A Florida county has voted to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water after a polarizing debate that included warnings of reduced intelligence, cancer, Soviet-style tactics and forced medicating by government. The Pinellas County Commission voted 4-3 to halt fluoridation to about 700,000 residents of the county, the St. Petersburg Times reports. The city of [...]
14 Conspiracy Theories That The Media Now Admits Are Conspiracy Facts August 24, 2011 Print Version By Michael Snyder – BLN Contributing Writer How many times have you heard the mainstream media dismiss certain points of view as “conspiracy theories”? It seems as though one of the easiest ways to brush something off is to label [...]
Iodine-131 also found in Philadelphia-area sewage plants; July 22nd, 2011 (ENENews) – Cancer patients’ urine suspected in Wissahickon iodine-131 levels, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21, 2011: Since [early April], officials have found more iodine-131 in the Wissahickon, and at several sewage treatment plants along the creek. [...] The source they now suspect was a surprise. Iodine-131 [...]
What Dow Chemical Doesn’t Want You to Know About Your Water (VIDEO) Share | June 11, 2011 Print Version Source: Civil Eats – Anna Lappé Community members in another Midland—Midland, Texas—filed suit earlier this year against Dow and three other companies for contaminating groundwater there with hexavalent chromium. Barred from use in the European Union [...]
Texas Officials Covered Up Dangerously Radioactive Tap Water for Years November 15th, 2010 Via: Raw Story: Texas officials charged with protecting the environment and public health have for years made arbitrary subtractions to the measured levels of radiation delivered by water utilities across the state, according to a series of investigative reports out of Houston. [...]
NY City Officials: Tap Water Shows Elevated Lead Levels (Warning Issued for Entire Water Supply) (AP Photo) DEP: Run cold for 30 seconds before cooking, drinking CBS New York NEW YORK (CBS 2/1010 WINS) — Whether you live in a house or an apartment, this could impact your life. There’s a water warning in New [...]
And Now… Cheap Fluoride from China Leaves Unknown, Insoluble Residue in Municipal Water Systems October 29th, 2010 Update: Multiple Tests Can’t Determine What The Material Is? Via: The Daily News (Newburyport) on Fluoride Action Network: Desmarais said while soluble sodium fluoride has traditionally proved easy to dissolve and add to the water supply, in recent [...]
The Case Against Fluoride: Toxifying the Tap By Rady Ananda The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There In July of this year, the United Nations declared access to clean water a human right. The United States was among 41 [...]
The food industry, like Big Pharma, controls the FDA and USDA Published on 09-20-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Natural News The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently released a report highlighting the widespread influence of the food industry over food safety policies. According to the study, at least a quarter of those [...]
City receives citation for not fluoridating water Published on 08-23-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Register Pajaronian The City of Watsonville has been cited by the California Department of Public Health for failure to comply with an order by the state to fluoridate the water supply. The citation was received by the city [...]
Photo: Jenny Downing (CC) The Los Angeles Times is running a very angry editorial mocking Californian citizens who are resisting government attempts to place fluoride in their water supply. If I had a subscription to the LA Times, I’d cancel it now – check this out: During the Middle Ages, pogroms throughout Europe were instigated [...]
January 4th, 2010 The piece says that television isn’t a factor, but keep this USA Today article in mind: A study released Monday adds to the debate over whether television impairs children’s language development. It found that parents and children virtually stop talking to each other when the TV is on, even if they’re in [...]
RNewswire-USNewswire/ — Achieving cavity-free status has little to do with fluoride intake, reports a study in the Fall 2008 Journal of Public Health Dentistry. The ongoing Iowa Fluoride Study (IFS), begun in 1992, follows a cohort of children from birth. Researchers measure fluoride use and ingestion, count cavities and document fluorosis – white spotted, yellow [...]
