Campaign to prevent water fluoridation

Some years ago I was fortunate to hear talk in Stroud, the late Jane Jones - a passionate and tireless woman who chaired that National Pure Water Association for many years - Jane spoke virtually non-stop for 3 hours holding everyones attention as she recounted stories and facts about the realities of water fluoridation - only 10% of our country is currently fluoridated - thankfully not Gloucestershire - indeed most countries are stopping it as it doesn't work and there are concerns about health - however our Labour Government is pushing to have the whole country fluoridated in order to reduce dental carries despite their own committee saying more research was needed.

Three years ago in response to this threat I helped set up the Safe Water Campaign for Gloucestershire (now extended to include Avon and Wiltshire) - we have over a 1500 signatures supporting us locally, many members and have been involved in lots of campaigning across the County - I'll save the details for a blog another day or do give me a call. Infact if you want a quick look at some of the issues read our leaflet - copy on Glos Green party website under 'Reports'. For me the quote below by Dr Peter Mansfield sums it up.

Anyhow we've been meeting monthly to organise the various campaigns - today we had a member from Bristol update us on his actions plus a member shared their experiment with fluoridated water - see photo - this is unscientific but just for fun the member was attempting to replicate an experiment done years ago showing plants were less happy with fluoridated water. The results so far show that Hawkwood Spring water is far superior to either tap water or fluoridated water (collected from Kidderminister!) - more tests are planned. We are also in correspondence with the Strategic Health Authority and raising concerns about transporting this stuff - one of the most dangerous substances known!

"No physician in his right senses would prescribe for a person he has never met, whose medical history he does not know, a substance which is intended to create bodily change, with the advice: 'Take as much as you like, to but you will take it for the rest of your life because some children suffer from tooth decay. ' It is a preposterous notion." Dr Peter Mansfield, a physician and an advisory board member of the recent government review of fluoridation.