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RandySF

(84,329 posts) Fri Dec 23, 2011, 01:44 AM Dec 2011

Paranoid Township Board ends fluoridation of water. [View all]

Following a two-month debate, the township Board of Trustees voted 5-2 on Tuesday to stop adding fluoride to its water immediately. The township in Livingston County has 368 private water customers, several businesses and schools connected to the system.

Trustee Glenn Harper, who raised the issue, called fluoride a health hazard and said people should decide individually whether to use it. "We should not be making people's health decisions," he said, adding that fluoride supplements could be purchased cheaply.

The federal government has long called fluoridation one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th Century. But earlier this year, the government said a review suggested some Americans might be getting too much fluoride.

http://www.freep.com/article/20111222/NEWS05/112220461/Board-votes-to-end-fluoridation

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Paranoid Township Board ends fluoridation of water. [View all] RandySF Dec 2011 OP

Hope they all have good dental insurance... Sirveri Dec 2011 #1

there's flouride in toothpaste SixthSense Dec 2011 #6

Wrong-ola. PCIntern Dec 2011 #31

In what state is this? jberryhill Dec 2011 #2

Michigan. RandySF Dec 2011 #3

Don't they all just drink out of a lake or something anyway? jberryhill Dec 2011 #7

Close enough ;-) etherealtruth Dec 2011 #28

Good for them KT2000 Dec 2011 #4

Yeah... Eating solid food is highly overrated! jberryhill Dec 2011 #8

Post removed Post removed Dec 2011 #11

Tom's just recently started toothpaste WITH fluoride obamanut2012 Dec 2011 #19

No it isn't. I see lots of Tom's with fluoride. Overseas Dec 2011 #33

Not really KT2000 Dec 2011 #40

Oh, boy! TygrBright Dec 2011 #5

you DO know that fluoride is a byproduct of radioactive things like bombs, etc? StarsInHerHair Dec 2011 #9

Flouride is the ion version of Flourine Confusious Dec 2011 #15

You have to be kidding obamanut2012 Dec 2011 #21

Please research some basic chemistry prior to posting things like this etherealtruth Dec 2011 #25

My first reaction, upon seeing the headline was, "Wow, a whole town of unreconstructed Birchers" . . markpkessinger Dec 2011 #10

But some folks are just trying to reduce their chemical burdens. To be allowed to choose which Overseas Dec 2011 #34

Morans. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #12

I wonder if there has been any credible non-ideologically driven/non-conspiracy theory driven Douglas Carpenter Dec 2011 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Dec 2011 #16

Morris County New Jersey does not use fluoride in its water karynnj Dec 2011 #14

No it is difficult to find a water filter that gets the flouride out. Overseas Dec 2011 #36

I didn't have fluoride in my water Maine-ah Dec 2011 #17

I've lived in rural areas all of my life, and always drank spring or Zorra Dec 2011 #18

For most of my life I have only had spring water BlueToTheBone Dec 2011 #27

I grew up with water that didn't have fluoride obamanut2012 Dec 2011 #20

how do you explain then Maine-ah Dec 2011 #22

Genetics would be my first guess... malthaussen Dec 2011 #23

I would think then that if it's genetics Maine-ah Dec 2011 #24

Ingesting fluoride is just not healthy. MattBaggins Dec 2011 #41

I have no idea obamanut2012 Dec 2011 #39

Next they will ban chemtrails proud2BlibKansan Dec 2011 #26

Mandrake, have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water? PurityOfEssence Dec 2011 #29

HA! originalpckelly Dec 2011 #30

Not paranoid at all Yo_Mama Dec 2011 #32

Thank you for adding some balance to the discussion. Overseas Dec 2011 #37

how dare you SixthSense Dec 2011 #42

Hope they are ready for a surge in denal caries in children taught_me_patience Dec 2011 #35

Chomping on the sugar cane, like I did as a kid, wasn't the main thing. Overseas Dec 2011 #38