Canada - Anti-Fluoride posters target manager

Anti-Fluoride posters target manager

 

 

BY CHARLES HAMILTON, THE STARPHOENIX

 

SASKATOON, SASK,: AUGUST 27, 2013 - Jeff Jorgensen's Ainti-Flouride Poster at 5th Ave. N. and 25th St. W., August 27, 2013. (Gord Waldner/ The StarPhoenix)

Photograph by: Gord Waldner , The StarPhoenix

Saskatoon’s latest anti-fluoride campaign is taking aim at one of the city’s top officials.

Posters up downtown Saskatoon lay the blame for city’s water fluoridation squarely at the feet of the city’s utility services manager Jeff Jorgenson.

The posters quote Jorgenson speaking a city council meeting back in December 2012 where he said that the fluoride in Saskatoon’s water was “completely safe.”

The man who designed the poster is standing behind the claims, even while the leaders of Saskatoon’s anti-fluoride movement distance themselves from it.

“He made those comments. I’m just telling people what he said,” said Kris Eyvendson, an anti-fluoride advocate who put up the posters. “The only reason fluoride is in the water is to medicate people. I don’t think the government has the right to medicate the people against their will.”

Fluoridated water is endorsed by virtually every credible health organization in North America, including Health Canada, the Centre for Disease Control and numerous dental associations.

But in recent years, a number of Canadian cities have stopped adding the chemical into their water supply. Waterloo, Calgary and Windsor are among the most recent major municipalities to stop adding fluoride. Smaller municipalities like Okotoks, Alta., Lasalle, Ont., and Moncton, N.B. have also quit adding fluoride......