I lived in Davis, California for 5 years, where they don't fluoridate their water. Why is this, you ask? Well, it is because cavities are not prevented by fluoride. They are prevented by eating natural, whole foods, and native diets. Populations untouched from sugar and processed foods don't have dental caries. The idea of adding fluoride to water came from the aluminum processing industry in search of a way to profit from this by-product.
Fluoride is one of many contaminants found in our water. That being said, municipal water is still a better way to go compared to bottled water. Bottled water encourages the commodification of water threatening its free access and status as a basic human right. Bottling and distributing water (usually in plastic=poison) uses a grotesque amount of energy and such companies often cause environmental destruction to the areas where they harvest water. Theses companies are also not highly regulated and a recent report by the Earth Policy Institute showed that ~40% of bottled water starts as tap water. For example, Dasani water is owned by coke and is simply tap water put in a plastic bottle that costs more than gas per gallon.
Speaking of which, though there are many companies to be picked on, Coke is a tremendously wide target considering they are guilty of everything from pollution of ground water at factories sites, huge consumption of resources in manufacturing and distributing coke to to the murder of union organizers in Latin America. All of this not to mention that how poisonous it is for the human body. Aspartame, used to sweeten diet coke, was rejected by the FDA for 16 years before it's approval. And then there's the popular India Guru, Baba Ram Dev, who uses coke as toilet bowl cleaner to show folks how acidic it is. So, join us in boycotting coke and their many products, too many to list below but a full list of which you can find here-- thank you Wikipedia!
Coke
Dasani
Fanta
Fuze Healthy Infusions
Godiva
Hi-C
Nestea
Schwepps
Minute Maid
Odwalla
Seagrams
Spring! water
Vitamin water
Burp!, documentary on the Coke and Pepsi empire can be watched here
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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