FLUORIDE DATE LECTURE #48 - FLUORIDE MAKES AUSTIN CHRONICLE'S TOP 10 ENVIRONMENTAL STORIES OF THE YEAR
Good afternoon, Mayor and councilmembers. It’s 2012, and as you can see, we’re back. I think 2012 will be the year that the citizens of Austin finally shake free of the unsafe and ineffective forced medication we call fluoridated water.
The Austin Chronicle just named water fluoridation one of the top 10 environmental stories of the year: they listed it #7. Recognizing fluoride as the legitimate environmental concern it is, Chronicle news department managing editor Amy Smith wrote that “the issue refuses to die.” She also noted that it has risen to the level of a campaign topic in the forthcoming May Council election.
Her words echoed my husband Walt’s observation that “Councils come and go but the fluoride issue endures.” He makes a good point. Councils change regularly, and in fact, we sometimes have a hand in that change. Come June, this Council may very well look different. But whether or not that happens, we’ll keep working toward our goals because, to quote Victor Hugo, “No army can stop an idea whose time has come.” And abandoning the practice of dumping unrefined toxic waste into the city’s drinking water and calling it medicine is definitely an idea whose time has come.
So we have no choice, really, but to be here. Fluoridation is a health issue affecting all of us.
It’s also fundamentally different from most issues the Council wrestles with. The Council, in its day-to-day proceedings is concerned primarily with finance. It takes money to run a government. So most of the matters before you involve collecting and spending our—the taxpayers’—money. But fluoridation isn’t about spending —on the contrary, it would save money—it’s about health, ours and that of future generations.
Average citizens busy with their lives will put up with a lot. But it’s one thing to make us pay for projects most of us don’t want: toll roads, race tracks, unnecessary water plants, the Red Line, the Domain—and quite another to spike our water with a known poison. It’s a natural place to draw the line So we don’t plan to quit until we finish the job that we’ve started. Thank you, and Happy New Year.
The Austin Chronicle just named water fluoridation one of the top 10 environmental stories of the year: they listed it #7. Recognizing fluoride as the legitimate environmental concern it is, Chronicle news department managing editor Amy Smith wrote that “the issue refuses to die.” She also noted that it has risen to the level of a campaign topic in the forthcoming May Council election.
Her words echoed my husband Walt’s observation that “Councils come and go but the fluoride issue endures.” He makes a good point. Councils change regularly, and in fact, we sometimes have a hand in that change. Come June, this Council may very well look different. But whether or not that happens, we’ll keep working toward our goals because, to quote Victor Hugo, “No army can stop an idea whose time has come.” And abandoning the practice of dumping unrefined toxic waste into the city’s drinking water and calling it medicine is definitely an idea whose time has come.
So we have no choice, really, but to be here. Fluoridation is a health issue affecting all of us.
It’s also fundamentally different from most issues the Council wrestles with. The Council, in its day-to-day proceedings is concerned primarily with finance. It takes money to run a government. So most of the matters before you involve collecting and spending our—the taxpayers’—money. But fluoridation isn’t about spending —on the contrary, it would save money—it’s about health, ours and that of future generations.
Average citizens busy with their lives will put up with a lot. But it’s one thing to make us pay for projects most of us don’t want: toll roads, race tracks, unnecessary water plants, the Red Line, the Domain—and quite another to spike our water with a known poison. It’s a natural place to draw the line So we don’t plan to quit until we finish the job that we’ve started. Thank you, and Happy New Year.
Posted by M. Rae Nadler-Olenick at 1/13/2012 10:50 AM 
Categories: health environment politics wellness
Tags: fluoride water fluoridation austin chronicle
Categories: health environment politics wellness
Tags: fluoride water fluoridation austin chronicle
In many ways fluoridation is best fought on an Environmental level. Problem is most of the environmental groups have not yet seen this for what it is. Not yet.
It is the solution to pollution is dilution. known deadly cumulative toxic wastes are legal to dump if you just mix them with more water. Our4 water plants serve a that toxic waste dilution center for polluting industries. The Rebecka Hammer solution. with industry benefiting and the ADA benefits with increases in cosmetic damage so profits can skyrocket. Sadly actually treating poor kids is a very low priority as they make less money that way. Medicaid kids are on their own except for fluoridation. The harm with no benefit policy for the poor. Everyone can feel better with worse results for most everyone. Except polluting industry and dentists and our health department professionals who enforce this planned disaster for their own benefit of maintaining a program of deception. Could they really be that big of fools to believe fluoridation can be defended by science. They would show us the science if it existed. They would be ready for debate if it existed. Austins debates proved why smarter professionals never choose to be the fool claiming fluoridation is safe or effective or anything good. Cut and paste is the best they can do.
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