- cross-posted to:
- health@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- health@lemmy.world
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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For the purity of all our natural bodily fluids.
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… 😥
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
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
Drink water. It’s ok to drink other things, but in moderation.
And already lost their teeth years ago.
And when are we going to fix the real problem with our water. Too much hydrogen.
You mean not enough lead?
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!
Once again proving Republicans are Fuuuucking stupid.
Dental plan … no more fluoridated water
Clown car shit
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.
Florida is replacing the fluoride with citric acid and splenda.
Soon, electrolytes. It’s what plants crave!
Dumbasses
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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.
Nothing personal
Sure sounds like it’s personal. But if all of us are to blame then please enlighten us, let’s hear about how you would have prevented Trump from coming to power a second time if you were American.
Soon? It already is
