On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, donald mclaughlin wrote:
> In article <asolovyo.823102389 at nickel>,
> ariadna a solovyova <asolovyo at nickel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> >In <4enu8j$n5n at newsbf02.news.aol.com> trekkerjoe at aol.com (TrekkerJoe) writes:
> >
> >>Oh, yeah, what the bloody heck does our FREEDOM have to do with any of
> >>this!?
> >
> >Freedom is choice. You can choose whether to eat broccoli or not
> >(broccoli prevents cancer, remember?). You CANNOT choose whether to have
> >fluoride in your water; you are NOT FREE in this matter. Let people who
> >want fluoride get it for themselves at the pharmacy. Of course, there are
> >people who would force broccoli on everyone if they could. I can't speak of
> >them without shudder: I'm from a former socialist country.
> >
> >Ari
>> This is really exciting... and "they" put iodine in our salt
> too!! Just who do they thing they are!! ; )
I completely agree, in spirit, with Donald. Unfortunately, Ari is
"foaming at the mouth" about freedom but fails to see that he, in fact,
does have *freedom of choice* in this matter - if he doesn't want his water
to be fluoridated, buy bottled water. We did when we lived in Calif only
because the L.A. water tasted wierd and murdered numerous coffee pots with
all the calcium salts.
This scare is along the lines of the fear of fluorsecent light bulbs as
well - and yes, iodine in our salt!
Fluoride should stay in the water else many of us will make more frequent
trips to our local dentists, particularly our "candy-eating" children.
The individual heading this venture to remove fluoride should seek out the
fluoride data from the Am. Dental Agencies and re-think his position
(please do not waste my time with bogus ADA/fluoride/dentists conspiracy
theories).
David
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