USA - Letter: Who’s paying for the fluoride push?

• Re: Water changes coming

  The mayor’s decision to put fluoride in the water supply on Jan. 1 has not been democratically approved by the community of Sheridan and Sheridan County. Why haven’t city leaders considered the right to vote on this issue? The citizens of Sheridan County voted fluoride out of the water in 1953.

  New councilmen sympathetic to people who oppose fluoridation of the water will be sworn into office on Jan. 5, yet Mayor Heath could not wait.

  Not only will there be fluoride added to the water, but also close to ten other chemicals, including arsenic.

  The decision is not democratic, doesn’t represent the people, but rather plutocratic-government by the privileged.

  I would then ask:  Who is paying city leadership to push the fluoridation of water into law? We the people need a choice now in 2014.

  Ann Fuller

  Big Horn

  
  

  Nys Cof

  The Pew Foundation is paying the Children's Dental Health Project to push fluoridation on people. The American Dental Association is pouring $500,000 in a social media campaign as a PR stunt to convince legislators and their constituents that they need fluoridation when they don't. We don't don't know who's pushing the buttons of your legislators - but there's lots of money flowing into promoting, instigating (many times in secret) and preserving fluoridation. Boyne City, Michigan legislators were forced to reverse their decision to stop fluoridation after a well-funded campaign by fluoridationists overwhelmed the pocketbooks of those who opposed fluoridation.
  
  However, both Portland Oregon and Wichita Kansas were able to fight off the fluoridationists even though they were way outspent. In the end the truth will come out. Fluoridation is an outdated public health blunder that needs to be abandonec
  
  Politics and money, not science, keeps it afloat

  
  
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  Simeon Hein ·  Top Commenter · Hampshire College

  The argument that community water fluoridation is cost-effective and saves money in terms of dental costs has been refuted in this article by Ko and Thiessen in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2014. http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1179/2049396714Y.0000000093

  
  
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  James Reeves ·  Top Commenter · Culver Military Academy

  Fluoridation is a WASTE of Tax Money
  
  All Civil Engineers and all water managers know that people drink only 1/2% of the water they use. The rest goes directly down the drain in toilets, showers, dishwashers, etc.
  So for each $1000 of fluoride added annually to drinking water, people drink $5 and $995 is wasted down the drain. Children would drink only $0.50 (fifty cents).
  
  That would be comparable to buying one gallon of milk, using six-and-one-half drops of it, and pouring the rest of the gallon in the sink.