| Gradually and by degrees the principle of personal | | | | those with asthma and suffer allergies to skin or lungs |
| freedom is being eroded. Where once the province of | | | | that they cannot swim in public swimming pools or |
| health and our choice of health care was our own | | | | participate in swimming carnivals. |
| business, more and more are we becoming subjected | | | | Our health is largely dependent upon the quality of |
| to the over-riding dictatorship of governments and | | | | water and food. But if our public water quality is now |
| bureaucracies. | | | | destroyed to the point that it must be recycled before |
| For example, in the U.S. and to some extent in | | | | consumption, those who wish to avoid drinking it must |
| Australia and no doubt other countries, the | | | | rely upon additional water filters in their homes and |
| bureaucratic health departments such as the FDA are | | | | upon the sometimes dubious nature of the rain, both in |
| enforcing mass public inoculations, vaccinations and | | | | its regularity and its potential for pollution through toxins |
| subjecting the public to chemicals and procedures that | | | | in the air. We have a serious situation regarding our |
| they would not consciously choose. Neither are we | | | | water quality. |
| generally informed as to the risks we are subjected to | | | | Regarding the quality of our food, we endure |
| in the chemicals and toxins that surround us not in | | | | controversial matters and methods that as yet cannot |
| everyday life in western countries as in the case of | | | | be claimed as totally safe such as the waxing of fruit, |
| plastics, aluminum and asbestos. | | | | irradiation of fresh produce, and foods produced by |
| For example, in spite of public voice to refrain from | | | | genetic engineering. To complicate matters we all |
| fluoridation of water supplies, general fluoridation of | | | | know of the risks involved in consuming toxic |
| water now is used, including in Queensland where the | | | | chemicals and are thwarted in seeking reassurance |
| public voice against it was strong. This has gone | | | | that producers observe the chemical spray withholding |
| ahead in spite of scientific findings of the carcinogenic | | | | periods, and that health regulations are policed in |
| potential. | | | | connection with hygiene in market place. |
| When a carcinogen or unsafe substance is identified, | | | | Surely there must be an admission that we have failed |
| as in the case of tobacco that causes so many | | | | to be able to provide our population with the basic |
| deaths, why is no action taken to prohibit the sale of | | | | requirements for our health and that the health of the |
| cigarettes that are easily available over the counter? It | | | | nation is deteriorating is no surprise. Although in |
| is easy to doubt the sincerity of 'health department' | | | | Australia we are relatively better off than in heavily |
| regulations that claim to protect public health and to | | | | industrialized communities, it is becoming obvious that |
| believe that the motivation that allows cancer | | | | more and more illness requires more and more |
| producing and addictive products to be flagrantly | | | | hospitals and we have fewer and fewer doctors and |
| marketed can only be through intervention of the profit | | | | staff to cope with the workload. |
| seeking tobacco companies. So the non-smoking public | | | | Admission of the failure of the current health system |
| continues to be subjected to the dangers of cigarette | | | | would allow a new and better approach to emerge, |
| smoke, albeit indirectly. | | | | one that respects the freedom of choice of individuals, |
| By stealth we are being subjected to many drugs and | | | | yet offers and abundance of affordable treatment |
| chemicals that do not claim to be helping our teeth, | | | | choices, including those that are not invasive and |
| such as chlorine. In spite of being a suspect | | | | appeal to those who wish to avoid drugs and surgery. |
| carcinogenic, chlorine in the water of swimming pools is | | | | Where is our protective health agency we can trust? |
| now mandatory and is so detrimental to the senses, to | | | | |