I was a leading part of an unsuccessful campaign to get fluoride out of the water in a city in Vermont. I went from having no idea about the issue to 'convince

I was a leading part of an unsuccessful campaign to get fluoride out of the water in a city in Vermont. I went from having no idea about the issue to 'convinced' it shouldn't be in the water in an afternoon when I ran into someone (in my same city years before we tried to get it out again) petitioning on the street. The super common sense easy argument is choice. If you are dripping fluoride into the drinking water, you are effectively medicating a population without their consent. I am not so poor as to not be able to buy filtered water and/or a reverse osmosis filtration system, but many families are. Even if I am able, and choose, not to drink the city's water: the local bread I buy, I pasta I cook, virtually everything these days that uses water in its creation process also has fluoride. That is why they are reducing it.. when the .7-1.2 ppm standard was made.. it was based off the total daily dose assuming fluoride would only come from water. It took 60 years to realize total dose is beyond just the tap water drink; the anti-fluoridationists have been saying this from the beginning. There are a bunch of studies linking IQ drops to fluoride exposure. Way before fluoride was a tooth decay miracle, it was an industrial hazard that had Aluminum plants being sued all over the place. Fluoride played a key role in developing the nuclear bomb. In two different ways, it is a fluoride-uranium gas that is run through huge ducts for many miles to slowly enrich uranium; it was fluorocarbons that were able to lubricate the machines that this gas went through (everything else would get eaten by the fluorine). The negative health effects are not hard to find. The only reason this is still a practice is because some powerful organizations reputations are at risk; and if instead of dripping what is literally the scrubber fluid from super-phosphate fertilizer plants into your water slowly, they would have to pay for hazardous waste disposal. I could go on and on. If you want a really good read, check out the Fluoride Deception. The history is amazing. Fluorosis is the moddling of the teeth by fluoride. Fluoride 'works' by changing the mineral structure of your teeth. The fluoro-apatite is more resistant to decay than hydroxy-apatite. This is why fluoride toothpaste and fluoride gels make perfect sense. They work. When you ingest fluoride over long periods of time, the fluoride accumulates not just in your teeth, but in all of the places that have a similar chemical composition to your teeth, namely your bones. If someone's teeth are moddeled you can be sure their bones are too. Indeed, the highest concentrations of fluoride found in humans is not in the bones or the teeth at all, but the bits of calcium in the pineal gland; where it has been measured in the 10,000ppm range (this is due probably to a really high blood flow and large relative surface area). Fluoride is super dirt cheap because it is literally an industrial waste. I don't want to have to drink it. They fight tooth and nail and call it conspiracy theorist when we suggest it is an outdated practice.