Call for more action againt Fluoridation : Melbourne Indymedia

The Victorian Greens policy statement about fluoridation reads as follows:

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Australian Greens Victoria
2006 Victorian Election

Policy Statement

Health

3.3 Population Health
The Victorian Greens will work towards:

3.3.19.Supporting the right of communities to determine the introduction of fluoride into local water supplies.

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Pretty good on the surface. I also support the right of local communities to determine their own poison intake. As long as those communities do not include hooligans like Tony Abbott:

Abbott: Dressing the Fluoride Monkey
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142908.php

There was no opposition to fluoridation by the Greens or the journalist in the original ABC Online article I quoted from in "Dressing the Fluoride Monkey". People seem reluctant to politicize the subject of fluoridation in Australia. But this is not the case in parts of the US and Europe and I call for for a tougher stance against fluoridation from the Victorian Greens.

Here is what they are saying in Ireland:

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Greens in Govt would stop water fluoridation

Issued: 13 March 2007

The Green Party today said that it would stop the fluoridation of Irish water supplies if elected to Government. Health spokesperson John Gormley TD said that water fluoridation had reached its sell-by date and that the latest international research meant that fluoridation was no longer tenable.

Speaking at a press conference in Dublin, Deputy Gormley said: "The latest advice from the American Dental Association tells parents to avoid using fluoridated water when bottle feeding babies because of the dangers of fluorosis - the staining and pitting of teeth which can result from overexposure to fluoride. This advice should be heeded. The balance of international evidence proves that water fluoridation should be stopped immediately.

http://www.greenparty.ie/en/news/latest_news/greens_in_govt_would_stop_water_fluoridation

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People are waking up to the fact that fluoridation was not a good idea and is in fact very dangerous. I was shocked when both my parents told me they were dusted for lice by using DDT when they were children. I hope your grand children will be just as shocked when you tell them what they used to do to the water supply.