So why is it, you know, that Europe is supposedly 98% fluoride-free, whereas in America we're 75%?
That's right.
Yet most people in America are persuaded that everybody fluoridates their water.
And if you're living in a town like Albany or Long Island or Ithaca or somewhere, or Portland or Spokane,
you're meant to believe that you're behind the ball here.
You're, you know, you're against progress. You're not doing the right thing.
But the vast majority of the population of the world does not drink fluoridated water.
Most of the countries do not fluoridate their water. Only about 30.
And most of Europe, 98% of Europe, does not fluoridate.
Only eight countries in the world have more than 50% of their population drinking water.
America, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Israel, Singapore, Malaysia and Colombia.
Only eight.
Now, the reasons, there's two main reasons why European countries explain why they never went along with this American practice.
One was they didn't feel it was right to force it on people that didn't want it.
And secondly, they didn't think that all the health issues had been resolved.
And that's still the case. The health issues have not been resolved.
If anything, the health issues have got more and more serious and more and more evidence that they exist.
And it was explained to me by people in the Netherlands, particularly Dr. Hans Muhlenberg.
He said, you know, in the Netherlands, we know what it's like as a country to lose your freedom,
to live in a totalitarian society, which was run by the Nazis because the Nazis overran Netherlands.
And so we know what it's like. And we who pride ourselves in freedom in the glorious United States,
we've allowed this very important freedom to be bulldozed out of our lives.
Guys, you are meant to have the right to informed consent to medication.
What we're doing in the Florida community is we're doing to everyone what a doctor can do to no one.
A doctor who says to you, he says, look, this glass of water is going to do wonderful things for you.
It's going to cure your ingrowing toenails. It's going to make you less bald.
It's going to X, Y, and Z. Drink it. And you say, no, I don't want to drink it.
You must drink it. You've got to drink it. I'm your doctor. I'm telling you, you've got to drink it.
If he or she tried to do that to you, he or she could lose their license. You're not.
You've got to tell the patient what the drug is good for. You've got to tell them what it's bad for, the side effects.
And then they, in theory, make up their minds. This has been ripped away from us.