Iowa Liberty

From the Press Citizen:

“Kudos to the Iowa City Council on Tuesday night for agreeing to review our water fluoridation policy in a future work session.

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The anti-water fluoridation movement did a good job informing the council of the dangers of adding fluoride to the public water supply.

According to The Fluoride Action Network (www.fluoridealert.org):

• The fluoride added to our water supplies comes from toxic waste and does not come from a sterile lab.

• Silicofluorides added are 85 times more toxic that naturally occurring calcium fluoride.

• Fluoride is a topical agent and should not be consumed since it is highly poisonous.

• Even at 1 parts per million. fluoride has been shown to cause brain defects and bone cancer in lab rats.

• Ninety-eight percent of Western Europe will not use fluoride. Japan won’t. China won’t. About 60 percent of the U.S. still fluoridates their water.

Iowa City spends more than $14,000 a year to medicate a population of almost 64,000 people with fluoride without consent. This practice has been in place since the 1950s.

Since the council has such a huge responsibility of medicating our city by defacto policy. I hope they will consult an ethicist and a toxicologist and not just a dentist in their work sessions.

Times are changing. We can’t rely on junk science of the 1950s in order to just keep things status quo. I am very optimistic the council will do it’s homework and finally stop this out dated and unsafe practice.

Mark Amberg
Iowa City”