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| Thanks Alex. | |
| We're standing outside of Hopdoddy's, a local hamburger restaurant located in South Austin. | |
| Now this is just one of the many restaurants in town choosing organic and locally produced ingredients over GMO and conventionally farmed foods. | |
| However, Hopdoddy's has taken this trend one step further. | |
| They're also removing the fluoride as well as other toxins from the drinking water that they serve their customers. | |
| You'd be surprised. | |
| It's a small percentage that really appreciate it. | |
| But the ones that do understand what fluoride does to you, they are ecstatic. | |
| They love seeing that. | |
| Sodium fluoride is a chemical byproduct of aluminum, phosphate, cement, steel, and nuclear weapons manufacturing. | |
| It reduces IQ, impairs memory and learning, it has shown to poison kidney function, it causes bone disease as well as reduce thyroid activity, and is a proven cause of cancer. | |
| Well, not only is it bad for humans, it's also bad for animals of all kinds as well. | |
| I just don't understand why fluoride needs to be in the water to begin with. | |
| I do not think it belongs in our water supply. | |
| I said it's for promoting tooth health, oral hygiene, stuff like that. | |
| It's supposed to be good for your teeth. | |
| Anything in the water supply doesn't sound like something that I'd be for. | |
| So if I know something's being put into a water supply that doesn't necessarily have to be there, I'd rather it not be there. | |
| Back in elementary school they made you like gargle that stuff and like and like wash your mouth out with it but I just remember it made me sick every time I had it so it's like I don't know if it needs to be in my water. | |
| I think it's just awful. | |
| I don't think anything should be added to the water supply that doesn't need to be added. | |
| And it just it just sounds scary. | |
| Anything that's being put into a city's water supply without without everybody's consent. | |
| So would you like to see all the restaurants turn the corner like you are and remove the fluoride from the drinking water that they serve their customers? | |
| Well, I'd like to see the city turn the corner and remove all the fluoride and not burden everyone with putting RO systems in their restaurants. | |
| I think that'd be the best way to do it. | |
| But I think that we can get the word out by doing that and I would love to see more restaurants do that. | |
| Well, you know, a lot of advocates are starting to educate people, and more and more people are becoming aware of the dangers of sodium fluoride. | |
| In fact, right down the street, Hopdoddy's, they've made a conscious decision to remove the sodium fluoride from the drinking water that they serve their customers. | |
| What do you think about that? | |
| I think it's great. | |
| I actually go over there quite a bit. | |
| I appreciate it, yeah. | |
| I don't want... They can filter out anything. | |
| The more filtration of the water, the better. | |
| I think it's great that they're standing by something. | |
| They believe in it. | |
| I'd like it if a lot more businesses started to do that. | |
| They actually spent the money to take it out of their own water supply. | |
| I think that's pretty cool. | |
| They don't need to spend money to take it out. | |
| It just needs to not be there to begin with. | |
| I'd like it personally if Austin stopped putting the fluoride in the water altogether. | |
| The majority of people we talk to on the street flat out don't approve of sodium fluoride being added to their water. | |
| Which is why we applaud individual activists and activist groups like the Fluoride Action Network who stand in the way of fluoridating public water supplies. | |
| And thanks to restaurants like HopDotty's playing a role in the health of their customers and their community. | |
| I'm Darren McBreen for InfoWars Nightly News. |
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