As for the dumbing down thing you all seem to think is true, you are wrong. New Zealand has had fluride in their water for years! And annual studies have shown that the children in Australia have lower grades than children in New Zealand. Just so you know, they get the same tests that we do.

Also, do you really think the government would really put a dangerous substance in drinking water if they didn’t know that the amounts they put in were safe.

Let’s show some leadership on the Fraser Coast.
The FCRC should seek the views of it’s residents
on Flouride. If people in this region are predominately
opposed to fluoridation of our water. Council should
so NO and advise Premier Bligh of the reason.

Democracy is about the wants and needs of the
people. Councillors are supposed th be representing us.

Or is DEMOCRACY just a word?

Sadman

Too bad for America because of people like you.
whats too late is our salvation because of fluoridated brains like yours;
looks like your attitude proves the point of the dumbing down of people
who ingest toxic substances.

It is a waste product of 1) aluminum smeltering 2) phosphate fertilizer production. Fluoride is a medicine, and it is used therefore in mass medicating all water drinking species which means everything
that lives and breathes including the plants we eat; vegetables, fruits etc., are all watered with fluoride…including fish animals and humans.

Rat poison is found in almost every pesticide and rat poison. Where are the liberals banning this substance for its cruelty to animals and humans > naturally they’re selective in what they want to ban, and liberals often ban the wrong thing for all the wrong reasons, and fluoride is liberal because it is a utilitarian concept meaning ” for the good of all,’ and “one size fits all,” is usually a liberal/communist ideology.
For instance Liberal govt. banned bottled water in San Francisco because it was taking the monies away from the govt through the water municipalities. Everyone knows that taxes are the lifeblood of democrats, and having the population all gravitate toward bottled water could not be tolerated because it was cutting into the govts
tax base ! hence democrats shot themselves in the foot just being democrats as they geared toward the natural way of water drinking !

Fluoride found in nature is usually found with calcium and its known as Calcium fluoride = CaF2. This propels the pro argument for fluoride by its proponents, but fluoride in nature means nothing special it means the same thing as supporting the argment for poisonous mushrooms or arsenic or even poison ivey ! Fluoride is in pop you drink, any bottled drink for that matter. fluoride is a health hazzard as it leaches calcium
from the body as it is found in nature attached to calcium, so it attaches to the bones and teeth in the body and’ leeches it out of the body and causes mass tooth decay as well as an uncontrollable osteoparosis in humans but particularly in women in mid life especially.

in the 50’s and 60’s when fluoride was put into the water and toothpaste, the toothpaste tubes were made of aluminum (courtesy of the main supplier of aluminum and fluoride: ALCOA) you could find silver substance coming out onto your toothpaste from the bottle and it was scary. This was because fluoride is so acidic that it leeched the metal
from the aluminum tube as you squeezed out your toothpaste onto your toothbrush ! since they use plastic tubes to stop that.
Fluoride is so acidic that it is carried in specially rubberized lined tankers because it would eat right through the metal of the tanker that carries it to the water supplies !
The dictionary (any dictionary) defines fluorine as: “the most toxic corrosive poisonous halogen (meaning unstable) element known
to man. how about that for being ’safe and effective” against tooth decay?
So someone please tell me just how this definition of the most dangerous toxin known to man suddenly translates to being ’safe
and effective” against tooth decay ! I’d be interested in just how this transition occurs.

No not even small doses is safe even at the .001 ppm that the govt qualifies it in the industrial drinking supplies. This is because fluoride not being a natural substance to the human body, is accumulative so drinking a saffe amount deemed by govt in drinking water, eventually becomes toxic because fluoride is added to everything you drink including soups, juices pop and even in the OJ you squeeze yourself because plants like oranges absorb it from the soil !

There are two important books out on the issue of fluoridation. One book is out of print now but maybe can be found in your public library called “Fluoridation the great dilemma” written by allergist George Walbott MD in approx 1969 i think… The other is more recent written in the 90’s i believe called: Fluoride the aging factor” by John Yimmanous (check spelling). Both books are totally comprehensive studies on fluoride and its effect on health, and shows just how damaging and dangerous it is to us.

So, the then Queensland Beattie government considered it unethical to provide “mass involuntary medication” through water fluoridation without the “consent of the community.” But what did the Bligh government do? Repudiating its own government statement in 2003, it implemented an unethical practice of forcing a toxic drug on all Queenslanders through water fluoridation – without the people’s consent.

The scientific evidence is accumulating against fluoride.

The Canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, withdrew fluoride for the same reasons that Queensland should not fluoridate its water supply. The Swiss gave these reasons:

1. The preventative effect of the fluoridation of drinking water could not be proved by any study. When specialists do not succeed in producing definitive proof in 40 years, the issue has to be abandoned.

2. In spite of the fluoridation of drinking water, caries (tooth decay) has been on the increase with children.

3. The danger of fluorosis is played down; nobody talks about fluorosis of the bones. The fluoridation of drinking water is particularly problematic in the case of young children and babies.

4. Less than 1% of the fluoride in drinking water is actually used for “prevention of caries”, more than 99% of the fluoridated water is used for washing, cleaning, industrial production, etc. and thus only pollutes the environment, a very undesirable imbalance (this Basel statement by Rudolf Ziegelbecker & Konradin Kreuzer, from: http://www.woats.co.uk/pages_articles/nutrition_03.htm [cited 28 February 2009].