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?

[twinkles**stars]

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Ban_Fluoridation_of_Australian_Drinking_Water/?copy

We the people of Australia call for an end to the fluoridation of our nations' water supplies.

Fluoride goes to everyone regardless of age, health or vulnerability. The dose cannot be controlled because people drink different amounts of water - the highest doses of fluoride are going to bottle-fed babies.

Over 4,000 professionals have signed a statement calling for an end to water fluoridation worldwide. More and more studies indicate that fluoride can interfere with biochemistry in fundamental ways.

Any benefit to the teeth is through topical application and is achieved via toothpaste - Sodium fluorosilicate is a

toxin that should not be ingested. Tooth decay was already coming down before fluoridation started, and does not go up when fluoridation is stopped.

Please stop the non-consensual medication of your people with a known toxin.

For more info go to:

http://www.fluorideaustralia.org/

http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/

http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/proponent_claims.pdf

[patchoo78]

I had no fluoride tablets (that I can remember) not sure if the water contained fluoride when I was a kid but my teeth are fine. Only ever had one cavity (in a baby tooth) and that was most likely due to fairy floss from the circus. I still have all my teeth and don't have any fillings....I only drink tap water in my tea and coffee, but I'm not sure if we have fluoride in our water here

[icyfroth]

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

THat's not my opinion. THat's fact.

Brushing your teeth alone with tooth brush does not prevent decay. Fact

Water Fluoridation reduces decay rate. Fact

Water FLoridation saves people and government money. Fact

Less decay means less pain and suffering for kids. Fact. 

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Fact is that in countries where they don't fluoridate drinking water, their rates of tooth decay are no more or less than countries where they do.

Good dental hygiene and good diet reduces tooth decay.

All the flouride in the world in the drinking water won't combat rotting teeth due to bad bad diet and bad dental hygiene.

[icyfroth]

I wanted to add this link:

Fluoridation by country:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoridation_by_country

[twinkles**stars]

Europe Many European countries have rejected water fluoridation in general. This includes: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,[36] Scotland[37] Iceland, and Italy.[citation needed] A 2003 survey of over 500 Europeans from 16 countries concluded that "the vast majority of people opposed water fluoridation".[38]