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	<title>Eco online: environmental news, features and opinion from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia&#187; fluoride</title>
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		<title>Fluoride is an enzyme poison</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor Why pollute the drinking water with an enzyme poison higher on the poison scale than lead? The question every Queenslander should be asking is: What is Fluoride? Fluoride is a chemical substance made from the waste sludge formed during the production of pesticides. Fluoride is an enzyme poison. Enzyme poisons react [...]]]></description>
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<p>Why pollute the drinking water with an enzyme poison higher on the poison scale than lead?</p>
<p>The question every Queenslander should be asking is: What is Fluoride? Fluoride is a chemical substance made from the waste sludge formed during the production of pesticides. Fluoride is an enzyme poison. Enzyme poisons react with all glands in the body, especially with the thyroid gland.</p>
<p>Flouride also has the cumulative effect which means that our bodies do not have a system to get rid of these toxins, they therefore accumulate and stay in our bodies throughout our lifetime. Fluoride is higher on the poison scale than lead.</p>
<p>Where is the scientific evidence that this enzyme poison reduces tooth decay? There is no scientific evidence.  It does not exist. Why not? No scientific experiments have ever been performed. Because there are too many variables in the human population that cannot be controlled.</p>
<p>However, scientific experiments have been performed in laboratories using animals and there is positive proof that fluoride causes cancer. Therefore fluoride is called a carcinogen. There is no scientific evidence that fluoride affects tooth decay. Why does this myth persist and who is promoting it?</p>
<p>The pesticide industry, selling their toxic waste sludge is worth billions and billions of dollars. Before EPA laws came into existence the pesticide industry was able to dump their toxic waste sludge into the river systems. After the EPA laws the pesticide industry had to find solutions to getting rid of this waste sludge. Monsanto Dow Chemical conceived the idea and hatched plan to sell their waste sludge to the unsuspecting public, therefore a powerful, well-paid lobby was hired to get the message out that fluoride is good for dental health.</p>
<p>The lobby wines, dine and bribes governmental officials who become pawns and perpetuate the myth that fluoride is beneficial to dental health. The taxpayers subsidises the multi-national corporations the pesticide industry by supplying and maintaining the machinery to pollute the drinking water with an enzyme poison. How good is that for the multi-national corporation? Who can give their CEOs billions in perks? The hapless helpless taxpayers pay and pay.</p>
<p><em>Marie Besler</em></p>
<p><em>Buddina, QLD</em></p>
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		<title>Fluoride a concern</title>
		<link>http://econews.org.au/2008/04/fluoride-a-concern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Why spend millions of dollars of taxpayer&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>Marie Besler<br />
Buddina Beach</em></p>
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