[bsder]

Citing: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24308394/ which recommends flouridating salt.

"Children and adults of the low socio-economic strata tend to have substantially more untreated caries than higher strata. Salt fluoridation is by far the cheapest method for improving oral health."

Sure, good for you that you're in one of the higher socioeconomic strata who can take care of their teeth. Not everyone else is.

[hammock]

>recommends flouridating salt

That is a scary recommendation. Would be very hard to avoid fluoride if restaurants, packaged food etc all used fluoridated salt

[epgui]

It’s not particularly scary. In fact almost all salt has added iodine for public health reasons.

[hammock]

Iodine and fluoride aren’t really the same thing.

Iodine is essential, you cannot survive without it, and it is added to supplement a deficiency.

Fluoride is not essential, you can survive without it, and its addition is purely therapeutic, not due to some deficiency

[epgui]

As a biochemist, I know this perfectly well. But the motivation behind your “this is terrifying” was left as an exercise to the reader, so there was no way of distinguishing it from “omg the chemicals”.

[newZWhoDis]

It already is that way. Your steak came from a cow that drank fluoridated water, the salad was watered constantly with fluoride. Your bread was baked with fluoride water, same with your coffee/beer/tea. Your Mayonnaise even.

[hammock]

Doubtful on the steak and salad. That water typically gets pulled from different kinds of wells, not municipal drinking water supply