I agree with you Conner. From my experience (having grown up in a middle-class family in a city with water fluoridation) the biggest problem is lack of knowledge on the issue. This information is not in the public eye and many people do not realize the importance of this issue enough to look into it.

Thanks Conner,

I was informed recently by a water filter salesman that where I’m living it is illegle to filter fluoride out of the water.

I would disagree on being out of budget for most families. If you look at many poor families, they have large tvs and their kids wear Jordan’s yet they live in absolute poverty otherwise. It’s not that they CANT afford to utilize better water/food for themnselves, its that they WONT, and spent money frivulously on stupid stuff.

yours truly,
a broke college student who can still afford a purifier. 🙂

Have you considered using clove tincture for treatment of your mouth? It’s been used for millenia and as I have very poor dental health I have been using it to help with antiseptic concerns and also in cutting down on inflammation. I usually make up my warm-to-hot few ounces of water and a dropper-full of the clove extract and swish it liberally in my mouth, hold it in the mouth for another 30 seconds to a minute and feel free to swallow as it is not toxic. Certainly beats any antibiotic by a mile; I’ve been trying to build up my body’s flora and as such avoid antibiotics like the plague.

so you are told its a greater ploy to keep us all in line , this world is not as you know it make your own study on the subject and not based on the opinion of the very people trying to silence us

Thanks Alec,

I was fortunate enough to drink Kangen water for years (and had reverse osmosis before that) however the machine was incredibly expensive. Not saying it isn’t worth the money but it would be way out of most peoples budget, particularly young families.

Thanks for sharing all of that Patricia, it’s greatly appreciated.

I am a frontline healthcare worker who also cares about public health. Unfortunately I live in an area with fluoridated water but I don’t drink it (I use a water filtration system that removes most of it) for the same reasons listed in this article and in the comments that support it. I have signed several petitions asking to have fluoride removed in Canadian drinking water systems in municipalities that are mandated to have it. I find their reasons for it unjustifiable, especially when it’s been banned in over 30 municipalities across Canada including Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and recently Waterloo and Windsor. Ontario has the highest rate of water fluoridation compared to any other province in Canada and it also holds over 85% of the country’s population.

I personally haven’t heard of any significant cases of tooth decay or a rise in tooth loss incidence rates within any of the populations with regular (unfluoridated) drinking water so why the discrepancy on public health dental concerns and views across Canada?

Everyone should be free to choose and access clean, pure, unadulterated water as nature intended. However people must either purchase expensive filtration systems in order to eliminate it or resort to using bottled water at an additional cost to their wallets and the environment. These choices don’t completely remove all exposure to it either – the consumption of food grown and processed in areas that use fluoridated water must also be taken into consideration.

Even bottled water has become a highly controversial topic with talks about government agencies making deals to allow corporations to purchase and bottle volumes of prestine spring water resources often found in smaller communities, even during times of drought. Corporations are also being permitted to pay significantly lower water usage rates than the household members that depend and thrive on it and in return charge exorbitant prices for their bottled water.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/national/nestle-continues-to-extract-water-from-ontario-town-despite-severe-drought-activists/article31480345/

There is also the matter of ethics where fluoride, classified as a drug by the US Food & Drug Administration, is added to water for the purpose of mass medication of a population (ie. in the prevention of dental caries/cavities) without disclosing any of its potential side effects and without first receiving consent from an individual prior to being medicated.

http://fluoridealert.org/issues/water/medical-ethics/

It makes me wonder why certain government agencies have exercised such extreme control over the fluoridation of public drinking water in ways that deem it harmful to our overall well-being if there wasn’t some other ulterior motive behind it.

The rest can’t afford it.