Special Reports & Tweets - 20111108_SpecialReport-2_Alex
Aired: 2011-11-08
Duration: 03:20


=== Fluoride in the Water Supply? (03:09) ===

[00:00:02]  Thanks Alex.
[00:00:02]  We're standing outside of Hopdoddy's, a local hamburger restaurant located in South Austin.
[00:00:08]  Now this is just one of the many restaurants in town choosing organic and locally produced ingredients over GMO and conventionally farmed foods.
[00:00:17]  However, Hopdoddy's has taken this trend one step further.
[00:00:20]  They're also removing the fluoride as well as other toxins from the drinking water that they serve their customers.
[00:00:28]  You'd be surprised.
[00:00:29]  It's a small percentage that really appreciate it.
[00:00:32]  But the ones that do understand what fluoride does to you, they are ecstatic.
[00:00:36]  They love seeing that.
[00:00:38]  Sodium fluoride is a chemical byproduct of aluminum, phosphate, cement, steel, and nuclear weapons manufacturing.
[00:00:47]  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.
[00:00:59]  Well, not only is it bad for humans, it's also bad for animals of all kinds as well.
[00:01:04]  I just don't understand why fluoride needs to be in the water to begin with.
[00:01:08]  I do not think it belongs in our water supply.
[00:01:11]  I said it's for promoting tooth health, oral hygiene, stuff like that.
[00:01:15]  It's supposed to be good for your teeth.
[00:01:17]  Anything in the water supply doesn't sound like something that I'd be for.
[00:01:22]  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.
[00:01:28]  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.
[00:01:40]  I think it's just awful.
[00:01:40]  I don't think anything should be added to the water supply that doesn't need to be added.
[00:01:43]  And it just it just sounds scary.
[00:01:45]  Anything that's being put into a city's water supply without without everybody's consent.
[00:01:50]  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?
[00:01:57]  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.
[00:02:05]  I think that'd be the best way to do it.
[00:02:07]  But I think that we can get the word out by doing that and I would love to see more restaurants do that.
[00:02:12]  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.
[00:02:18]  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.
[00:02:27]  What do you think about that?
[00:02:28]  I think it's great.
[00:02:29]  I actually go over there quite a bit.
[00:02:31]  I appreciate it, yeah.
[00:02:32]  I don't want... They can filter out anything.
[00:02:34]  The more filtration of the water, the better.
[00:02:35]  I think it's great that they're standing by something.
[00:02:38]  They believe in it.
[00:02:39]  I'd like it if a lot more businesses started to do that.
[00:02:41]  They actually spent the money to take it out of their own water supply.
[00:02:45]  I think that's pretty cool.
[00:02:47]  They don't need to spend money to take it out.
[00:02:49]  It just needs to not be there to begin with.
[00:02:51]  I'd like it personally if Austin stopped putting the fluoride in the water altogether.
[00:02:55]  The majority of people we talk to on the street flat out don't approve of sodium fluoride being added to their water.

=== Darren Praises Community Activism (00:23) ===

[00:03:02]  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.
[00:03:12]  And thanks to restaurants like HopDotty's playing a role in the health of their customers and their community.
[00:03:18]  I'm Darren McBreen for InfoWars Nightly News.