Comments on: Drink Tap Water http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:23:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: cusanus http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-227139 cusanus Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:32:38 +0000 #comment-227139 Ryanol wrote: "The only two cavities I have had in my life were while I was living in Bozeman, MT and they didn't add fluoride." Bozeman's water is fluoridated. See http://www.bozeman.net/bozeman/water%20treatment/Default.aspx Don't believe everything you're told. Ryanol wrote: “The only two cavities I have had in my life were while I was living in Bozeman, MT and they didn’t add fluoride.”

Bozeman’s water is fluoridated. See http://www.bozeman.net/bozeman/water%20treatment/Default.aspx

Don’t believe everything you’re told.

]]> By: Col. Bat Guano http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-223796 Col. Bat Guano Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:00:08 +0000 #comment-223796 Make me one, too, but I'm warning you, no funny stuff! Make me one, too, but I’m warning you, no funny stuff!

]]> By: Mandrake http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-223794 Mandrake Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:49:46 +0000 #comment-223794 General, I would be happy to mix you a cocktail of rain water and grain alcohol. General, I would be happy to mix you a cocktail of rain water and grain alcohol.

]]> By: Dougie_D http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-223714 Dougie_D Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:19:12 +0000 #comment-223714 In Chicago they now charge a $0.05 tax per bottle of water that you buy. It's not a deposit. Just a usage fee to cover recycling or disposal or city body dumping fees who knows it goes into the general budget. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2007/dec/24/business/chi-watertaxdec24 In Chicago they now charge a $0.05 tax per bottle of water that you buy. It’s not a deposit. Just a usage fee to cover recycling or disposal or city body dumping fees who knows it goes into the general budget.

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2007/dec/24/business/chi-watertaxdec24

]]> By: ryanol http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-223710 ryanol Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:10:25 +0000 #comment-223710 The only two cavities I have had in my life were while I was living in Bozeman, MT and they didn't add fluoride. Re: Bottled water. I drink most of my water at home via bottles, more out of convenience than anything plus my dog likes to chew on the empties. The only two cavities I have had in my life were while I was living in Bozeman, MT and they didn’t add fluoride.

Re: Bottled water.

I drink most of my water at home via bottles, more out of convenience than anything plus my dog likes to chew on the empties.

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-223708 justpbob Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:01:38 +0000 #comment-223708 Max, for the sake of transperancy, should disclose your ties to the Evil Dental Empire that spreads these kind of lies (grin). Max, for the sake of transperancy, should disclose your ties to the Evil Dental Empire that spreads these kind of lies (grin).

]]> By: Max Sparber http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-223705 Max Sparber Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:29:00 +0000 #comment-223705 Early studies show a reduction in 50-60 percent of childhood cavities when fluoridation was introduced; nowadays, when fluoride is also available in a number of additional sources, the reduction clocks in at about 18-40 percent: http://cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm But there will always be naysayers out there, saying nay. Early studies show a reduction in 50-60 percent of childhood cavities when fluoridation was introduced; nowadays, when fluoride is also available in a number of additional sources, the reduction clocks in at about 18-40 percent: http://cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm

But there will always be naysayers out there, saying nay.

]]> By: Rat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-223701 Rat Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:27:24 +0000 #comment-223701 "The point, rat, is that the existence of certain jobs does not always justify what those jobs cause." That's easy to say if it's not your job in the balance. “The point, rat, is that the existence of certain jobs does not always justify what those jobs cause.”

That’s easy to say if it’s not your job in the balance.

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-223700 justpbob Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:24:52 +0000 #comment-223700 If a great American like Gen. Jack D. Ripper says fluoridation is a commie plot to polute our precious bodily fluids, that's good enough for me. That nyscof guy, on the other hand, sounds like some comic character from a movie... If a great American like Gen. Jack D. Ripper says fluoridation is a commie plot to polute our precious bodily fluids, that’s good enough for me.

That nyscof guy, on the other hand, sounds like some comic character from a movie…

]]> By: nyscof http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/drink-tap-water#comment-223699 nyscof Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:30:11 +0000 #comment-223699 Modern science shows that ingesting fluoride via the water supply is a health-robbing waste of toxapyers' money. If the mayor would stop adding fluoride chemicals into the water supply (and the trace amounts of lead, arsenic and mercury that comes with it), he would save money, preserve health and teeth (Studies show when fluoridation ends, tooth decay actually goes down) more info http://www.FluorideAction.Net/health Modern science shows that ingesting fluoride via the water supply is a health-robbing waste of toxapyers’ money. If the mayor would stop adding fluoride chemicals into the water supply (and the trace amounts of lead, arsenic and mercury that comes with it), he would save money, preserve health and teeth (Studies show when fluoridation ends, tooth decay actually goes down)

more info
http://www.FluorideAction.Net/health

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