The Fluoride Action Network reports raising $3,515 from 13 donors, bringing its drive to $69,362 from 295 supporters, and publishes Portland activist Rick North's account of why he backs the group after a 21-year career with the American Cancer Society.
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New Evidence of Harm from Fluoridation
Fluoride Action Network opens a look back at 2015, with campaign manager Stuart Cooper summarizing studies he says show harm from fluoridation, starting with one on ADHD. The bulletin also reports $65,847 raised from 280 donors toward a $75,000 goal.
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Join in FAN's "12-days of Christmas" Competition
The Fluoride Action Network reports raising $62,827 from 264 supporters toward a $75,000 Christmas Eve goal, and invites donors to guess the campaign's final dollar and donor totals in a 12 days of Christmas competition.
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Protecting Your Family from Fluoride
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin combining a fundraising update, $47,422 from 235 supporters, with campaign manager Stuart Cooper's summary of the group's advice on avoiding fluoride from water and other sources.
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"The Hanukkah Miracle" (FAN exclusive)
The Fluoride Action Network reports its fundraiser has reached $39,978 from 218 supporters, then explains Israel's “Hanukkah Miracle”: new health minister Yaakov Litzmann overturned the country's fluoridation ban without offering a scientific basis.
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Kyle's Story, Part 3: What's wrong with that turkey?
FAN's fundraiser reached $38,968 from 207 supporters after Dr. Mercola's matching pledge. Paul Connett introduces part three of a mother's account of her son Kyle's fluoride sensitivity, arguing no health agency has funded research into individual sensitivity to fluoride.
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Kyle's Story, Part 2: Showers that hurt
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin pairing a fundraising update, $33,036 from 182 donors, with part two of a mother's account of her autistic son Kyle, whom she describes as hypersensitive to fluoridated water, including while showering and bathing.
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Kyle's Story: A Mother's Letter to FAN Members
In a letter to Fluoride Action Network members, Audrey Adams describes her son Kyle, 30 and autistic, whom she says is severely hypersensitive to fluoride, and credits FAN's website and advocates with helping her work out how to protect him. The letter also updates FAN's fundraiser.
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New Fluoride/Brain Study Could End Fluoridation
The National Toxicology Program says evidence linking fluoride to impaired brain development is now sufficient to warrant investigating effects on learning and memory, FAN reports, citing a 2012 Harvard meta-review and a 2014 Lancet paper naming fluoride a developmental neurotoxin.
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Are You Consuming These Livestock Drugs Without Knowing It?
A 2010 Inspector General report found beef released to the public carrying penicillin, florfenicol, sulfa drugs, ivermectin, flunixin and heavy metals. The writer contrasts this with the European Commission's 1989 hormone ban and its view that steroid hormones are tied to certain cancers.
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FAN Competition: Millions Could Read Your Message
The Fluoride Action Network invites supporters to a free December 12 teleconference reviewing the year in fluoride, offers library access to weekend donors, and launches a meme contest after its corroded-injection-room image reached over 4.2 million people on Facebook.
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Fluoridation and Human Rights
Writing on Human Rights Day, the Fluoride Action Network argues that no government should add chemicals such as fluoride to drinking water to treat people rather than the water, calling it a violation of the right to informed consent that most European countries respect.
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"We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it any more!"
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising bulletin reports that Port Angeles, Washington voted against fluoridation, and reprints letters between former Crescent City councillor Donna Westfall and Peel councillor John Sprovieri, who say no US or Canadian agency will answer their safety questions.
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Protect your gut from Roundup!
A promotion for a November 23, 2015 conference call in which the Institute for Responsible Technology interviews Dr. Zach Bush on laboratory research into glyphosate and the tight junctions between intestinal cells, and a supplement called RESTORE. Listeners get a 20 percent discount code.
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Fluoridation Chemical Company Fined $2 Billion
The Fluoride Action Network reports that EPA and the Justice Department fined Mosaic Fertilizer $2 billion on October 1 for hazardous waste violations. FAN notes Mosaic sells fluorosilicic acid, which EPA consent decrees call a hazardous waste, to public drinking water systems.
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Report reveals Feds didn't protect communities of color from fluoridation: FAN calls for 5-step alternative
The Fluoride Action Network handed the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group a 100-page report saying officials have long known Black Americans have more dental fluorosis; FOIA records it obtained put 2005 rates at 58% versus 32% of Whites.
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Bad for bees, bad for our waters - enewsletter from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety's report "Water Hazard" documents widespread contamination of US waters by neonicotinoid insecticides, notes that up to 95% of seed coatings ends up in the environment rather than the crop, and calls on EPA to suspend the pesticides' registrations.
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Report finds most fast food chains serve meat raised on drugs
A scorecard from consumer, health and environmental groups gave 20 of the 25 largest US fast food chains an F on antibiotics in their meat supply; Panera, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts passed. Some 109 organisations wrote to the chains' chief executives.
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