The town of Fairbanks Alaska recently voted to ban flouridation of local water because there is already enough flouride in their water and added flouride would pose a risk to babies on formula. Flouride is also well documented to adversely affect populations with kidney disease and diabetes, and over 24 studies demonstrate excess flouride's association in lowering IQ in children. Andrew Young has come out against flouridation in Atlanta, Peter Vallone has introduced a bill to ban it in NYC, and now Ralph Nader has joined this crusade.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/06/3680339/ralph-nader-joins-influential.html
Fairbanks City Council Votes to End Practice of Adding Flouride to Communities Drinking Water
http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/6eae692ee966401a87e302f1bb6273d5/AK--Fairbanks-Fluoride/
The 'Healthful' Drink That Can Damage Your Health
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/06/05/poor-and-minority-americans-disproportionately-harmed-by-fluoride.aspx
Flouride Debate Makes A Splash in New York
http://nycitynewsservice.com/2011/06/15/fluoride-debate-makes-a-splash/
If only I could discount the issues raised in this Farm Wars piece regarding the recent e Coli. outbreak in Europe, and the backlash it has generated against organics after they were blamed as the source of the deadly disease. Unfortunately, I have already heard calls for irradiating seeds and recognize that this poses a daunting threat to the entire natural and organic health food industry. There is compelling evidence that government agencies favor the biotech agenda over organic interests and a recent history of rulings against organic and natural foods providers on the part of the USDA and the FDA. Regarding the origins of the rare new e Coli. strain, there is very little intellectual curiosity in the mainstream about how exactly it came to be in existence, and we need to push for answers to the critical question of how the pathogen became resistant to eight classes of antibiotics, and how it managed to infect a sprouts farm in Germany.
http://farmwars.info/?p=6236&utm
America's reckless push for more nuclear energy and massive natural gas fracking, rigorously embraced by the Obama Administration, is remarkably tone deaf in relation to the rest of the world. Our politicians enthusiastically sell these energy policies despite the blatant and overwhelming evidence that both technologies are unsafe and potentially devastating for the people of the planet. Japan and Germany have renounced nuclear energy in favor of more sustainable and less toxic and volatile sources. The National Assembly of France has banned fracking outright and South Africa has halted a major natural gas fracking project. The good ole US of A, meanwhile, breathlessly advocates for the great, unregulated Fracking Rush, threatening to poison drinking water and devastate farming, and wants to put little nuclear reactors all over the country despite the ongoing global contamination of the planet from the out-of-control reactors at Fukushima.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11483/americas_energy_ethos_do_regardless_of_harm/
Apparently, the only way for Congress, absent new legislation, to prevent an action by the FDA is to withhold funding from the agency. The House took this step, a first in US history, to protect wild salmon and human populations from contamination by a bioengineered salmon that contains pesticide and growth hormone genes that make it grow twice as fast as natural salmon.
http://www.NaturalNews.com/032719_GM_salmon_Congress.html
House Votes to Block FDA Approval of Genetically Modified Salmon
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/16/genetically-modified-salmon-fda-approval_n_877983.html
