Fluoride in the water

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Do you think toxic fluoride should be added tho the water supply?

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  1. Hairball

    Hairball Well-Known Member

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    Many cities in America have an industrial toxic waste product dumped directly into their drinking water. That toxic waste is hydrofluorosilicic acid. Industries create this toxic byproduct as industrial waste.

    Then our cities pay them to put it in the drinking water supply.
     
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    Just_a_Citizen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's a Commie Plot!

     
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    Hairball Well-Known Member

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    Actually, if you look at the history of the subject it could be a commie plot. Although if IIRC ALCOLA an aliminum manufacturing company, was the first company that bribed it's toxic waste into the drinking water supply.

    The **** is very expensive to store.
     
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    Just_a_Citizen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    While I WAS being a bit cheeky, yeah, it could be anyone's plot. Kinda why I chose the poll option I did.
     
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    I don’t know if you’ve been misled or you’re doing the misleading but it’s one of the two.

    Most things can be toxic but toxicity depends on dose (and typically a whole load of other factors). Hydrofluorosilicic acid can certainly be toxic in its raw form but that doesn’t mean it’s toxic in the dilution it is put in to drinking water. There can be lots of trace elements in drinking water, natural or added, which would be toxic in much larger amounts.

    The “industrial waste” line is empty fear too. The fact something is a waste product from some industrial process doesn’t automatically make it bad or dangerous. Water itself is a common industrial waste product.
     

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