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Fluoride is a
poisonous substance added to many municipal water supplies across the
US, Canada, and elsewhere without the permission of the residents. Is
there a model that communities can follow to remove it from their water
supply? The short answer to this question is yes.

Dr.
Paul Connett, a chemist by training and director of the Fluoride Action
Network (FAN), is recognized worldwide as a leader in the movement to
eliminate fluoride from municipal water supplies, and I’m pleased to be
working with him to achieve this goal.

He’s been
active in this area for decades, becoming an environmental activist
shortly after joining St. Lawrence University in 1983. In 1985, he got
involved with the Zero Waste movement, fighting incineration and
promoting alternatives to waste burning.

Those
earlier efforts recently culminated in the publication of the book,

The Zero Waste Solution:
Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time. Then, in
1996, his wife alerted him to the problems of water
fluoridation.

“I started to read what she’d given me, and I was
embarrassed that I had fallen victim of this American
brainwashing,” he says.

“The American message from the
public health establishment is that everybody in the world says
fluoridation is great.

They forgot the fact that
most of the world does not fluoridate; 97 percent of Europe does not
fluoridate, thank you very much. The other tactic has been to denigrate
opponents of fluoridation – flat earth society, crazy people. And I
apologize, because I fell victim to
that.”