Ballina Flouride Vote Has Experts Worried

[icyfroth]

Ballina will vote on Thursday on whether to reject fluoridation of its water supply. If it does, it will join nearby Lismore Council and 17 Queensland councils that have voted no to fluoride this year.

Children living in parts of northern NSW without fluoridation already have the worst teeth in the state. They have nearly double the number of decayed, missing and filled teeth compared with other children, according to the most recent dental health survey.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/ballina-flouride-vote-has-experts-worried-20130821-2safg.html#ixzz2cfdzree...

Some anti-fluoride activists, such as Merilyn Haines, the president of Queenslanders for Safe Water Air and Food, argue that fluoride is a poison that is used as an insectide to kill roaches and ants.

But Ballina Council member Keith Williams, who proposed the motion, said he saw it as a human rights issue.

“I don't dispute the scientific evidence of dentistry that it prevents cavities, but I don't believe it is appropriate to add a medication to the water supply without everybody's consent.”

He does have a point there. There's something sinister about a government putting poison in your drinking water and telling the public it's for their own good.

 Still, I've been drinking flourodised water here in Sydney for years and it hasn't done me any harm, and I still have my own teeth, albeit with lots of fillings, lol.

Surely the rise in tooth decay in children in the last few decades can't be solely due to unflourodised bottled water!?

Are we taking into account that children are drinking more soft drinks and juices and less water than ever before? 

Should councils flourodise drinking water?

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Well said AM3.....unconfirmed propaganda....sorry about the dodgie post!

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

It's a huge controversy isn't it? 

Not just confined to a few unwashed hippies in northern NSW

 

 They are the main objectors in Australia

Too much anti,unconfirmed propaganda stirring up the gullible and uninformed.

 The person I quoted in the Israeli post is against fluoridated water, but is very scathing of all the tripe published by the anti's on the net.

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 "They are the main objectors in Australia"

You know the objectors personally, do you?

"The person I quoted in the Israeli post is against fluoridated water, but is very scathing of all the tripe published by the anti's on the net."

Of course he would be. There are some very powerful industries interested in keeping water-fluoridation up, according to what I've read in the last few days. And that's just information freely available on the net.

[topsidesoul]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

It's a huge controversy isn't it? 

Not just confined to a few unwashed hippies in northern NSW

 

 They are the main objectors in Australia

Too much anti,unconfirmed propaganda stirring up the gullible and uninformed.

 The person I quoted in the Israeli post is against fluoridated water, but is very scathing of all the tripe published by the anti's on the net.

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 "They are the main objectors in Australia"

You know the objectors personally, do you?

"The person I quoted in the Israeli post is against fluoridated water, but is very scathing of all the tripe published by the anti's on the net."

Of course he would be. There are some very powerful industries interested in keeping water-fluoridation up, according to what I've read in the last few days. And that's just information freely available on the net.

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Is it  the guy from the Oral B ads?

Is that why Oral B cannot show his face?

faceless guy who puts fluoride in our water?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxNrBVT8dgw

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

.......ROFL

[warningtriangle]

Find me a water filter (mains or stand alone) that can actually remove flouride.  99.9% type don't.

[twinkles**stars]

Go to your local plumbing supply, they will be able to tell you all about them. There are quite a few these days that remove fluoride but they are costly as are the filters

[izabsmiling]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

The majority of the people are happy to have fluoridated water. For the minority who don't like it .. drink bottled water (without added fluoridation) or get filters that will filter it out of your  home tap water... simple.

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The majority of people probably either don't know or don't think twice about it, or know anything about fluouride.

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everyone has a voice though don't they ?

[ca04]

regardless of it helping or not it highlights the problem of governments in Australia where they ask the people what to do then completly ignore the wishes of the people.This is more so in the case of local governments who like to assign themselves more powers than they legaly have.

[izabsmiling]

It was voted on and voted for .The majority spoke as did (and should) the minority ....and of course continue to do so even after the vote .