FLUORIDE DATE LECTURE 42 -- NATURAL FLUORIDE VS. FLUOROSILICIC ACID
Calcium Fluoride = Natural Fluoride Fluorosilicic Acid = Industrial Waste
Good afternoon, Mayor Leffingwell and Councilmembers. Today, I’ll explain the difference between natural fluoride and the kind the City of Austin uses for water fluoridation. I need to do that because at last month’s “briefing” before the Council’s Public Health and Human Services Committee, Dr. Huang, the medical director of the Austin/Travis County Health Department, gave out some very misleading information. Dr. Huang began his presentation by assuring us that fluoride occurs naturally in water. (He should have said some water). What he did not tell us is that there’s a world of difference between naturally-occurring fluoride and the man-made kind that’s dumped into our public water supply. Here’s the difference:
This is natural fluoride. It’s calcium fluoride, also called fluorspar. It occurs in the earth in the form of these crystals I'm holding, or very similar ones. It’s about half fluoride and half calcium by weight, and as you see, it can be handled without harm. When it dissolves through natural processes like rain and makes its way into the water you drink, you’re consuming fluoride, a toxin, along with calcium, a valuable nutrient that acts as its antidote.
The fluoride we use for water fluoridation never occurs in nature and it contains no calcium. It’s a liquid, corrosive acid that comes from the wet scrubbers of Florida’s phosphate fertilizer industry, where noxious hydrogen fluoride gas fumes that can’t legally be released into the air are captured in an aqueous mixture of other industrial byproducts, loaded into tank trucks—like the one that recently leaked in Rock Island, Illinois—labeled hazardous, and transported cross country to Austin. You wouldn’t want to touch it.
As it happens, Austin has just signed off on the first one-year extension of our most recent contract with longtime fluoride vendor Lucier—to run from April Fool’s Day of this year through March 31 2012. Only Lucier no longer exists. It was recently absorbed by Mosaic Crop Nutrition, LLC., making it easier to see who our real supplier is, i.e. Mosaic fertilizers, a notorious polluter, which last December was fined $88,000 by the EPA for releasing fluoride fumes into the atmosphere in Mulberry, Florida.
Since the contract—which I’ve read in full—doesn’t require the City of Austin to purchase any specified quantity of fluoride, now would be a good time to declare a one-year moratorium. Thank you.
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Central Florida has miles of huge toxic radioactive waste gypsum. With cooling ponds on top with billions of gallons of gallons of this very acidic contaminated waste water. Also the piles have more billions of gallons in the stacks themselves. During hurricanes rails these can overflow. One went down a sinkhole into our limestone wqter supply about 1995 by Tampa. The smkestack pollution devises were ordered by the EPa about 1972 because of the huge destruction of cattle ,groves and crops downwind of the plants. The grass around old mines remains very fluoride toxic and damages cattle if they graze more then a year. It is a nighmare. The mines also used to capture uraqnium but now do not.
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Many communities in India suffer with high levels of naturally fluoridated water causing skeletal fluorosis, dental fluorosis, kidney problems, and so on. One of their main health challenges is getting the "natural" fluoride OUT of their drinking water. The population often doesn't have the resources necessary to acquire reverse osmosis water filters. Here's an article on a current effort to defluoridate water in India:
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-09/nagpur/29400051_1_fluorosis-environmental-engineering-research-institute-plant
Golda Starr
www.fluoridedetective.com
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Florida phosphate rock has about 200ppm uranium in the rock mined now. Florida did have up to 7 uranium recovery plants with the last closing in about 1999 in Lake Wales. Up to 75% of all us Yellowcake needs had come from this source during the peak. There even had been a new Plant City 200 million recovery plant planned when yellowcake was above 100 dollars a pound. It is on hold now as total production has declined greatly in the last 4 years. This huge amount of radioactive waste is just ignored now in waste piles or much left in phosphoric acid production. That is how they process the rock to rid it of the 4% fluoride which would be toxic to plants for fertilizer. We get to dispose of this city by city in the water supply. The solution to pollution is dilution in industry. That is how the laws are set up. Dilute it then dump it.
With fluoridation they get paid for this toxic brew of pollutants never tested for safety or benefit on humans. Or pets or farm animals.
That is why so many EPA unions have asked congress to halt fluoridation. 19 at last count but starting in 1985. Whistle blowers can be ignored. This is a fluoridegate cover up and now the American trial lawyers are looking to start lawsuits. Dentists especially those that prescribe extra supplements to poor minorities should be first in line. ADA groups have sued in California and elsewhere when cities tried to halt fluoridation.
They should be the first litigated against. They have full knowledge they benefit from the increased damage to enamel. This is a severe conflict of interest.
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