Poudre Valley Green Party Calls on Fort Collins to End Fluoridation

The Poudre Valley Green Party, the Larimer County affiliate of the Green Party of the United States, has decided to oppose continued fluoridation of Fort Collins city water. Noting that the City’s Water Board itself has raised serious health and safety concerns about the “very aggressive and hazardous” chemicals used for fluoridation, the local Green Party recommends “when in doubt, leave it out!”

“It defies common sense to spend half a million dollars we don’t have to continue placing untested industrial toxic waste byproducts into our drinking water,” according to Eric Fried, a member of the Green Party steering committee.  “If fluoridation reduces cavities, why are cavity rates falling just as fast in Europe, which is over 90% unfluoridated?”

“The municipal water supply is a poor vehicle for drug experimentation without informed consent,” Fried went on. “In the Choice City, where is our choice not to consume Cargill fertilizer smokestack waste?”

The Poudre Valley Green Party has adopted the following resolution:

Whereas the National Toxicology Program has requested research be conducted on hydrofluorosilicic acid because of a lack of toxicological information (Federal Register Vol. 67, number 113, pp 40319-49333, June 12, 2026), and

Whereas the particular fluoridation chemicals currently used by Fort Collins and other municipalities are pollution scrubber byproducts that contain numerous contaminants including arsenic, a known carcinogen, and

Whereas fluoridating the public water supply prevents people from choosing not to drink fluoridated water, and

Whereas tooth decay rates are falling in communities with unfluoridated as well as fluoridated water, and

Whereas upgrading city water treatment facilities to continue fluoridating would cost about $500,000 at a time when the city budget is being cut in many other areas,

Therefore Be It Resolved that the Poudre Valley Green Party calls upon the City of Fort Collins and other municipalities to discontinue the use of these fluoridation chemicals until such time as they have been proven safe and effective.