Florida becomes 2nd state to ban fluoride from public drinking water
Florida became the second state in the country after Utah to ban local governments from adding fluoride to their public water systems.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill at Simpson Lakes in Dade City -- about 38 miles northeast of Tampa -- on Thursday. The law is set to go into effect on July 1.
"We certainly now, in our society in 2025, we have the ability to deliver fluoride through toothpaste and all these other things," DeSantis said at an event for the signing of the bill. "You don't gotta force it and take away people's choices. But the whole crux of the issue is you should be able to make decisions on the basis of informed consent."
"Forcing this in the water supply is trying to take that away from people who may want to make a different decision rather than to have this in water," DeSantis added.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/florida-2nd-state-ban-fluoride-public-drinking-water/story?id=121852274Open linkView original on lemmy.world
Another victory against the woke forces fighting tooth decay!!!
Literally the only chemicals any Republicans seem to care about regulating are flouride, progestin, and estradiol.
Cyanide, mercury, and benzene are all fair game.
don’t forget glyphosate & dioxins
Clearly Big Fluoride isn't paying off the right people!
This but unironically.
DOW Chemical could have shut this down with a few Trumpcoin purchases.
90% of the people that agree with this legislation are living off diet soda, lite beer, and energy drinks - not pure water.
Hey... 😥
Is that “hey” as in “Hey, I think this legislation is stupid, but yes, I never drink water and bathing my teeth in high pH drinks all day long”
My teef are fine. I don't know what you're talking about.
You got more than one toof? Lucky
Don’t listen to these fools, your body is a temple. 🙏
This moment of enlightenment brought to you by Mountain Dew Buddha Blast … like a holy hand grenade to your pancreas (TM)
It’s got electrolytes. It’s what plants crave
Drink water. It’s ok to drink other things, but in moderation.
And already lost their teeth years ago.
Because Florida didn’t have enough gap-toothed rednecks already….
Next they should ban Oxygen. Because forcing oxygen into the air is trying to take away the informed consent of people who want to make a different decision than to breathe it in.
"informed" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Your constituents aren't informed, you disingenuous polyp.
What if I want dirty air and water? Why would you take that away from me????
Oxygen causes oxidation.
Get rid of it!
If we are fighting chemicals and letting our water flow pure, add a ban to forever chemicals or PFAs which literally causes cancer and hold them ( 3M, DU Pont) responsible for it
Hey now, you can choose to live in a place without that in your water. /s
The argument DeSantis is making is stupid. You can already buy bottles water with no fluoride in it. How does that not satisfy his argument?
Once again proving Republicans are Fuuuucking stupid.
And when are we going to fix the real problem with our water. Too much hydrogen.
You mean not enough lead?
They just need to invest in H2Flow.
I recently found out my municipality does not add flouride to most of our water, because it’s naturally flouridated enough already to meet the recommended amount.
Apparently concrete water tanks, the type on a lot of rural houses, are naturally fluoridated. My kids have really good teeth which was a surprise given the number of fillings I had as a child.
How do I invest in Florida dentistry?
Like, I don't know, maybe abortion desantis YOU FUCKING MORON.
Florida is replacing the fluoride with citric acid and splenda.
Soon, electrolytes. It's what plants crave!
Clown car shit
He's taking the fluoride out of fluorida
For the purity of all our natural bodily fluids.
Dumbasses
It owns the libs, therefore, it's good, obviously.
Dental plan ... no more fluoridated water
What's the first state?
Aha - Utah!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmggp2y99o
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
Possibly but they are not drinking their toothpaste.
So put it in the toothpaste?
Most developed countries don't do it either, like he says you can get enough of it from other sources, especially toothpaste.
via Fifty reasons to oppose fluoridation (2004)
via The Fluoride Debate: The Pros and Cons of Fluoridation
You're assuming this is in good faith. It is not. There is no good reason to stop doing it other than to signal to all the crazies and conspiracy whack jobs that they may be on to something.
That's also not considering the lack of healthcare in the US compared to other developed nations. Fluoride in the water supply is doing way more heavy lifting here than in Europe.
Except it seems like every time a major area ceases water fluoridation the caries immediately increases compared to nearby areas. Until we see some hard benefits from removing fluoride from water that exceeds the benefits of fluoridation there's no point in giving in to the fearmongering of conspiracy theorists
Uh oh better tell the Republicans they are doing something... European! Sounds like closet libs to me!
Good. Let all of them suffer.
Sorry, not sorry, I don't give a crap anymore about US citizens. Nothing personal, but you guys let this happen, you guys gave the world trump TWICE. He said he'd fuck all of us over, you laughed, even though you already have seen him do that before, and now you're all leopard faced.
If you're an American, then it sucks to be you but you're getting all that you deserve, enjoy your rotting teeth that you can't remove because dentists and other healthcare will become unaffordable soon. I don't care, go suffer in silence
I don't know the best way of bringing this up, but the Americans complaining about the damage of Trump aren't the ones who voted for him. They don't deserve to be doomed to a fate they didn't choose.
This isn't new. US politics had been a clown show since at least 5 decades now. It's not my country, it's not my problem, yet they always make it my problem z they always make it a problem for the entire world.
Enough already.
Protest? Look at France, take the fucking country on hold until this shit is over?
Or, you know, VOTE? Had everyone voted, we wouldn't be having this problem.
How about crippling the country until citizens United gets repealed, and for good measure, laws are put back in place to enforce news organizations to be truthful again?
There is so much that could be done but you can't even get your government to have remotely useful laws in gun control in a place where litter children regularly get slaughtered.
People are literally toying with idead about bullet proof blankets and teachers in kindergarten with guns. Your country is fucking insane and it's affecting the rest of the world so yeah, I dgaf anymore about amerucans dying, you've done it to yourself.
Get your shit together
Soon? It already is