Dear Readers,
This is a big week for the fluoride-free movement! First, the Fluoride Action Network, in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Mercola and Mercola.com, have proclaimed the week of August 8th-13th Fluoride Awareness Week. Each day Mercola.com will be publishing in-depth newsletters and interactive articles on various fluoride topics written by members of the Fluoride Action Network.
-Read Monday's article.
-Read Tuesday's article.
As part of the launch of Fluoride Awareness Week the Mercola team also helped FAN completely redesign our website. Once completed, the new website should make it easier to navigate through the large amount of information, research, and news on the effects of fluoride that FAN has created and collected over the past decade. The new site also has updated and improved "Take Action" pages, including an infant warning campaign page, and a "How to Start a Local Campaign" guide.
While most of the new site is complete, we are still working on transferring information from the old site, and fixing missing links and bugs as we find them. We ask for your patience as we make these improvements, and urge you to check back regularly as the site expands and improves.
We are happy to report that another community has rejected water fluoridation this week. On Monday, the Philomath City Council made it clear that they would stand by their May decision to ban fluoride from the city's water supply. The council voted 6-1 in favor of banning fluoridation after hearing public testimony over two separate meetings, and after hearing an hour of testimony from the Mayor in opposition to fluoridation.
Concerned for the safety of its citizens, the Philomath City Council had voted unanimously to end fluoridation on May 9th after the CDC's acknowledgement of the dental fluorosis epidemic, and the Department of Health and Human Services' proposed lowering of the recommended fluoride level. However, the vote was met with a public outcry from the medical and dental community, and the council voted to hold public hearings on the issue. These public hearings led to the council's final vote against fluoridation, and against the dental community's efforts to force fluoride on the citizens of Philomath, Oregon.
Paul Connett's two worlds come together in one poem
In addition to fighting fluoridation, FAN's Executive Director Paul Connett is very involved in fighting incineration and promoting sustainable ways of handling waste. Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface Carpet, was one of Paul's heros. For many years Mr. Anderson strove to make his company the first sustainable multinational corporation. He involved all of his employees in this mission. Sadly, Mr. Anderson passed away on Monday, August 8th after a long battle with cancer.
Mr. Anderson was an entrepreneur and green business pioneer, who led the way in promoting sustainable and environmentally friendly business practices since the early 1990's. He also spent the past decade focusing his time and energy on the business case for sustainability, delivering more than 1,000 speeches and authoring two books on the topic.
Mr. Anderson was known for reading a poem written by one of his employees at Interface that also holds meaning in our fight against fluoride:
Tomorrow's Child
Without a name; an unseen face
and knowing not your time nor place
Tomorrow's Child, though yet unborn,
I met you first last Tuesday morn.
A wise friend introduced us two,
and through his shining point of view
I saw a day that would see;
a day for you, but not for me.
Knowing you has changed my thinking
for I never had an inkling
That perhaps the things I do
might someday, somehow, threaten you.
Tomorrow's Child, my daughter-son,
I'm afraid I've just begun
To think of you and of your good,
though always having known I should.
Begin I will to weigh the cost
of what I squander; what I lost
If ever I forget that you
will someday come to live here too.
-Glen Thomas, employee Interface
You can learn more about Ray Anderson from this press release sent out by Interface.
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