Fluoride a concern
Letters to the editor
What a sad day for all Queenslanders when Premier Anna Bligh decreed that every man, woman and child will be forced to ingest fluoridated drinking water. Fluoride is a highly toxic chemical substance made from the waste product during the manufacture of insecticides. Scientific studies, with all the variables controlled, have been performed in laboratories and there is proof that fluoride is highly toxic and causes cancer in animals. No scientific studies in the human population have ever been done, because there are too many variables in humans, which cannot be controlled.
Why spend millions of dollars of taxpayer's money to build machinery to pollute the drinking water with a known carcinogen? Fluoride is a highly toxic chemical substance that also has a cumulative effect, which means that the human body does not have a system to rid the body of ingested fluoride toxins. Consequently the fluoride accumulates and remains in our bodies throughout the lifetime. With clever media management, the general public has been led to believe that a cancer-causing chemical is good for our health.
Who are the players in this scheme? The dental association knows that a few drops of fluoride and a few minutes of time to apply it to the teeth generate a charge of $65, which is good for business. Monsanto, the giant in the insecticide industry also benefits, their highly toxic waste product is sold to the unsuspecting public. Also good for business and the bottom line, Anna Bligh jumped on the dental association bandwagon without checking all the facts. In a free democratic country no one should be forced to ingest a known carcinogen.
Marie Besler
Buddina Beach
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