Australia - TROUBLED WATERS: Kerry Weinholz wonders if fluoride is good for either our teeth or our oceans.

Flow on effect of fluoride
Ren Lanzon | 28th May 2009
Kerry Weinholz wants to know what possible benefit fluoride will be to the Great Barrier Reef where most of the chemical will end up.
“We'll drink less than one per cent of the fluoridated water so it will either build up in our soils or get washed out to sea,” she said.
“What's out there (in the ocean) that needs fluoride? Will it strengthen the bones of fish and the teeth of sharks?”
Kerry is also doubtful if fluoridating the water supply is the best way to protect the teeth of young children or if it is necessary in their diet at all.
“I make the comparison between my diet on the farm on tank water and milk and the diet my kids have been subjected to know the difference.
“In our generation we were given a bottle of milk for the calcium to build strong teeth.”
Kerry said that option was better than pouring fluoride in our waterways and it also helped the Australian dairy industry.
She said instead the government put impositions on farmers to have them reduce the fertiliser and chemicals that make their way to the ocean.
“If fluoride affects the barrier reef, will they impose even more controls and paperwork on the farmers for something they did not do?”