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what possesses someone to read "brominated" and think "safe" is anywhere in the realm of possibility?

• sokoloff 3y ago
  Replace with “fluoridated” or “chlorinated” and we pipe it into houses and give it to everyone in the household by the glassful. Our table salt is “iodized”. It doesn’t seem so strange that people (including the experts involved in food and food safety) might find it possibly safe.
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  • mschuster91 3y ago
    > Replace with “fluoridated” or “chlorinated” and we pipe it into houses and give it to everyone in the household by the glassful. Y'all are ... weird in that regard by European standards. Our tap water is pure as it comes from the groundwater, spring or whatever other water source; adding chlorine is unheard of outside of short-term contamination issues, and flouride and iodide are generally added into table salt and that's enough. We also don't chlorine wash our chickens or our eggs. In the end I think the difference boils down to the US using chlorine to "mask" the negative effects of penny-pinching (e.g. properly maintaining water mains, not letting farm animals practically live inside their feces, and following GMP standards in slaughterhouses), while European culture and legislation is proactive instead of reactive.