Don't vote fluoride out

Physician Group Opposes Fluoridation

"Fluoridation of drinking water is scientifically untenable, and should not be part of a public health initiative or program," says the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) in a new published statement.

CAPE is Canada's leading voice on environmental health issues.

Against a backdrop of intense opposition to the fluoridation of public drinking water in several communities in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec, CAPE asserts:

A) fluoridation is unlikely to be the cause of the cavity decline in Europe and North America,

B) the potential for fluoride's adverse effects is real, and

C) current evidence points in the direction of caution.

Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network says, "CAPE joins a growing list of environmental health experts who have called for an end to the fluoridation of public drinking water.

They include:

* Vyvyan Howard, MD, PhD, President, International Society of Doctors for the Environment

* Ken Cook and Richard Wiles, Environmental Working Group

* Lois Gibbs, Center for Health, Environment, and Justice

* Joseph Mercola, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine

* Theo Colborn, PhD, co-author, "Our Stolen Future"

* Sam Epstein, MD, Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition

* The current and six past Presidents of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology

* Board of Directors (2007), American Academy of Environmental Medicine

* FIVE Goldman Prize winners

These are among over 1800 professionals who have signed a statement calling for an end to fluoridation worldwide see http://www.FluorideAlert.org/professionals.statement.html

According to Connett, "Citizens facing well-financed efforts to fluoridate their communities need to know that US governmental agencies (particularly the CDC) are ignoring the voluminous body of scientific evidence on the adverse effects of fluoride. The National Research Council of the National Academies published a landmark report on these effects in 2006. More than 2 years after its release, CDC and fluoridation promoting agencies in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand and the UK act as if this report was never published. We urge communities to reject fluoridation proposals until promoters can provide a rational scientific response to fluoride's dangers, which includes 23 peer-reviewed and published studies indicating that fluoride can lower children's IQ. Fluoridation exposes infants to 250 times the level of fluoride in human breast milk. That is reckless."

CAPE's statement is online at http://fluoridealert.org/cape.html

Take Action to Stop Fluoridation here: http://congress.FluorideAction.Net

SOURCE: Fluoride Action Network

Hastings is at this time voting on this issue. WE have voted it down twice before. But it seems now that we are going to have it forced down our throats by the so called educated people in our town. The local paper is for supporting this obcenity....so I am making a special effort to educate every one around me on this issue. The thing that bugs me the most is that I am being asked to floridae for the sake of the POOR CHILDREN who by the way suffer the worst of the consiquentes of BAD GOVERMENT MANDATES!!!!!Which this is.

I have my own reasons for not wanting this in my water. Mostly I do not feel obligated to care for other peoples teeth. I can barely provide for my own and higher taxes to pay for this will reduce my ability to take care of me and mine.

Enough is enough. Thankyou for lettin me vent... my local paper wont print oppisition of the floridation issues.

KAREN

This article is so very imbalanced - with no mention of the many reasons NOT to flouridate the water supply.

Thank goodness we have a wealth of information available to us if we choose to check all sides of this important debate.

From just a brief internet search:

*On April 15, 2008, the United States National Kidney Foundation (NKF) updated their position on fluoridation for the first time since 1981. Formerly a supporter of water fluoridation, the NKF now takes a neutral position on the practice.

*The International Chiropractors Association opposes mass water fluoridation, considering it "possibly harmful and deprivation of the rights of citizens to be free from unwelcome mass medication."

* A book, titled "The Fluoride Deception" by Christopher Bryson (a journalist writing for the BBC, Christian Science Monitor, the Discovery Channel and part of an investigative team at Public Television that won a George Polk Award). .. says that research challenging fluoride's safety was either suppressed or not conducted in the first place. He says fluoridation is a triumph not of medical science but of US government spin.

*...in the March 2006 issue of the Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice, the authors examine the water fluoridation controversy in the context of the precautionary principle. The authors note that:

There are other ways of delivering fluoride besides the water supply;

Fluoride does not need to be swallowed to prevent tooth decay;

Tooth decay has dropped at the same rate in countries with, and without, water fluoridation;

People are now receiving fluoride from many other sources besides the water supply;

Studies indicate fluoride's potential to cause a wide range of adverse, systemic effects;

Since fluoridation affects so many people, "one might accept a lower level of proof before taking preventive actions

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The idea that the government truly cares about our teeth has never seemed very likely.

Namaste,

Tina Louise