless practice. And in Cassadaga, NY, local citizens rejected a
proposal to fluoridate by an 87 percent margin, even after the town had
already built a special shed to begin housing and pumping fluoride
chemicals into the water supply.
Portland voters soon to vote on water fluoridation
In Portland, Oregon, where rogue city council members and Mayor Sam Adams recently forced through a fluoridation mandate against the will of the people,
more than 43,000 local citizens signed a petition to force the issue to
a public vote. As of this writing, these signatures are still being
counted — but since only 19,858 were required to get the issue on the
ballot, the issue will almost surely be put up for a public vote.
And in New York City, where councilman Petter Vallone, Jr. has been working feverishly to end water fluoridation in America’s largest city,
a resolution has been introduced to require that a warning about
fluoride’s dangers for infants be printed on individual water bills.
Both Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the entire state of New Hampshire
recently passed similar requirements for infant warning labels on water
bills.
Two Florida communities reconsider water fluoridation
Lastly, both the Greater Pine Island Water Association,
which serves the area of St. James City near Fort Myers, Florida, and
the Ormond Beach City Commission, also in Florida, are also
reconsidering their existing fluoridation mandates. The former group
will have its members vote on the issue, while the latter group has
already approved a referendum that will allow voters to decide the issue
in an upcoming election.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.foodconsumer.org
