Major US Victory Against Water Fluoridation: Let’s Use It in the UK
In February, I wrote scathingly about the UK government’s decision to expand water fluoridation in the UK. Fluoride is a toxin, and the government knows it’s a toxin. It is up to you how you wish to characterise the government’s action, but when the government knows that its actions are harming us and yet doubles down on harmful action despite the evidence, I characterise that as state terrorism.
Just in from Jessica Funk’s Unpacking The Truth is the good news that a major legal battle in the fight against water fluoridation has been won in the US. A group of non-profit plaintiffs, including Fluoride Action Network (FAN), sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the risk posed to the developing brain by the practice of water fluoridation. After a 7-year legal battle, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has just ruled in favour of the Fluoride Action Network and the plaintiffs:
“Specifically, the Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter (“mg/L”) – the level presently considered “optimal” in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children…the Court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response...One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk." [emphasis added]
My initial concern about how the EPA and other water authorities will choose to interpret and respond to this ruling relates to concentration levels which are specifically mentioned in the ruling’s introduction. However, any attempt to manage the ruling by reference to concentration levels would be a deception, and should be strenuously rejected. As I pointed out in my February piece:
“Fluoride is a toxin and the only defence that its proponents have left is that its harm is dose dependent. They then argue that keeping the concentration in the water below a certain level mitigates high dosing, which is complete nonsense because the dose depends on how much water you drink and not the concentration of fluoride in the water. Part of toxicology 101 is that concentration and dose are not the same thing.”
We must settle for nothing less than an end to fluoridation on the basis that it is a risk, and only the individual has the right and responsibility to manage that risk, not the state.
The US ruling is a victory and should be celebrated. If you are in the UK campaigning against your local council over the fluoridation issue, you should arm yourself with the details of this judgement. UK authorities will have to justify why they think fluoride is good for humans in the UK but dangerous for humans in the US. Ultimately, as I explained in a follow-up piece, it is humiliating to find ourselves in the position of having to plead with tyrants in government to stay out of our bodies.
Tune in to FAN’s upcoming press releases to arm yourself with more details.
Links:
https://fluoridealert.org/
https://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/proponent_claims.pdf
Excellent news! Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Rusere.
“the level presently considered “optimal” in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children…” — Proof that the dumbing-down of humans isn't just a software thing, but also a hardware thing.