Florida became the second state in the country after Utah to ban local governments from adding fluoride to their public water systems.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill at Simpson Lakes in Dade City – about 38 miles northeast of Tampa – on Thursday. The law is set to go into effect on July 1.
“We certainly now, in our society in 2025, we have the ability to deliver fluoride through toothpaste and all these other things,” DeSantis said at an event for the signing of the bill. “You don’t gotta force it and take away people’s choices. But the whole crux of the issue is you should be able to make decisions on the basis of informed consent.”
“Forcing this in the water supply is trying to take that away from people who may want to make a different decision rather than to have this in water,” DeSantis added.
Because Florida didn’t have enough gap-toothed rednecks already….
“You don’t gotta force it and take away people’s choices. But the whole crux of the issue is you should be able to make decisions on the basis of informed consent.” “Forcing this in the water supply is trying to take that away from people who may want to make a different decision rather than to have this in water,” DeSantis added.
Next they should ban Oxygen. Because forcing oxygen into the air is trying to take away the informed consent of people who want to make a different decision than to breathe it in.
Oxygen causes oxidation.
Get rid of it!
What if I want dirty air and water? Why would you take that away from me???
“informed” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Your constituents aren’t informed, you disingenuous polyp.
Another victory against the woke forces fighting tooth decay!!!
Literally the only chemicals any Republicans seem to care about regulating are flouride, progestin, and estradiol.
Cyanide, mercury, and benzene are all fair game.
Clearly Big Fluoride isn’t paying off the right people!
This but unironically.
DOW Chemical could have shut this down with a few Trumpcoin purchases.
don’t forget glyphosate & dioxins
It owns the libs, therefore, it’s good, obviously.
I recently found out my municipality does not add flouride to most of our water, because it’s naturally flouridated enough already to meet the recommended amount.
Apparently concrete water tanks, the type on a lot of rural houses, are naturally fluoridated. My kids have really good teeth which was a surprise given the number of fillings I had as a child.
Dental plan … no more fluoridated water
He’s taking the fluoride out of fluorida
90% of the people that agree with this legislation are living off diet soda, lite beer, and energy drinks - not pure water.
Hey… 😥
Drink water. It’s ok to drink other things, but in moderation.
Is that “hey” as in “Hey, I think this legislation is stupid, but yes, I never drink water and bathing my teeth in high pH drinks all day long”
My teef are fine. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
You got more than one toof? Lucky
…you ever take it off any sweet jumps?..
Don’t listen to these fools, your body is a temple. 🙏
This moment of enlightenment brought to you by Mountain Dew Buddha Blast … like a holy hand grenade to your pancreas ™
It’s got electrolytes. It’s what plants crave
And already lost their teeth years ago.
Dumbasses
Clown car shit
Florida is replacing the fluoride with citric acid and splenda.
Soon, electrolytes. It’s what plants crave!
“You don’t gotta force it and take away people’s choices.”
Like, I don’t know, maybe abortion desantis YOU FUCKING MORON.
Good. Let all of them suffer.
Sorry, not sorry, I don’t give a crap anymore about US citizens. Nothing personal, but you guys let this happen, you guys gave the world trump TWICE. He said he’d fuck all of us over, you laughed, even though you already have seen him do that before, and now you’re all leopard faced.
If you’re an American, then it sucks to be you but you’re getting all that you deserve, enjoy your rotting teeth that you can’t remove because dentists and other healthcare will become unaffordable soon. I don’t care, go suffer in silence
I don’t know the best way of bringing this up, but the Americans complaining about the damage of Trump aren’t the ones who voted for him. They don’t deserve to be doomed to a fate they didn’t choose.
This isn’t new. US politics had been a clown show since at least 5 decades now. It’s not my country, it’s not my problem, yet they always make it my problem z they always make it a problem for the entire world.
Enough already.
Soon? It already is
Nothing personal
Sure sounds like it’s personal. But if all of us are to blame then please enlighten us, let’s hear about how you would have prevented Trump from coming to power a second time if you were American.
Protest? Look at France, take the fucking country on hold until this shit is over?
Or, you know, VOTE? Had everyone voted, we wouldn’t be having this problem.
How about crippling the country until citizens United gets repealed, and for good measure, laws are put back in place to enforce news organizations to be truthful again?
There is so much that could be done but you can’t even get your government to have remotely useful laws in gun control in a place where litter children regularly get slaughtered.
People are literally toying with idead about bullet proof blankets and teachers in kindergarten with guns. Your country is fucking insane and it’s affecting the rest of the world so yeah, I dgaf anymore about amerucans dying, you’ve done it to yourself.
Get your shit together
Once again proving Republicans are Fuuuucking stupid.
For the purity of all our natural bodily fluids.