Statistics from a study conducted by the New Zealand Ministry of Health suggest that there are no advantages derived from fluoridation. These statistics actually match similar arguments set forth by the American Dental Association.

 

The latter organization conducted a large study on some 39000 American children and found that they did not derive any advantages from the use of fluoride.

 

The process of fluoridation is the practice of adding fluoride minerals to a water source so that people can get exposed to the mineral through drinking water. Some bodies of water already have fluoride in them and do not need fluoride added.

 

The fluoride is allegedly added so that it can help in the prevention of cavity development. The practice of adding fluoride to water is suppose to allow many people, regardless of income, to receive healthy doses of fluoride. Yet, recent studies are revealing that the fluoridation practices do little in terms of cavity prevention, if anything at all.

 

Source World Dental .Org April 30th, 2010

 

 

A very specific form of cancer called Osteosarcoma also known as bone cancer.

"Among males, exposure to fluoride at or above the target level was associated with an increased risk of developing osteosarcoma. The association was most apparent between ages 5-10 with a peak at six to eight years of age.. [T]he results continue to demonstrate an effect after adjusting by zipcode, county population, even use of bottled or well water, age, and any use of self-administered fluoride products. For males, the odds ratio for the high exposure group was 7.20 at 7 years of age with a 95 percent confidence interval of 1.73 to 30.01... All of our models are remarkably robust in showing this effect during the mid-childhood growth spurt, which, for boys, occurs at ages seven and eight years. For females, no clear association between fluoride in drinking water during growth and osteosarcoma is shown in this study... Our results are consistent with findings from the National Toxicology Program animal study which found 'equivocal evidence' for an association between fluoride and osteosarcoma for male, but not female, rats and from two ecological studies that found an association for males less than twenty years old (Hoover et al., 1991; Cohn 1992)."  Source: 2001 Harvard Case-Control Study Finds Strong Correlation between Fluoridation and Osteosarcoma in Boys:

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Fluoride is really unique. It is the only drug that we add to the water supply. Everything else we add to the water is meant to treat the water. Fluoride is meant to treat you, that's what makes it a drug. So what do we know about the effects of fluoride on people? Quite a bit actually and not very much of it is good. The Fluoride Action Network is a web site that indexes news, analysis and studies on fluoride.

Fluoride is unique in another aspect as well. While being used as a drug, it is not isolated and purified like any other pharmaceutical molecule. That's because the fluoride the City of Ottawa adds to our water is not really a drug, it's toxic waste captured in "wet scrubbers" - pollution control devices used by the phosphate industry that processes phosphate rock into phosphate fertilizers. After being captured in the scrubbers, the fluoride (hydrofluorosilicic acid), a classified hazardous waste, is barreled up and sold, unrefined, to communities across the country. Communities add hydrofluorosilicic acid to their water supplies as the primary source of municipal fluoride.

Ottawa's fluoride comes from Jacksonville Beach, Florida.

 

In the past year, prices have doubled for the dwindling supply of fluoride, a byproduct of phosphate mining, said Dixon Weir, the city's manager of drinking water services.

 

"There have been problems noted with the supply chain. We are aware that there are shortages that have been reported in other communities," Mr. Weir said.

 

The water treatment plant in Britannia was forced to stop adding fluoride to its water between March 1 and May 23, he said. Another halt in fluoride supply also occurred there between June 20 and July 16. Interruptions also took place at the Lemieux Island water treatment plant for shorter periods in March and July, Mr. Weir said. Source

The phosphate rock contains fluoride, silica and traces of heavy metals such as uranium, radium, radon and lead. Don't worry about the uranium, radium, radon and lead contamination of our fluoride though, once diluted these elements should have no effects on our health. Right? 

In the past, when the industry let these gases escape, vegetation became scorched, crops destroyed, and cattle crippled. Fluoride is also used as a pesticide. That's right we use fluoride to kill things.

5 to 10 grams is a lethal dose for adults? Is it even accurate to call this toxic waste? Wouldn't the term poison or chemical weapon be more appropriate? We have to have some fluoride, it's an essential element. Right? Maybe not. In this study they worked to eliminate fluoride and still had healthy teeth. 

The damage done to these horses from drinking Colorado fluoridated water is devastating. This video gives evidence of tooth fluorosis, hoof deformities, bone fluorosis, skin disorders, and cancer caused by water fluoridation. Given a choice, the horses will ignore city water and eat snow. [8:25]

The government of Ontario has passed an act delegating to our municipal level of government the decision to fluoridate or not. Water fluoridation is the single most important issue facing us at the municipal level. Do we continue to poison the people of Ottawa, with your tax dollars, or not?