Thought control at my daughter's School?

My Daughter came home the other day telling me that she doesn't want to drink bottled water anymore. She told me that she read an article in class that said how water bottles are polluting the earth and that bottle water was shown to be dirtier than tap water. She also read that many bottled waters are actually filtered tap water. She also mentioned that bottled water lacks fluoride that tap water provides.

Nothing upsets me more than brain wash education that is taught by well meaning professors and teachers.

Well I'm here to reverse the brainwashing :)

Yes it is true that purchasing bottled water is polluting the environment. To say that bottled water is dirtier than tap water is just a plain lie.

There are over 60,000 chemicals in our tap water, yet the EPA only regulates 91 chemicals!!
Scientists have found hundreds of these chemicals to be associated to cancer and other diseases even in small concentrations.

"Government scientists now generally agree, however, that many chemicals commonly found in drinking water pose serious risks at low concentrations"

In the article my daughter read a Nutrition Professor from New York University stated:

"First of all, water is water is water," says Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University. "Second, tap water in the developed world is not only cleaner than bottled water, but it has fluoride, which most bottled water does not. Mostly, you are paying for the convenience of the bottle."

NO water is NOT water is NOT water is NOT water !!

Besides the 60,000 plus unregulated chemicals that are found in our drinking water,
we also have to worry about the chlorine & fluoride that are purposely put into the drinking water.

Chlorine is used to kill pathogens and dangerous micro flora, but have you ever wondered what it is doing to your friendly intestinal bacteria?

Fluoride has been linked in over 23 studies including a recent Harvard University Study to lower the IQ level of children. It is a neurotoxin which causes neurological damage and has shown to be able to disrupt the thyroid gland and has been linked to certain cancers as well.

I feel sorry for these professors who don't keep up with the latest in scientific findings. I feel even sorrier for the people who listen to these "professionals" without doing their own research.

Growing up I kept hearing "NYC has the best tap water" this mantra kept being repeated by people parroting what the politicians and media told them.

I recommend everyone buy a filter that is able to remove the fluoride and chlorine out of their tap water. If you cant afford it now drink bottled water (although bottled has BPA which poses its own health risks)

I personally don't have a Fluoride Filter Yet, but I'm thinking of buying this one:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f090709_Water

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17water.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Professor Wants U.S. Population Cut 50%

During a speech earlier this year given by University of California-Riverside professor Richard Cardullo, the cottonseed derivative Gossypol is being proposed as an adequate sterilant to bring down the birthrate in the United States. Stating that the substance's permanent sterilization effects on males is already being considered for widespread use in China and many third world countries, Cardullo calls it "an option" for use within the United States. In addition to Gossypol, the professor advised the attending students to lower their standard of living if the earth is to continue carrying humans on its surface.

Interesting to note that the professor has recently been selected by the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to join the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) program, funded by the federal government.

As part of the university's online science lecture series, recorded on the campus earlier this year, the professor's lecture "Is Earth Overpopulated" is a classic neo-Malthusian regurgitation claiming the planet cannot carry much more people.

"If you want to minimize environmental impact, perhaps you should consider lowering your standard of living, for instance."

Cardullo also told people could reduce human impact on the earth by becoming vegetarians:

"One of the things we know is the production of meat is incredibly expensive," he said. "You are going to start hearing more and more about humans' carbon footprint, and one of the biggest contributions to that carbon footprint is the production of meat. ... We could do a lot simply by just becoming more vegetarian."

Although the professor tells his listening audience to "lower their standard of living" to minimize human impact on the earth, he stresses that this in itself isn't sufficient to lower fertility in the United States. Also, the professor continues, famine, disease, war and so on do not have the ability to effectively cull the human population.

"(...) we have got to do something about population as well. The United States, we are very affluent. ... we currently have a population of 313 million people. ... Altogether we gain one person every 15 seconds. ... If we want to take the population down to 150 million, all it would require in the next 100 years is to lower that birth rate -- because we are not going to do it through any other method, right? That would be horrible."

http://www.infowars.com/uc-professor-eyes-permanent-sterilant-to-cull-us-population/