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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.
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“You don’t gotta force it and take away people’s choices.”
Like, I don’t know, maybe abortion desantis YOU FUCKING MORON.
It owns the libs, therefore, it’s good, obviously.
How do I invest in Florida dentistry?
He’s taking the fluoride out of fluorida
For the purity of all our natural bodily fluids.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
Most European countries including Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland do not fluoridate water.
Out of a population of about three-quarters of a billion, under 14 million people (approximately 2%) in Europe receive artificially-fluoridated water. Those people are in the UK (5,797,000), Republic of Ireland (4,780,000), Spain (4,250,000), and Serbia (300,000).[27]
Don’t the have high levels of fluoride in toothpaste?
Possibly but they are not drinking their toothpaste.
And that’s the difference. Fluoride is good for our teeth. But the US doesn’t have high fluoride toothpaste. These places do.
So put it in the toothpaste?
No can do. Americans eat and swallow too much of toothpaste.
This is the country that has to let people know to not drink gasoline. Or that coffee is hot.
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?
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
…you ever take it off any sweet jumps?..
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 ™
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….
“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.
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.
What if I want dirty air and water? Why would you take that away from me???
“informed” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Your constituents aren’t informed, you disingenuous polyp.
Oxygen causes oxidation.
Get rid of it!
And when are we going to fix the real problem with our water. Too much hydrogen.
They just need to invest in H2Flow.
You mean not enough lead?
Once again proving Republicans are Fuuuucking stupid.
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.
Clown car shit
Dental plan … no more fluoridated water
