Taken for a ride on fluoride

CONSUMER'S DEMAND!
Mentong Laurel
1/24-29/2011



Our campaign against the power plunderers has gotten off the ground and our colorful car stickers are gradually finding their way to more and more consumers to rouse public sentiment against the continuing con game and larceny.

With us are our comrades, Butch Junia of OpinYon, and others such as Job Bordamonte of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), who both guested in my GNN program last Tuesday. (Incidentally, the FDC is holding its conference on power issues this Jan. 25-26 at the Ciudad Cristhia Resort, San Mateo , Rizal; interested parties may contact Job through 0920-9149561 or jobkevin@yahoo.com.)

As we continue to drum up the crusade for fair electricity rates, we urge all citizens to join the cause. Meanwhile, we’ll focus on another vital consumer issue: The fluoride fraud.

Last January 8, 2011, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a report admitting that 2 in 5 children there show signs of fluoride poisoning, such as streaking, spotting, or pitting of teeth due to dental fluorosis. Hence the CDC has decided that fluoride levels in municipal water supplies be lowered from 1.2 to 0.7 milligrams per liter.

Five decades of putting in increasingly high levels of fluoride in drinking water has come to an end; but the questions have just begun. Since fluoride is really a poison, why wasn’t it completely banned as European governments have done? How can the CDC ever have recommended such high levels of fluoride in public drinking water; and worse, what could it have done to those who’ve used tap water for infant formula?

Even mothers who drink from tap water would also have fluoride in their breast milk! What does this now make of the sales pitch of toothpaste companies that brandish their fluoride content? How did this horrendous fluoride myth begin?

The story is equally shocking, as reporters Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson discovered about the Manhattan Project, the US ’ secret atomic bomb development program. They found that fluoride was a key chemical in atomic bomb production.

“Fluoride was the top chemical hazard of the US nuclear weapons program, not only for workers, but for those living in nearby communities as well,” writes James Donahue in The Great Fluoride Scam. He continues: “The documents show that the first US lawsuits levied against the atomic weapons program were over fluoride poisoning, not radiation damage. The documents reveal that the US government secretly ordered atomic bomb scientists to create ‘evidence useful in litigation’ against defense contractors who were being accused of injuring citizens with fluoride.”

So they created this myth that fluoride is good to allay the public’s fears of the millions of tons of fluoride being dumped in US waters. That’s why toothpaste tubes have a warning printed onto them that any child who swallows more than a pea-size amount of the toothpaste should contact poison control. That poison is fluoride. Brushing with water is enough. And while others may want pastes that contain no fluoride, it’s time to stop buying this poison!

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