Ballina Council votes against Fluoride

Ballina Council have voted against the introduction of the scheduled S2 poison “Fluoride” into their water system.

Some anti-fluoride activists, such as Merilyn Haines, the president of Queenslanders for Safe Water Air and Food, argue that fluoride is a poison that is used as an insectide to kill roaches and ants. But Ballina Council member Keith Williams, who proposed the motion, said he saw it as a human rights issue. “I don’t dispute the scientific evidence of dentistry that it prevents cavities, but I don’t believe it is appropriate to add a medication to the water supply without everybody’s consent.”

There is a denial of civil liberties where a medication can be added to the water supply without any control of the amount of medication being taken by consumers.  It is simply mass medication.

He said at least one-third of residents were opposed to fluoridation. “I think they have a right to clean, safe water that doesn’t have it,” he said.

Anti-fluoridation action has been spreading from Queensland south into NSW. Since Queensland Premier Campbell Newman’s government overturned the previous government’s decision to make fluoridation of the water supply compulsory, 17 councils, including Mt Isa and Rockhampton, have voted to either stop adding fluoride or have stopped moves to build fluoridation plants.

Currently, it is up to each council to decide, and then seek approval for its decision, or ask NSW Health to decide for it.

Some anti-fluoride activists argue that fluoridated toothpaste has removed the need for fluoridation of the water supply.

The bottom line however, is that consumers are being given a S2 poison that is not in their control to stop taking.

The high sales of filters that take out fluoride from the water is a good indication that people simply do not want it added to their water.