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We Don’t Want Fluoride!
More than half the people living in Leicestershire would not want fluoride added to the water system, according to a snapshot survey. Dozens of people have written to the Leicester Mercury expressing their fears over the issue. Their opinions have been gauged as we continue our Great Fluoride Debate. All this week, we asked shoppers […]
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Hard to swallow
Two weeks ago it emerged that Mr Blair is backing secret moves to force water companies to fluoridate drinking water, whether the industry likes it or not. In other words, he is proposing to mass medicate the people of this country. This is not – as you might imagine – to prevent some terrible, crushing […]
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Water Fluoridation: Drug on tap
Cabinet papers leaked to The Sunday Times early in May revealed government plans to fluoridate drinking water in England and Wales. The reason given for this move is that it would reduce tooth decay among children in ‘deprived’ areas. Until now it has been up to the water companies to decide whether to add fluoride […]
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Great Fluoride Debate
The controversial issue of putting fluoride into Leicestershire’s drinking water supply is back on the agenda. New legislation currently before Parliament may pave the way for its introduction into hundreds of thousands of homes. Many health experts favour the move, saying it significantly improves dental health, particularly among deprived groups. However, anti-fluoride campaigners are vehemently […]
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Fluoride flaws
The government is poised to reignite one of the most vexed medical issues of the past 50 years. Early next month, parliament will debate clauses of the water bill which will give indemnity against legal action to water companies that add fluoride to their supplies, paving the way for the extension of fluoridation schemes throughout […]
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Fluoride and Our Rights
********* Douglas is a forensic ecologist and toxicologist, who sits on the government inquiry into the Camelford water poisoning of 1988. Here he tells how he is opposed to the adding of fluoride to the public water supply ********* SHOULD Primary Health Care Trusts be allowed to require water companies to fluoridate public drinking water […]
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Wales MP adds voice to Fluoride Opposition
The Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, Peter Black, has added his voice to those opposed to the addition of fluoride to our water supply. Mr Black was commenting on proposals by the Government to legislate to make it the responsibility of health authorities to determine whether to proceed with fluoridation or […]
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Poison peril lurking in our tap water
Toxic industrial waste is not easy to get rid of these days as disposal costs can run into billions. Some polluting companies have found a way round this dilemma by pretending their highly toxic fluorosilicate waste is the same as naturally-occurring calcium fluoride. Dangerous industrial waste is simply sold on to fluoridating water companies in […]
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Leading Cancer Researcher Opposes Water Fluoridation
Dr Sam Epstein, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, author of “The Politics of Cancer”, and “The Politics of Cancer Revisited”, strongly supports MP John Butterfill’s Early Day Motion 1258, on FLUORIDATION OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES 20.05.03, which states: “That this House considers that the only chemicals which should be added to public water are […]
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Mum Will Fight Fluoride In Tap Water Proposal
A Gower mum of four is preparing to battle some of the country’s top dental experts and the Government over proposals to put fluoride into water supplies. Beverly Cooke claims the plan is enforced medication of the population. Her eldest daughter, Alysia, was diagnosed as suffering from fluorosis three years’ ago when she was 11. […]
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