.comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}

UK Against Fluoridation

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Animals, too, harmed by fluoride

Animals, too, harmed by fluoride
Recently, a pathologist from Cornell University, posted a YouTube video on horses killed from drinking silicofluoridated water in Pagosa Springs, Colo. During winter, the horses refused to drink city water from their troughs and ate snow instead. In summer, they had no choice and developed severe stomach pain, hoof, bone and teeth defects and allergic skin reactions. ... The Cornell pathologist analyzed tissues, finding severe chronic fluoride poisoning (Krook and Justus, "Fluoride," 2006) ... Town citizens protested, and their water district stopped silicofluoridation, much like the Eskimos who blocked further fluoridation in Alaska after their water district's fluoride poisoning incident in 1994.

In 1985, salmon disappeared from the Columbia River when fluoride discharges elevated the river's levels to only 0.5 ppm. Oregon University researchers found it narcotized salmon, blocking navigation upstream for spawning. After stopping the discharge, the river cleaned itself and salmon returned. Sacramento started fluoridating last year. It's likely involved in the salmon collapse, since fluoride, smaller than the water molecule, cannot be eliminated by filtration before treated water returns to the river. How can anyone justify fluoridation harm to animals and fish populations?

Richard Sauerheber

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home