Vote No! in Australian Fluoridation Poll

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Vote No! in Australian Fluoridation Poll

 

 

 

 

 

31st March 2005

 

Channel 9 TV, Australia - is running an online opinion poll on ADDING

'FLUORIDE' TO THE WATER SUPPLY.

 

 

Please click the link below and vote NO.

 

http://www.extraonline.com.au/your_say/viewpoint/current.asp

 

Results so far are 78% NO FLUORIDE.

 

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS

 

PLEASE CLICK LINK BELOW AND VOTE NOW BEFORE THE POLL FINISHES - NO.

 

 

12 Reasons to reject fluoridation!

 

1. Only individuals have the right to decide if they or their

children take *drugs. This point should end the debate on compulsory

artificial fluoridation. (*The U.S. Food and Drug Administration

clearly show that fluoride is not a food, nutrient or dietary

supplement. They state, Sodium fluoride used for therapeutic effect

[Ed. e.g. fluoridation] would be a drug, not a mineral nutrient.

F.D.A. 1963.)

 

2. Claiming fluoride is natural as it can be found in the

Earths crust or water is misleading. You can similarly claim that

arsenic, mercury, radium and other poisons, also found in earth or

water, are natural. Fluorides in fluoridation are toxic waste from

fertiliser factory chimneys.

 

3. Fluoridation is undemocratic. Before major decisions, people

have a right to hear both sides, not just propaganda. We have an

inalienable right to have a say (referendum) if we choose.

 

4. Of every 10,000 litres of public water fluoridated, probably

less than 1 litre is drunk by young children, with 9,999 litres used

for thousands of other purposes, e.g. agricultural, industrial,

cleaning, aquariums, pools, food processing, vehicular etc. Many

children prefer milk or juices.

 

5. Doctors have legal and medical restrictions in prescribing

drugs. The patient's medical history, age, weight, sex, illnesses,

susceptibilities and other drugs taken, must all be determined. After

an adequate medical examination, prescriptions must be for a specific

drug, duration, person and dose - never `take this whenever you're

thirsty'!. Adverse side-effects must be explained. No doctor in their

right mind would medicate an entire population, let alone for all

their lives.

 

6. Among experts, the controversy rages over fluoridation. Leaving

aside whos right, if the safety of any drug is so hugely

controversial, doesn't common sense demand that it not be used at all,

let alone be forced on millions of people, for all their lives.

 

7. Less than 4% of the worlds population is fluoridated,

despite 50 years of massive, world-wide, well-financed, media

protected propaganda. With such a huge rejection or failure to take up

fluoridation in other countries and all of west continental EU, why

would we want to?

 

8. Fluoride is so toxic, it has a major disease named after it:

fluorosis. Next to dental caries, the most common damage to teeth is

caused by fluoride; dental fluorosis. This white to brown mottling

[breakdown of the tooth structure] is the first visible sign of

chronic fluoride poisoning of the body. All three major Australian

government inquiries into fluoridation (Tas 1968, Vic 1979, ACT 89-91)

reported that up to 10% of children will develop mottled teeth if

water is fluoridated. In practice, this figure is as high as 48% (UK

Govt. York Report, 2000).

 

9. The World Health Organisation's International Agency for

Cancer Research stated sodium silicofluoride [as used for fluoridation

in Australia] is, " .. an insecticide, fungicide, bactericide and

rodenticide [rat poison] .. [and] a fluoridating agent for municipal

drinking-water " .

 

10. Decay is caused by a poor diet and lots of devitalised sugar

and other carbohydrates (22 teaspoons of sugar a day, 44 kilograms

average yearly). The only reason for badly decayed teeth is they

weren't serviced earlier. Parents often can't afford the high costs of

dentists (earning up to $500,000 yearly). However, no one should use

drugs to try to handle children's eating problems.

 

11. Authorities often make mistakes. Fluoridation is claimed to be

safe, but so was DDT, Copper 7, 24-D, the Dalkon Shield, 245-T,

Deildrin, Thalidomide and more recently - Vioxx - all shown, later, to

be harmful or deadly. But at least they weren't compulsory.

Fluoridation is!

 

12. If someone tried to force us to take a pill every time we drank

a glass of water, we'd suggest they go where it's eternally hot. The

only difference with fluoridation is that the pill is dissolved in the

water before they make us take it.

 

Dennis Stevenson, Parliamentary Member, ACT Govt. Fluoridation Inquiry

89-91.

All answers can be fully evidenced. johannaz