Why is the addition of fluoride during the water purification process wrong, but the usage of other halide (like chlorides) not?
Because the water purification process is about contaminant removal. This additive is a difference of kind. Therefore, it ought not to be considered part of the purification process. And since it is performed without our express consent, this action is also immoral since it limits human autonomy.
I wonder what slick legal trick was done to take this industrial waste and dump it into our water supply?
Edit: clarification. Fluoride is bad, because it is added. Chlorine isn't bad because it's used as tool for removal of contamination.
My father (RIP) was a chemical engineer and very knowledgeable about chlorine safety, having been the safety officer at a chemical plant that made Freon and other industrial chemicals that required chlorine as a feed stock, and authored international shipping regulations re chlorine. He said if you could smell just a hint of chlorine in drinking water, you did not have to be concerned about pathogens in the water and a little bit was not harmful. I know, that is a very general statement and doesn't indicate what a safe level would be in a measurable sense.
Personally, I drink and cook with distilled water to avoid ingesting chlorine and fluoride.
Why is the addition of fluoride during the water purification process wrong, but the usage of other halide (like chlorides) not?
Because the water purification process is about contaminant removal. This additive is a difference of kind. Therefore, it ought not to be considered part of the purification process. And since it is performed without our express consent, this action is also immoral since it limits human autonomy.
I wonder what slick legal trick was done to take this industrial waste and dump it into our water supply?
Edit: clarification. Fluoride is bad, because it is added. Chlorine isn't bad because it's used as tool for removal of contamination.
Is drinking (edit: small amounts of chlorine) particularly bad?
Not familiar with.
I recommend this documentary: https://rumble.com/v5m2l0k-flouride-in-our-drinkingwater.-documentary.html
I meant chlorine
My father (RIP) was a chemical engineer and very knowledgeable about chlorine safety, having been the safety officer at a chemical plant that made Freon and other industrial chemicals that required chlorine as a feed stock, and authored international shipping regulations re chlorine. He said if you could smell just a hint of chlorine in drinking water, you did not have to be concerned about pathogens in the water and a little bit was not harmful. I know, that is a very general statement and doesn't indicate what a safe level would be in a measurable sense.
Personally, I drink and cook with distilled water to avoid ingesting chlorine and fluoride.
Yes. I have read studies where multiple Chinese village wells were contaminated with differing levels of fluoride
Both IQ and fertility were lowered as fluoride presence increased
Not fluoride. Chlorine.
Chlorine is a byproduct during the water purification process. It naturally occurs in things like table salt (sodium chloride).
Fluoride is a by product for the fertilizer industry and its poison. Look at the small print on your toothpaste tube and tell me what is says?