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This is a democracy so stop fluoride!
REGARDING the article "Decision-making on fluoride was 'terrible'" (Daily Echo, December 10), it appears that the House of Lords has been informed that Southampton residents are having fluoride put into their water against "expressed wishes". A real democratic fiasco!
Who cares about costs? The residents just don't want fluoride in their water.
Why can't this Strategic Health Authority (SHA) stop its stubborn aim to put waste material into our water?
Fluoride in the past was put into toothpaste for children. Maybe fluoride could be put into bottled water and then people could have fluoride in their own water should they wish to.
This would then leave the majority being able to enjoy their clean water as they had in the past.
To make 200,000 people in the different parts of Southampton be affected by this is unacceptable in a democratic system. And then to speak of "financial benefits" from the improvement in public health is disgusting.
The north of England doesn't have to tolerate this. Why do we?
Of course, we can have a direct interest in the cost of dental health -just have these families buy toothpaste with fluoride in it. Fluoride can also be issued by dentists, even though it does make the teeth yellow. Yellow teeth are not unhealthy.
It is so ironic that some people in Africa would give anything to have our clean water and we go and "poison" it while giving aid to those in Africa to purify their water.
Let's hope this SHA, along with this great coalition Government, can finally give the majority of people what they want in a true democracy (if we still have a democracy!)
ALBERT-LAURITZ RASMUSSEN, Totton.
REGARDING the article "Decision-making on fluoride was 'terrible'" (Daily Echo, December 10), it appears that the House of Lords has been informed that Southampton residents are having fluoride put into their water against "expressed wishes". A real democratic fiasco!
Who cares about costs? The residents just don't want fluoride in their water.
Why can't this Strategic Health Authority (SHA) stop its stubborn aim to put waste material into our water?
Fluoride in the past was put into toothpaste for children. Maybe fluoride could be put into bottled water and then people could have fluoride in their own water should they wish to.
This would then leave the majority being able to enjoy their clean water as they had in the past.
To make 200,000 people in the different parts of Southampton be affected by this is unacceptable in a democratic system. And then to speak of "financial benefits" from the improvement in public health is disgusting.
The north of England doesn't have to tolerate this. Why do we?
Of course, we can have a direct interest in the cost of dental health -just have these families buy toothpaste with fluoride in it. Fluoride can also be issued by dentists, even though it does make the teeth yellow. Yellow teeth are not unhealthy.
It is so ironic that some people in Africa would give anything to have our clean water and we go and "poison" it while giving aid to those in Africa to purify their water.
Let's hope this SHA, along with this great coalition Government, can finally give the majority of people what they want in a true democracy (if we still have a democracy!)
ALBERT-LAURITZ RASMUSSEN, Totton.
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