Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water
Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water
Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, despite widespread opposition from dentists and national health organizations. Republican Gov.
Summary
Utah became the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water after Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation prohibiting local decisions on fluoridation.
Cox cited cost and personal choice, likening fluoride to government “medication.”
The ban faces opposition from dentists and health experts, who argue fluoride prevents cavities and benefits low-income communities.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans receive fluoridated water. Some cities have already removed fluoride, and a recent court order requires the EPA to regulate high levels that may affect children’s intellectual development.
Natural groundwater already has some fluoride in it; it's the potability processing that takes it away. So of course a lot of places put it back in.
I see the push to remove it in my country, too. People claim is kills children's brains - but the amount of fluoride to do any damage is so insanely high. You would die of literal water poisoning several times over before you ingested enough fluoride.
Literally anything hurts you if you have too much, that's what 'too much' fucking means. Deciding something is bad because it has an unreachable 'too much' is like refusing to eat bananas because of Chernobyl.
The water here is extremely hard and has a lot of lime. Limescale is inevitable. Yet I don't see people complaining about drinking rocks? Who benefits from blaming fluoride? Where is this fear coming from?
Who benefits from blaming fluoride?
Dentists?
Where is this fear coming from?
Idiotic conspiracy theorists.
Why put fluoride in water when you can sell it over the counter with a 1300x mark-up?
This isn't really a right-wing wackadoo thing (or at least not exclusively).
Portland, OR hasn't put fluoride in their drinking water for a VERY long time, with many people citing the fact that they don't want the pristine Bull Run water source tainted.
If you use fluoridated (or even nanosilver particle) toothpaste and/or mouth wash, there isn't really any logical reason to also have it in your drinking water, right?
and you think the people who are pushing for this aren't the same people who insist on using fluoride free toothpaste
Hope they like paying dentist bills.
This would 100% be easily enough to make me move away.
That's a massive negative impact on my child's health. Anyone with more than 1 braincell who lives in Utah right now and wants to raise kids should be considering leaving to live somewhere with fluoride, unless you want your kid to be at risk of a bunch of health issues.
2025: we are bringing fucking Rickets back baby!
Just take the iodine out of salt while we're at it. Don't need no smart thunkers in the Amazon warehouse.
They've already lost the Sundance film festival, what's the difference if they lose all their people?
That's another reason to move away.
There are so many others.
Just wait until they hear what's in toothpaste!
Toothpaste? I just use Vitamin A mixed with ivermectin.
And tea.
Utah dentists:
Water? You mean like in the toilet?
FLOURIDE! It's what toilets crave!
prohibiting local decisions
cited... personal choice
bruh
Looks like conservatives are going to start feeling actual, physical pain due to their poor decisions.
Have fun with rotted teeth.
The fact that this is normal in the US is incomprehensible to my European brain. I don't think the fluoride is harmful, I don't think there's anything nefarious about it all, I just think it's weird to add things to the water supply?
Water coming from the tap should just be ... water? If you want fluoride in it for better dental health, just add it yourself? Or use fluoride toothpaste?
I feel like if you start doing that, you kinda open the door to mass dosing of other "potentially beneficial" agents. And things we think are safe today, may turn out to be unsafe a few decades from now (see lead, plastics and a number of pharmaceutical compounds that turned out to be unsafe later after decades of use).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
Plenty of countries have fluoride in their water. Ultimately, if you brush your teeth, it is a useless policy but if you dont brush your teeth, it helps a little and with 0 negative side effects.
It is a policy that "my individual rights" crowd loves to shit on. Whether individual rights are more important than a minor effect to the health of a few individuals is debatable.
it helps a little and with 0 negative side effects.
Here in the Netherlands we stopped in 1976 because there was an increase in migraines, stomach- and bowel issues and depression ever since fluoride was added to the drinking water supply (+5%).
Toothpaste still has it, but it's cautioned against to use fluoride-enriched toothpaste for children due to studies suggesting a negative effect on brain development. But even with fluoride-enriched toothpaste the amount is being reduced because there appear to be more damaging effects that are lessened in lower dosages, and the health benefits are seemingly not impacted.
it is already accepted that tap water will have chemicals added (at a minimum chlorine) to make it safe to drink, fluoride generally has benefits in small amounts, the amount that the water company addes IMO should be published somewhere accessible so people won't get too much, but removing contaminants from water is far from a new idea in America.
Not the most retarded state yet! That's gotta be Florida or Texas.