Posts Tagged ‘politics’
On December 7 2009, The New Jersey Senate passed a bill that requires fluoride to be added to all public water supplies. The bill was passed despite the objections of utility companies, environmental advocates, and a group of parents.
This bill, if made law, would affect some 6 million households. If it does not become law, it is likely that would be because of cost issues as opposed to health issues. Senator Joseph Vitale (D) sponsored the bill because of what he calls the overwhelming public health care benefit and health care cost savings.
Basically, Senator Vitale, like so many other people, has fallen for the line of the American Dental Association which promotes the research that shows fluoride is an effective tooth decay preventative. Unfortunately, neither the American Dental Association nor the Senator have paid any attention to the research that demonstrates the negative impact of fluoride on general health including, but not limited to, the accumulation of fluoride in the pineal gland.
The thing that is amazing is that these are presumably not stupid people (or are they?). One must wonder why the government is taking the position of requiring that the same chemical that the Russians, and maybe the Nazis, used to pacify people in detention camps be put in our water.
If you live in New Jersey contact your legislators to oppose this legislation.
1. CALL your NJ Senator today! (listings by town: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/municipalities.asp.)
2. CALL Assemblywoman Nellie Pou, Chair of the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, (973) 247-1555.
3. CALL Chris Christie, our newly elected governor, (609) 341-3000.
It may shock you to learn that more than 20 percent of the nation’s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data.
A New York Times article reports that over 49 million people have been drinking unsafe water since 2004.
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