Re: fluoride and bone meal

[Guest guest]

At 10:33 PM 9/5/06 +0200, you wrote:

>(Where I come from (Texas), the vast majority of cows I've seen

>(and snuggled) are drinking well water that isn't treated with

>anything. I'd imagine it'd be similar in general for cows raised in

>rural areas?)

Doesn't all that cow-snuggling interfere with your sugared-monkey-girl

fixin's?

MFJ

" The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't

changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't

change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. " ~ Doris

Lessing

[Guest guest]

On 9/5/06, F. Jewett <mfjewett@...> wrote:

> At 10:33 PM 9/5/06 +0200, you wrote:

> >(Where I come from (Texas), the vast majority of cows I've seen

> >(and snuggled) are drinking well water that isn't treated with

> >anything. I'd imagine it'd be similar in general for cows raised in

> >rural areas?)

>

>

> Doesn't all that cow-snuggling interfere with your sugared-monkey-girl

> fixin's?

I feel life is all about balance.

(Except when it comes to sugar.)

[Guest guest]

At 11:29 PM 9/5/06 +0200, you wrote:

>> Doesn't all that cow-snuggling interfere with your sugared-monkey-girl

>> fixin's?

>

>I feel life is all about balance.

>

>

>

>(Except when it comes to sugar.)

That would really mess up the cow-tipping, then.

MFJ

" The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't

changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't

change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. " ~ Doris

Lessing

[Guest guest]

It was me. Areas of Texas have naturally occuring fluoride in the

range of 4 ppm, which is 4 times the " safe " dosage for humans. In

the " mineral " water with high fluoride, calcium in the water can

bind with the fluoride, making it fairly inert, which makes me think

that bones may not be so dangerous. Still, if the bones are stained

with either brown, white, or yellow, or if they have strange ridges

in them I wouldn't eat them. That's some signs of fluorosis on

bones, tho not having those doesn't necessarily mean they're safe.

Actually the aortas of the hearts have some of the highest

concentrations of fluoride; one had over 8000 ppm!

Vitamins C, D, and (natural) iodine are protective against chronic

fluoride poisoning.

It's very confusing to research because some forms of fluoride are

pretty inert but usually they don't specify what form of fluoride it

is that they're talking about. The fluoride anion that's the

residue from sulfuryl fluoride fumigation is one of the most

reactive, thus the most dangerous. A chemist told me you'll know if

you've ingested too much of it because you'll immediately vomit.

Sounds like that wouldn't be good for the food industry!

- Renate

>

> Hi,

>

> Someone posted recently that bone meal might contain excessive

amounts

> of fluoride due to the fact that cows may be drinking fluoridated

> water and fluoride concentrates in the bones.

>

> But bone meal seems like a really good source of calcium for people

> who can't overload on dairy (allergies etc). After reading another

> post about North Indians suffering from fluoridosis after tomato

> gradually replaced the tamarind in their diets (tamarind containing

> somesuch which binds to fluoride and their water being naturally

full

> of fluoride in dry summer months), I wondered whether it'd make

sense

> to drink some tamarind water with the bone meal. Tamarind paste is

> dirt cheap in any Indian or Asian market and easily made drinkable

by

> a soak in hot water.

>

> Shrug. I like the concoction as a chaser to cod liver oil. We'll

see

> what it does to the ol' bod.

>

>

>

> (But how common is it really for cows to be drinking fluoridated

> water? Where I come from (Texas), the vast majority of cows I've

seen

> (and snuggled) are drinking well water that isn't treated with

> anything. I'd imagine it'd be similar in general for cows raised

in

> rural areas?)

>