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Old 04-16-2010, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Union, ME
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I just read an article on Portland, ME restaurateur Oliver Outerbridge's campaign against the fluoridation of Portland's water, and I'm wondering how Mainers elsewhere in the state feel about this issue. Of course, well water likely constitutes the greatest source of water for many households; but, maybe not.

Curious to know, also, from those who are on wells, how often, if ever, you have had your well tested, and for what.

When I lived in Rockland and was on city water, I used to fill up at a local spring. Some kind soul paid to have the spring water tested each... spring (I love it when that happens!), and posted the laminated results on the stainless steel (yep, true) well cap which he welded up. Nice guy.

I have felt a little iffy about drinking fluoridated H20 for awhile; I will and do drink it if that's what there is. Glad to be on a good well now, though...I can't help but think of the Roman's and their usage of lead. They knew lead was toxic, but not exactly how toxic; they manipulated their usage of it, but...how successfully?

 
Old 04-16-2010, 08:19 PM
 
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I just read an article on Portland, ME restaurateur Oliver Outerbridge's campaign against the fluoridation of Portland's water, and I'm wondering how Mainers elsewhere in the state feel about this issue. Of course, well water likely constitutes the greatest source of water for many households; but, maybe not.

Curious to know, also, from those who are on wells, how often, if ever, you have had your well tested, and for what.

When I lived in Rockland and was on city water, I used to fill up at a local spring. Some kind soul paid to have the spring water tested each... spring (I love it when that happens!), and posted the laminated results on the stainless steel (yep, true) well cap which he welded up. Nice guy.

I have felt a little iffy about drinking fluoridated H20 for awhile; I will and do drink it if that's what there is. Glad to be on a good well now, though...I can't help but think of the Roman's and their usage of lead. They knew lead was toxic, but not exactly how toxic; they manipulated their usage of it, but...how successfully?
Believe it or not, chlorinated water causes bladder cancer.

But the incidence of bladder cancer caused by chlorinated water is supposed to be low compared to the dangers of bacteria in water, so chlorination continues.

Moral of the story is you're right to doubt the safety of chemicals put into the water supply.
 
Old 04-16-2010, 08:20 PM
 
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Flouride is poison. Put it in your own body of you like but not in a Municipal water source. That's MHO on the subject.
 
Old 04-16-2010, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Maine
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Curious to know, also, from those who are on wells, how often, if ever, you have had your well tested, and for what.
I test yearly for nitrates, nitrites and bacteria (ecoli, coliform).
 
Old 04-17-2010, 06:08 AM
 
Location: Maine
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This little clip will tell you all you need to know about floridated water.

YouTube - Dr. Strangelove - Fluoride Water Scene 2




bill
 
Old 04-17-2010, 06:12 AM
 
Location: God's Country, Maine
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To quote Gen. Ripper, from Dr. Strangelove...

"1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."

Always been a plot, and I will stand by that!

Roadrat beat me to it.
 
Old 04-17-2010, 10:46 AM
 
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Only those of us with wells will be left to defend ourselves from the zombies the flouridated water created.
 
Old 04-17-2010, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Lebanon, OH
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Flouride is poison. Put it in your own body of you like but not in a Municipal water source. That's MHO on the subject.
Yep. Calcium Floride is good for your teeth, sodium floride that is used to floridate water is also used in rat poison. It ruins plumbing as well.

It's not the government's duty to mass medicate it's subjects.
 
Old 04-17-2010, 10:30 PM
 
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Yep. Calcium Floride is good for your teeth, sodium floride that is used to floridate water is also used in rat poison. It ruins plumbing as well.

It's not the government's duty to mass medicate it's subjects.
That's right they do that enough with the Chemtrails they lay down every clear day!!!
 
Old 04-18-2010, 06:51 AM
 
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Default On the other hand...

... the CDC lists fluoridation of water as one the ten greatest public health achievements of the 20th century. The average cost is less than $1 per person per year and studies show it can prevent 20-60% of cavities. Cancer studies--and there have been dozens of them, done over decades--show no association with cancer. But, what do they know?

It doesn't seem much different to me than the fuss that was raised about autism and vaccines--which have been shown to be unrelated.

Why give up something that has a proven health benefit, that has been shown to be safe and extremely cost-effective?
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