This past week, Q-line asked: Where do you stand on the water fluoridation issue? Here are your responses: “I’M TOTALLY AGAINST THIS mass-medicating, policy-driven experiment on humans called water fluoridation. Since only about 1 percent of municipal water is consumed by humans as drinking water, the other 99 percent, fluoridated or not, literally goes down the drain and or to the rest of the environment. That official estimate holds a mirror to how senseless and extravagant the fluoridation of the municipal water supply truly is. Next, the U.S. EPA has acknowledged they are unable to identify any chronic toxicological study for the fluoridation chemicals used. Are the MWD and the Santa Monica City Council majority paying attention to that? Obviously not. Many scientists and others warn that the fluoridation chemicals are potentially harmful to the downstream supply chain of humans, wildlife, oceans and our whole environment. The chemical product to be used to fluoridate us is hydrofluosilic acid. Incredibly, it’s a highly toxic hazardous-rated product with contaminants such as lead and arsenic. That grim reality could explain why fluoridationists avoid talking about these “medication” agents. This perceived madness is not a delusion. Will our water providers and major media ever see the light?”
“I THINK IT IS AN UTTER DISGRACE AND criminal behavior on the part of our city government to go ahead with plans to pollute our drinking water with dangerous toxins. Those who want fluoride for their teeth should buy fluoride toothpaste. This is still, for all intents and purposes, a democracy. The majority of the people do not want this addition in their drinking water, but I guess it’s a done deal because all the payoffs have been made.”
“THE COMMIES FROM SANTA MONICA for Renters Rights have sold out our once nice, quiet town to everything else bad, so why not get kickbacks from industry to put industrial waste in our water? So why stop with fluoride, when Santa Monicans for Renters Rights could make billions by adding all sorts of industrial waste to our water? Pesticides and rat poison have been said to work as well as fluoride to kill germs and we know radiation kills everything. We can all have beautiful, glow-in-the-dark teeth and a healthy environment if we just drink all of our radioactive waste and pesticides run off.”
“FLUORIDE SUPPLEMENTS MAY INCREASE bone density, but the resulting bone tends to be fragile. Fluoride supplements do not reduce the risk of fractures. If the end result of saving our teeth only to have osteoporosis later in life, do not expect any help from the medical community. I doubt they care one way or the other. Medical practitioners treat whatever comes their way. Cures are far and few between. I personally say no to fluoride until all the facts are in. If there is anyone out there who truly knows the facts about fluoride contamination, please speak up with the facts in hand.”
“FLUORIDE NEEDS TO BE PRESCRIBED BY a doctor. It is a medicine that shouldn’t be put in our water for everyone to drink. Children may be the most needy, in which case they could be supplied in some other way. Some people, I understand, have negative reactions because of specific health conditions that they have that react negatively to fluoride. Definitely people should-n’t be forced to take fluoride.”
“SINCE THE BOTTLED WATER SALES WILL rise very much if this fluoridation goes through, it’s probably the bottled water industry that is behind it. They get fluoride in the water and their sales go up. They’re the one’s who are pushing it.”
“I CAN UNDERSTAND VACCINATION TO keep people from getting diseases and spreading them, but what I do with my teeth is my business. Fluoride has no business in my drinking water.”
“A BIG NO TO FLUORIDE. THE CITY Council is poisoning us against our will. And each City Council member should be put in jail for this criminal behavior.”
“I CANNOT EMPHASIZE STRONGLY enough how much I’m against putting fluoride in the water. We have no choice. If we have to take vitamins, then we can take vitamins. But if it is in our water, we have no choice. It has been said time and time again that this not a healthy thing to do to people. I am very upset and angry that they are still continuing to move forward with this stupid and expensive project in face of our opposition. I don’t understand.”
“I AM DEAD-SET AGAINST THIS fluoridation issue because, over a period of years, reports that show fluoridation causes osteoporosis in senior citizens. So please, please don’t put it in the water. We would like to encourage the children to eat better, to brush their teeth and get a better diet so they won’t have any cavities. We care about them too, believe me.”
“I AM ABSOLUTELY AGAINST THIS MASS medication, adding fluoride to our public waters. I have been from the beginning. I have studied this issue for well over 20 years and it’s gross that this is happening and it’s … just grotesque. It’s amazing people in our city are not well informed about this and rallying against it.”
“I BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF CHOICE. I DO not want to have fluoride imposed on me. What may be good for you is not good for me.”
“REGARDING WATER OFFICIALS DECIDING to mix fluoride in the Santa Monica water supply: Let’s think about it this way. In this post-9/11 era, do we really want anyone putting anything into our water supply?”
“ADDITIONAL FLUORIDE INTO OUR WATER supply … has proven to be a safe, economic and efficient way to fight decay. Fluoride has been introduced in many communities and has reduced tooth decay, especially in children, by at least 50 percent or more. I would assume that the officials who are going to supervise the fluoridation of our water would know the natural concentration and would add the appropriate amounts … There is no need for panic over fluoridation.”
“I AM ADAMANTLY OPPOSED TO additional fluoridation in Santa Monica. The use of fluoride is a personal decision. Please don’t remove my freedom to choose.“
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 1, 2007. Read the original PDF.