Re: [compost_tea] Flouride in water question...

From: Thomas Giannou <thomas_at_tandjenterprises.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:04:14 -0700

Hi Tom,

Thank's for the link and the info. We have turned down fluoride addition t=
o the drinking water here in Spokane three times in a vote of the city resi=
dents. The dentists and public health people keep bringing it up. I don't=
 mind having the dentist treat my kids teeth with fluoride, but I do mind h=
aving it in the drinking water. It usually comes with additional heavy met=
als like arsenic, lead, mercury and zinc as contaminants of the fluoride so=
urce. It's about a 50-50 split between Spokane residents over the issue.

I'm beginning to think I should invest in a system wide water filter that r=
uns this side of the water meter. I'm a little apprehensive of filtering a=
 lot of minerals out of the water for health reasons, but that's based more=
 on a hunch than facts. Do you sell or have something to do with water fil=
ters? Can you recommend a good system wide water filter that I could insta=
ll and maintain myself in my home? What are some of the things to look for=
 in such a critter?

Here in Spokane, we have an aquifer which is supposedly delivering pristine=
 pure water. I should collect some of the really weird stuff we have filte=
red out of the city water supply using just a Brita water filter for drinki=
ng water. The wiggly jell like things have my curiosity going. Small gnat=
s seem to be common. Flakes off the inside of pipes always seem to be pres=
ent.

I'd like to have a filter that gets the chlorine out and fluoride out shoul=
d the city voters ever vote fluoride addition into law.

--Thomas Giannou
http://www.tandjenterprises.com
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Tom Jaszewski
  To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 4:16 PM
  Subject: RE: [compost_tea] Flouride in water question...


  http://www.apfn.org/apfn/fluoride.htm





  A recent analysis of the Canadian food basket indicates that a typical No=
rth American diet delivers about 1.8 mg of fluoride per day (Dabeka, 1995).=
 This is nearly twice the amount of fluoride one would receive from drinkin=
g one liter of fluoridated water. Some of this fluoride we can do little ab=
out, but the one source we should not have to contend with is that introduc=
ed by organic farmers. When we pay extra money to avoid pesticides, we don'=
t expect to get doses of an extremely toxic pesticide! Thus, even though th=
ese new National Organic Standards permit organic farmers to use bone meal =
and sodium fluoride, we urge them not to do so. We also urge them to avoid =
the use of powdered phosphate rock. We urge readers to make their voices he=
ard on this issue. In the future, we will be looking for labels which say "=
organic" and "fluoride free".



  -----Original Message-----
  From: Thomas Giannou [mailto:thomas_at_tandjenterprises.com]
  Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 10:41 PM
  To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [compost_tea] Flouride in water question...



  Elaine,



  What do you think about Fluoride additions to water? Fluoride certainly =
has a killing effect upon sugar eating bacteria in a person's mouth and whe=
n the bacteria produce their amino acids, the fluoride is released to kill =
them. Have you done any tests with fluoridated water vs. unfluoridated wat=
er to see if there's any detectable differences?



  I'm also interested in the effect of adding fluoridated water to soils an=
d what the effect might be over a period of time. Is there a cumulative ef=
fect like heavy metals?



  --Thomas Giannou

  http://www.tandjenterprises.com






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