Future of fluoridated water once again on Rutland's Town Meeting Day ballot
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Rutland has been fluoridating its water for decades. The last time it was on the ballot, in 2016, voters chose to keep the fluoride in. But concerned residents have another opportunity to vote on the topic in March.

Rutland resident Jack Crowther has been a longtime critic.

“You’re putting a drug, a medicine, in our water to treat tooth decay without the informed consent of the people,” Crowther said.

"Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?" strangelove-wow

"THEY'RE PUTTING MEDICINE IN THE WATER!" frothingfash

Also related, a Richmond, VT waterworks employee secretly lowered fluoride levels in the town's drinking supply for a decade.

EDIT: I should've updated this a month ago, but the town voted to keep fluoride.

  • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    If it's cheap as shit give everyone a packet of fluoride to smear on their teeth.

    jesse-wtf

    Besides the practical concerns water fluoridation would never pass an ethical review if it were proposed today. People should be able to consent to what medicine they're taking. It's banned in almost every country other than the US for a reason.

    jesse-wtf

    It's widely practiced in other countries like the UK, all across South America, Malaysia, ROK, Ireland, Spain, China, Singapore; the rest of what you're saying is comically wrong but this part is incredibly easy to demonstrate how wrong you are.

    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Water flouridation isn't done in China. In certain regions the fluoride level is naturally high and there is a problem with fluoridosis in those regions. In like the 70s they did flouridation and then stopped once they realized it made fluoridosis rates go up slightly.

      A lot of the countries you're talking about don't artificially fluoridate their water, they just have naturally high(ish) fluoride levels and get listed as "fluoridated water" in whatever source you're using.

      UK

      I guess water fluoridation does fuck all for your teeth then lmao. /s

      Wtf is someone with fluorosis gonna do? Drink only distilled water until it goes away?

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        9 months ago

        How did they get fluorosis in the first place? And yeah, that's probably how to solve it.

        • oregoncom [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          Hong Kong being the only part of China that does it is more proof that fluoridation is burgerbrain bullshit.