Where Does Fluoride Come From?
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unaware their fluoride-laced glass of water is actually spiked with an
impure industrial waste product (fluosilicic acid), "scrubbed" from
Florida phosphate fertilizer smokestacks.
The filtering was forced by successful lawsuits against
fluoride-emitting industries for cattle and crop damage; but the
residue also provided a cheap fluoride source critical for the war
effort (WWII) as well as for water fluoridation.
According to investigative reporter, Christopher Bryson, in his new
book The Fluoride Deception, fluoride is an essential component of
atomic bomb production and was declared a 'strategic and critical'
material by the government after World War II, With fluospar, the usual
fluoride source, in short supply, they turned to Florida's phosphate
industry to recover the industry's captured fluoride. Florida held the
world's largest geological deposits of natural phosphate which contain
3 - 4% fluoride.
"In a sweetheart deal these phosphate companies are spared the expense
of disposing of this 'fluosilicic acid' in a toxic waste dump. Instead,
the acid is sold to municipalities, shipped in rubber-lined tanker
trucks to reservoirs across North America and injected into drinking
water for the reduction of cavities in children. (So toxic are the
contents of the fluoride trucks that, in the aftermath of the September
11, 2001, terrorist attack, authorities were alerted to keep a watchful
eye on road shipments of the children's tooth-decay reducer.)" writes
Bryson in his heavily referenced book. In return, U.S. strategic
planners would have a nearly inexhaustible potential supply of domestic
fluoride.
There was yet another potential cold-war reason for disposing of
fluosilicic acid in public water supplies. The Florida phosphate beds
were also an important source of uranium, harvested for the Atomic
Energy Commission. Because uranium is only a trace mineral in the
phosphate deposits, enormous quantities had to be processed to glean
worthwhile amounts of uranium. So, large amounts of waste fluoride were
also produced. Permitting that fluoride to be dumped into public water
supplies - rather than being disposed of as toxic waste - reduced the
cost of such uranium extraction and provided a supply of fluoride.
Skeptical at first Theo Colborn, coauthor of "Our Stolen Future,"
senior scientist with the World Wildlife Fund-US, and one of the
world's leading authorities on environmental endocrine-disrupting
chemicals writes in the forward to "The Fluoride Deception,"
"Bryson writes with the skill of a top-selling novelist, but it was not
his convincing storytelling that made me finish the book. It was the
haunting message that possibly here again was another therapeutic
agent, fluoride, that had not been thoroughly studied before it was
foisted on the public as a panacea to protect or improve health."
"Whether or not Bryson's nuclear-bomb connection is ever confirmed
without a doubt, this book demonstrates that there is still much that
needs to be considered about the continued use of fluorine in future
production and technology. The nuclear product that required the use of
fluorine ultimately killed 65,000 people outright in one sortie over
Japan. The actual number of others since then and in generations to
come who will have had their health insidiously undermined by
artificial exposure to fluorides and other fluorine chemicals with
half-lives estimated in geologic time may well exceed that of the atom
bomb victims millions and millions of times over," writes Colborn.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirms fluoridation is a fix
for Florida's environmental pollution it in a 1983 letter stating "This
Agency regards such use an ideal environmental solution to a long
standing problem?By recovering by-product fluosilicic acid from
fertilizer manufacturing, water and air pollution are minimized and
water utilities have a low-cost source of fluoride available to them."
There is no dispute among those for and against water fluoridation that
industrial waste fluorosilicates are dispensed via the water supply as
a cavity-preventive.
Industry may have solved their toxic waste problems. But the evidence
shows fluoridation does not reduce tooth decay. A tooth decay epidemic
is rampant in the U.S.
today reports the Surgeon General and cavity crises are occurring in
many, if not all, fluoridated cities and states. (
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof2/_pgg5.php3 )
Further, these fertilizer by-products have never been safety tested in
animals or humans.
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) has just begun to study these
water fluoridation chemicals.
Masters and Coplan, in their published studies, consistently find
higher blood lead levels in children who live in silicofluoridated
communites when compared to those living in sodium or non-fluoridated
communities.
Newburgh New York was the first experimental city to dose its citizens
with fluoride, in 1945, to conduct safety studies. Planned to last ten
years, the study was curtailed after five years, and declared a
success. Children sick two weeks before examination were excluded -
eliminating the very children who might be exhibiting fluoride's
adverse effects and no adults were studied.
Oh, and they used sodium fluoride, not the fluoride chemicals used by
over 91% of U.S. fluoridating communities today - silicofluorides.
Happy Earth Day!
For more information, contact:
Paul S. Beeber
President & General Counsel
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
PO Box 263
Old Bethpage, NY 11804
nys...@aol.com
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