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Ferret7446 42 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its...

The difference is that fluoride is effectively an industrial waste product and thus it benefits multiple parties to use it. If vitamins were also an industrial waste product, we would indeed be adding them to lots of things.

gruez 42 days ago [–]

>The difference is that fluoride is effectively an industrial waste product and thus it benefits multiple parties to use it

Source? Moreover, how much of a market can municipal water fluoridation create that companies would bother lobbying for it?

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