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# Fluoride in water is ‘grotesque’
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/fluoride-in-water-is-grotesque-editor/
- Published: 2007-01-23T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:53:25.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Joyce Martino Santa Monica*

Thanks very much for the front page press of the fluoridation issue in Santa Monica (“Not all smiles for fluoride treatment,” page 3, Jan. 19). I’ve been as active as possible with the Santa Monicans for Safe Drinking Water.

The idea of adding fluoride to our city water is grotesque.

There already is “naturally occurring” fluoride in our water. What is being added is toxic waste material from the fertilizer/aluminum industries, known as hydrofluo-rosilic acid and sodium fluoride. Plain and simple: Toxic.

What also wasn’t mentioned is that hundreds of cities in the last six years or so are removing and rejecting fluoride from public water. Europe is 98 percent non-fluoridated.

Currently, there is a nationwide movement to ban all water fluoridation, and I only hope I live long enough to see that come to pass.

This is truly a horrible injustice on the innocent public that this toxin is added to our public waters. It is truly all money-driven with profits to the chemical industries as the main goal. We are being chemicaled to disease and death in this country.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 23, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)