A letter from Mr Ian Oxenford, Greens spokesman urged the administrator to re-consider having a poll on Fluoridation.
He states, ‘It is an issue the public feel very strongly about, it is the democratic way to hold a poll’.
While all lovers of liberty hold this to be true, it is interesting to note, The Greens appear not to have publicly taken a position on this before. Now a council election is here could they have noticed there were a significant number of votes to be gleaned.
The Greens as champions of the environment were never in evidence or raised a voice in public submissions and pleas made at many recent council meetings.
Mr Oxenford says, ‘we need up-to-date independent studies on the safety and effectiveness of fluoridation’. He adds, ‘We need to proceed with caution’. It is too late for that.
As dedicated environmentalists The Greens of all people should be aware that this toxin has been added to water in many countries and municipalities around the world for decades and the internet provides numerous independent studies and warnings by eminent academics and medical practitioners.
The Greens passion and dedication to the elimination or control of pollutants in our environment, it seems has not previously been concerned with this most serious pollution, that of the water we consume. A cynic would be led to believe that votes in the offing make a difference.
One would think that a party with an environmental agenda would long since have posted a policy on this issue.
It is a verifiable and indisputable fact that the fluoride added to our water is not pharmaceutical grade but is the industrial waste product of the fertiliser industry.
Let us now hope that The Greens, quite apart from backing a poll, will come out and publicly decry the addition of this toxic waste as a so-called medication.
Peter Brown
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