USA - As You See It: March 4, 2010

Fluoridation makes no sense in Watsonville

Mr. Mauthe "Fluoride support appreciated," Feb. 26 provides us with quite a segue when he concludes, "an industry is not necessarily good for its city just because the industry itself is successful."

While I imagine the contributions of the Martinelli Co. to the community of Watsonville could be easily quantified and proven to be life-sustaining, a chemical additive such as fluoride is not necessarily good for the body just because it is successful in treating one of its exposures.

To me, municipal water fluoridation is like washing a car with anti-freeze. Just because it's useful when applied to one auto part under extreme conditions, in a climate as temperate as Watsonville's, fluoridation is the wrong medicine applied to the wrong vehicle using the wrong methods for the wrong reasons. Utterly nonsensical.

Anna Vaage, Capitola

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