While pharmaceuticals have become unintended regulars within our drinking water supplies, there’s a chemical that’s been deliberately added to the water solely for the purpose of medication. The drug is fluoride, and by this action, governments have denied us the right to choose whether or not a medication is something that we’d like to utilize.

While most Americans have come to believe in fluoride’s topical ability to prevent tooth decay, a recent flood of scientific studies and observations by dentists and anthropologists (without industry ties), have found there to be no difference between the amount of tooth decay in fluoridated and unfluoridated countries; as well as no increase in tooth cavities when fluoridation has been stopped. Once ingested, damages to: the brain (such as dementia and lowered IQ’s), thyroid gland, bones, and kidneys are possible.

Then why is this chemical in our water? Fluoride’s story begins with its tendency to rise up as a vapor through smoke stacks of the phosphate fertilizer industry when raw phosphate ore comes into contact with sulfuric acid. In the 1940’s, it would spread throughout the air for miles – burning plants, dwarfing their survivor’s size and yields, and causing a condition called fluorosis that inflicted cows with swollen joints, falling teeth, and pain until death. Technology solved this problem with the introduction of “wet scrubbers” that could be placed within the stacks to capture the chemical before escaping into the air. Classified “hazardous waste” it could then be transported completely unrefined to communities paying them for its use within their water supplies; “wasting” it while washing cars, flushing toilets, and doing the dishes.

Seems a bit outrageous, huh. Dr. J. William Hirzy, a Senior Vice-President of the EPA Headquarters Union agrees with you, stating back in 2000 that, “If this stuff gets out into the air, it’s a pollutant; if it gets into the river, it’s a pollutant; if it gets into the lake it’s a pollutant; but if it goes right into your drinking water system, it’s not a pollutant. That’s amazing… There’s got to be a better way to manage this stuff.”

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