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Zorro

(17,096 posts)
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 12:52 PM Mar 20

Florida lawmakers looking to ban fluoride statewide

Legislators want to prevent local governments from using “health-related” water additives.

Two sweeping bills are moving through Florida’s capitol that would prohibit local governments from adding fluoride to drinking water.

Both bills, HB 651 and SB 700, are wide-ranging, covering a slew of topics from electric vehicle charging stations to mosquito control budgets and concealed weapon carry rules. Neither explicitly use the word fluoride.

The Florida House’s Housing, Agriculture and Tourism Subcommittee approved HB 651 in a vote Tuesday, which bars the “use of any additives included primarily for health-related purposes.” The bill is a Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services agency package, and the range of topics addressed fall under its purview.

And a similar measure, SB 700, prohibits the use of a “water quality additive” for purposes other than contaminants or improving water quality — also excluding anything used for “health-related purposes.”

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/03/19/florida-lawmakers-looking-ban-fluoride-statewide/

"Ignorance is Strength". That's the Florida Republican Party's motto.
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Florida lawmakers looking to ban fluoride statewide (Original Post) Zorro Mar 20 OP
Cuz rotten teeth are so on brand Easterncedar Mar 20 #1
Make FLA toothless agin!!!! odins folly Mar 20 #2
So when are they going to ban milk with Vitamin D? purrmaid Mar 20 #3

Easterncedar

(4,119 posts)
1. Cuz rotten teeth are so on brand
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 01:13 PM
Mar 20

There’s nothing good that government can do that these morons won’t destroy in their devotion to their own ignorance.

odins folly

(337 posts)
2. Make FLA toothless agin!!!!
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 01:47 PM
Mar 20

Nothing says F'n lower Alabama like a good set of toothless gums...

No offense meant towards any Alabama citizen who is NOT maga...

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