{"id":34191,"date":"2013-06-04T12:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=34191"},"modified":"2013-06-04T12:18:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T12:18:30","slug":"article_27674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_27674\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland, Oregon Votes NO on Water Fluoridation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For related articles and more information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/health.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Issues page<\/a> and our <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/foodsafety.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Safety Research Center page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"271\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/igp_ePiKDKM?feature=player_embedded\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We are beginning to win the battle. The tide seems to have turned as a major victory was achieved late last month when Portland voted against <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoride.mercola.com\/\">fluoride<\/a> &#8211; thanks much in part to the national support they received. <\/p>\n<p>Because of your support, I was able to help fund this effort and took a few lumps in the media as self-serving, as I sell a non-fluoride toothpaste.\u00a0 Desperate campaigns go to desperate measures, making personal attacks the norm.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been a dangerous victory for the CDC had they won, Portland was a prime target as it is the largest unfluoridated city in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Fluoride, of course, is a toxic substance that is biologically active in the human body. It accumulates in sensitive tissues over time, wreaking havoc with enzymes, and producing a number of serious adverse health effects -including neurological and endocrine dysfunction.\u00a0 Fluoride should never be ingested intentionally.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite the scientific evidence against the practice, the United States lags far behind other nations in acknowledging the mistake and ending this tragic &#8220;public health&#8221; measure.\u00a0 As usual, the big lie must continue to protect faith in long term public health policies and agencies.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, individual communities around the US have taken up the fight to end water fluoridation in their own local areas. On many occasions, I&#8217;ve asked you to support such efforts and today, I&#8217;m very pleased to report that the latest fight has ended in victory.\u00a0 Your hard work to share this information or contribute to the campaign proved essential, and I am so proud and grateful to our motivated supporters.<\/p>\n<h3>Science and Integrity Wins in Portland, Oregon<\/h3>\n<p>Portland, Oregon gets its water from the Bull Run watershed; a 102-square mile protected watershed that is so pristine and pure the city was even granted a waiver from having to build a water treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p>On May 21, Portland residents voted on whether or not to fluoridate their unusually pristine water supply, with &#8220;No&#8221; getting 61 percent of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a rocky ride for Portlanders who even had to fight for the right to vote on the issue-for the fourth time!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<h2science h2=\"\" oregon portland in=\"\" wins=\"\" integrity=\"\" and=\"\"><\/h2science>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are beginning to win the battle. 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