“People should have choice,” she says. “If you want to eat bad foods, if you want to have fluoride, if you want to have, let’s say, vaccines, then you choose that. But there should be no coercion, bullying, bribery. It needs to be a choice.”
Ah, letting the anti-vax sentiment slip a little there…
Regardless of that, I don’t understand how putting fluoride into drinking water is coercive, bullying or bribing behaviour. We are already treating drinking water with other chemicals like chlorine, should we stop that too so that Queenslanders have a choice and aren’t bullied or coerced into drinking healthy water?
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I kinda feel like an idiot right now for being out of the loop on this but why is it a bad thing to remove floride from drinking water?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 39 minutes ago
You’re not an idiot. The gist of it is that there have been places that didn’t have or removed fluoridation and it resulted in terrible dental health in kids.
And yes you can get fluoride from toothpaste. But I’m guessing what happened is that due to the risk of swallowing toothpaste kids need low fluoride or fluoride free toothpaste, so weren’t able to get enough without having it in the water.