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Florida became the second state in the country after Utah to ban local governments from adding fluoride to their public water systems.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill at Simpson Lakes in Dade City – about 38 miles northeast of Tampa – on Thursday. The law is set to go into effect on July 1.
“We certainly now, in our society in 2025, we have the ability to deliver fluoride through toothpaste and all these other things,” DeSantis said at an event for the signing of the bill. “You don’t gotta force it and take away people’s choices. But the whole crux of the issue is you should be able to make decisions on the basis of informed consent.”
“Forcing this in the water supply is trying to take that away from people who may want to make a different decision rather than to have this in water,” DeSantis added.
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Clown car shit
If we are fighting chemicals and letting our water flow pure, add a ban to forever chemicals or PFAs which literally causes cancer and hold them ( 3M, DU Pont) responsible for it
Hey now, you can choose to live in a place without that in your water. /s
The argument DeSantis is making is stupid. You can already buy bottles water with no fluoride in it. How does that not satisfy his argument?
It owns the libs, therefore, it’s good, obviously.
How do I invest in Florida dentistry?
And when are we going to fix the real problem with our water. Too much hydrogen.
They just need to invest in H2Flow.
You mean not enough lead?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
Most European countries including Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland do not fluoridate water.
Out of a population of about three-quarters of a billion, under 14 million people (approximately 2%) in Europe receive artificially-fluoridated water. Those people are in the UK (5,797,000), Republic of Ireland (4,780,000), Spain (4,250,000), and Serbia (300,000).[27]
Don’t the have high levels of fluoride in toothpaste?
Possibly but they are not drinking their toothpaste.
And that’s the difference. Fluoride is good for our teeth. But the US doesn’t have high fluoride toothpaste. These places do.
So put it in the toothpaste?
No can do. Americans eat and swallow too much of toothpaste.
This is the country that has to let people know to not drink gasoline. Or that coffee is hot.
Another victory against the woke forces against tooth decay!!!
Literally the only chemicals any Republicans seem to care about regulating are flouride, progestin, and estradiol.
Cyanide, mercury, and benzene are all fair game.
Clearly Big Fluoride isn’t paying off the right people!
This but unironically.
DOW Chemical could have shut this down with a few Trumpcoin purchases.
don’t forget glyphosate & dioxins
Because Florida didn’t have enough gap-toothed rednecks already….
What if I want dirty air and water? Why would you take that away from me???
Your constituents aren’t informed, you disingenuous polyp.
“informed” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Oxygen causes oxidation.
Get rid of it!
Most developed countries don’t do it either, like he says you can get enough of it from other sources, especially toothpaste.
via Fifty reasons to oppose fluoridation (2004)In Europe, only Ireland, Poland, Serbia, Spain, and the UK fluoridate their water. However, most developed countries, including Japan and 97% of the European population, do not consume fluoridated water. In Europe, only four countries have optional salt fluoridation (Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria), while the majority have neither fluoridated water nor fluoridated salt.
Except it seems like every time a major area ceases water fluoridation the caries immediately increases compared to nearby areas. Until we see some hard benefits from removing fluoride from water that exceeds the benefits of fluoridation there’s no point in giving in to the fearmongering of conspiracy theorists
You’re assuming this is in good faith. It is not. There is no good reason to stop doing it other than to signal to all the crazies and conspiracy whack jobs that they may be on to something.
That’s also not considering the lack of healthcare in the US compared to other developed nations. Fluoride in the water supply is doing way more heavy lifting here than in Europe.
Uh oh better tell the Republicans they are doing something… European! Sounds like closet libs to me!
Once again proving Republicans are Fuuuucking stupid.
For the purity of all our natural bodily fluids.
90% of the people that agree with this legislation are living off diet soda, lite beer, and energy drinks - not pure water.
And already lost their teeth years ago.
Hey… 😥
Don’t listen to these fools, your body is a temple. 🙏
This moment of enlightenment brought to you by Mountain Dew Buddha Blast … like a holy hand grenade to your pancreas ™
It’s got electrolytes. It’s what plants crave
Drink water. It’s ok to drink other things, but in moderation.
Is that “hey” as in “Hey, I think this legislation is stupid, but yes, I never drink water and bathing my teeth in high pH drinks all day long”
My teef are fine. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
You got more than one toof? Lucky
Dental plan … no more fluoridated water
Good. Let all of them suffer.
Sorry, not sorry, I don’t give a crap anymore about US citizens. Nothing personal, but you guys let this happen, you guys gave the world trump TWICE. He said he’d fuck all of us over, you laughed, even though you already have seen him do that before, and now you’re all leopard faced.
If you’re an American, then it sucks to be you but you’re getting all that you deserve, enjoy your rotting teeth that you can’t remove because dentists and other healthcare will become unaffordable soon. I don’t care, go suffer in silence
Nothing personal
Sure sounds like it’s personal. But if all of us are to blame then please enlighten us, let’s hear about how you would have prevented Trump from coming to power a second time if you were American.
Soon? It already is
I don’t know the best way of bringing this up, but the Americans complaining about the damage of Trump aren’t the ones who voted for him. They don’t deserve to be doomed to a fate they didn’t choose.
