On Tuesday the High Court in Wellington heard Whangarei District Council’s (WDC) application for an interim injunction to delay the start of fluoridation until its substantive case is heard later this year.
Under a 2021 amendment to the Health Act, the Director-General of Health ordered WDC in July 2022 to begin fluoridation by March 28, 2025.
However, WDC’s lawyer, Jeremy Browne, argued that complying with this order would put the council in breach of the Water Services Drinking Act (2021), which mandates the provision of “safe” drinking water, defined as water that does not pose a serious health risk.
Browne presented scientific evidence from the U.S. National Toxicology Program’s 2024 review, which identified fluoride as a neurotoxicant, and affidavits from toxicology experts Bruce Lanphear and Philippe Grandjean, challenging the Ministry of Health’s stance that fluoridation is safe.
Crown lawyer Jason Varuhas defended the Ministry’s directive, asserting that the government had reviewed all evidence and maintained that fluoridation remains “safe and effective”, particularly for improving dental health among disadvantaged Māori children.
Browne countered, claiming that recent studies do not support the effectiveness of fluoridation in reducing social inequalities in oral health.
The judge reserved her decision but committed to delivering a ruling before the March 28 deadline.
On Tuesday the High Court in Wellington heard Whangarei District Council’s (WDC) application seeking an interim injunction to allow the council to delay starting fluoridation until their substantive case is heard later in the year. Under an Amendment to the Health Act that came… pic.twitter.com/9FktWe0B2R
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Yeah, the “Crown” is really safe and effective for our health alright. We would all be much healthier and happy without the “Crown” in our lives.
These emissaries are so far removed from real life that they do not even consider how they have been engineered to come to verdicts like what WE the people of Godzone had to endure in recent times.
When will that stop?
Has no one of them enjoyed an unadulterated upbringing (excuse the pun)?
Have they never had the sweetness of grandparents to guard them against the folly of well-meaning but mislead modern socialist narrative and ‘justice’?
Are they not quite likely grandparents themselves, ‘judging’ between what they (maybe unwittingly) have signed up to and what their descendants will inherit?
Do they ever think of the world they leave behind?
Have they ever dug for potatoes, tilled the soil, slaughtered prey, cooked a decent meal?
Sucking on a tit does not qualify for merit to be leading a people, even as a judge!
If they force this on us, we will take a class action and sue our own government.
If it’s safe and effective, I want the MOH to tell us what is the safe amount of fluoridated water that a fully formula fed baby who is being bathed in and fed fluoridated water can injest/absorb so that it does not suffer IQ loss or dental or skeletal fluorosis.
The burden of proof that it is safe lies with the people who are forcing this.
This is worse than covid because even though difficult, we could opt out of that. Here they are poisoning our water, which we cannot live without. We drink bath and cook with it. It’s not as simple as using bottled water or providing a tap for people to use. I mean how ridiculous. All this because a few gormless twits won’t teach their kids to clean their teeth or stop feeding them fizzy drinks. Target the problem people. Why are we always lowering ourselves to the lowest common denominator.
Forcing this is COMMUNISM.
Big ups to WDC for fighting this. The data our government is using is OUT OF DATE and they have not proven it safe for the most vulnerable.
Surely this is another reason to vote NEW Zealand first again. Make Luxon and National a minority party due to their wokeness.
I am conservative, I am into self responsibility and freedom of choice. The majority of Kiwis are the same, ignore us at your peril!!!!!
So its the Race card that Trumps, Maori are so special that whites and everyone else have to be poisoned because their parents are losers.
But but but…
Retarded indoctrinated authoritarian healthcare ‘professionals’ and some dimwitted dentists genuinely believe that industrial waste/neurotoxins are good for your teethe.
We live in a Kafkaesque black comedy.
It’s a laugh a minute.
I should like to go further and prosecute those responsible for inflicting govt retardation on all of us who have been retarded by fluoride over the past however many decades.
Will the judge remember to read the Bill of Right s Act 1990 I wonder.
11. Right to refuse to undergo medical treatment
Everyone has the right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment.
I’m starting to suspect this legislation might be entirely toothless.
Hear hear
The judge will rule whichever way the government wants them to rule, as always.
Waste of time. There’s no justice in New Zealand. We saw this all too clearly, during the so called pandemic. If you want clean poison free, water, move to anywhere that’s not a Five Eyes country.