Since fluoride is tasteless, odourless and colourless it is undetectable in our tap water. It does not smell or taste awful. It is the perfect material for public mass medication.

It can not be filtered out by a Britta filter and it can not be removed by boiling. Only steam distillation will remove it. But steam distillation also removes all the minerals which drinking water usually contains.

Is it not a shame that this city starts out with pristine pure water from a deep aquifer and then promptly poisons it with the addition of commercial fluoride which is an industrial waste by-product?

I agree with you totally PrinceGeorge. I wish they would leave it out of our water supply too.

I hope soooo much that they start discontinuing it from our water!!

Sure, pristine pure water from a deep aquafier. However one little incident with bacteria, and all you purist will be screaming out in adaquacy.

Keep in mind, pure water coming out of the ground, but our pipes leak in silt and crap through our lines, we need to ensure healthy water at the kitchen taps.

Flouride, is a better solution than chloride.

I am writing about fluoride, not flouride.

Flouride is not the correct name!

Chlorine is used to treat water at the source to kill bacteria. Fluoride does NOT kill bacteria!

Perhaps the city should inform citizens why it MUST use chlorine in order to ensure the safety of our water supply as far as bacteria are concerned.

Vancouver has switched to ozonation and ultra violet treatment of its water.

Chlorine treatment is necessary and acceptable until the better option of ozonation and ultraviolet can be afforded.

It helps to be informed about certain subjects before making hasty inaccurate statements in public!

"There are several B.C. communities which have discontinued the practice of fluoridating water including: Mackenzie ,Smithers, Kitimat, Kelowna, Kamloops, and Burns Lake."

He spoke, do you honestly believe that all these communities are intentionally putting the health of their entire populations at risk?

How about reading the whole story?

They all treat their water with CHLORINE! It is a provincial law!

And they do not add FLUORIDE! It is not a provincial law to add this stuff!

I think I will go along with the majority of dentists that agree with the fluoride. In my opinion trying to get rid of fluoride is the same as drinking unpasteurized milk. It's just dumb.

totally agree duffer!

If you want the fluoride take supplements or use fluoridated toothpaste...those that don't want it shouldn't be force fed the unnecessary chemical.

Ignorance is bliss, leave me alone

For once I agree with you He Spoke!Leave me alone too.

I totally agree with you Jim13135...if I wanted fluoride I would take supplements

Actually I think I will go down to city council meeting tonight

Actually I think I will go down to city council meeting tonight

Actually ignorance can also be deadly!!!!

Actually ignorance can also be deadly!!!!

Actually ignorance can also be deadly!!!!

unpasteurized milk?
Do you mean the farm fresh, unmodified pure food source for young mammals (including humans)?

I and my kids grew up on unpasteurized goats milk from my father. We all still prefer that to the simulated milk product touted as good for you. You have never had your morning cereal taste so good as last night's milk cream off the top, or even still warm from this morning's milking.

Pasteurized milk has most of the nutrition, flavour and essentail fats and fatty acids removed.

Pasteurization has enabled milk quotas that are most difficult to change up or down, centralized distribution model, the ability to store the product well beyond its natural storage period and the downfall of independent dairy farms.

Again, whether it is pasteurized milk or water flouridation, or our current electric power generation system, it is more about corporate profit than public health. Do you really think politicians or big business give a chit about your health?

The sale of unpasteurized milk appears to be still illegal in B.C. so the comparison of milk and fluoride addition to tap water is nothing but a dumb diversion tactic. So the B.C. communities (see above) which recently voluntarily stopped fluoridation are dumb? How quaint!

Maybe the effects of fluoride on the human brain are more pronounced than scientists have so far verified.

The addition of fluoride to tap water requires a referendum. Prince George never had a referendum. It does not require a referendum to stop it! And it is not mandatory that a municipality uses it in the first place! It's optional!

Since everybody ingests different amounts of water on a daily basis the total dosis is totally uncontrollable!

How many medications do not have cautions about daily maximum intake?

Answer: None! They all have labels with precise instructions.

With fluoride though it is left to chance.

Nice going, people!

PrinceGeorge, ok I accept that those comments may be a stretch. I was hoping to get across the idea that product regulations are a good idea, except when they become totalitarin and remove choice. I am hoping that we can get our representatives (chuckle) to loosen their ties to corporate buddies and start actually REPRESENTING the constituants.

Loki, I agree with you 100%

Well, Loki, product regulations are indeed a good idea! I agree.

Funny you mention totalitarianism, because I feel that the addition of fluoride to tap water is totalitarian and removes any choice. If the water came untreated (except for chlorination) to the tap a person would have a choice. A) Either drink the fluoride-free water as is or B) add a small fluoride pill to the glass of water (the pills are sold in some the pharmacies) or brush the teeth regularly with the fluoride which comes with the toothpaste or brush them more often. Follow this up with a fluoride treatment at the bi-annual checkup at the dentists office. Dentists recommended these treatments - one can say yes or no. One would not force people to take the treatment so people should not force others to ingest it daily and be exposed to it when taking a shower! What is so difficult to understand about that?

It is all about freedom of choice and respect for others!

Since the water in Prince George comes fully fluoridated I have been using a $ 1,200 dollar water distiller for the last decade. It adds about 15 dollars to my Hydro bill. Yet, there is a drawback - the distillation process removes all the usual minerals from the water so I have to invest more of my money in mineral supplements.

I feel that this is an unfair and unequal predicament and that I am forced by the city to resort to expensive measures which would be not required if the city would only supply my house with normal fluoride free water.

My freedom of choice has been undeservedly compromised.

The proper respectful thing to do is to let everybody decide for themselves what they want to put into their bodies.

Just stop the practice. It does not cost one cent to turn off the fluoride chemical injection pumps.

If you don't want it, drink bottled water. You probably do already anyway.

Oh great, another expense for me to avoid what I do not want as PG has stated.

Plus, bottled water is not the solution. First, one cannot guarantee the bottler has not added or removed flouride.
Second, the container is a problem, like a soda bottle with all that goes with it.
Third, I have concluded that bottled water is "dead" water. The process used is a

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Loki. it doesn't matter. The conversation has descended into mythoughts territory and it is no longer worthwhile to make a serious contribution.

The trolls can have it.

PrinceGeorge, you make soooo much sense...I do not understand why other people cannot see it also. You are sooo right..we do not have freedom of choice anymore....makes me VERY angry also....maybe you will go to the meeting tonight also?

Well that shows the character of a provincial liberal supporter such as Prince George.He thinks everyone else who posts on this site is a troll.Your words,not mine!

The board of the Santa Clara Valley Water District (in California) held a public meeting March 22nd on water fluoridation. This summer they are scheduled to vote on whether or not to fluoridate the water supply. The board and their staff were given 20 copies of a 75-minute cd of doctors explaining the history, origin, and health hazards of this toxic waste. Doctors included John Lee, John Yiamouyannis, and Phyllis Mullenix. The audio is posted at the website www.MaeBrussell.com. Just go to the bottom of the homepage.

If people were to burn a cd of that audio and spread it around (especially to churches, schools, health food stores and health clubs) you might find it very effective in waking up the public in your area. Good luck.