I have some words to both John Challinor II and Mr. Garcia: you both are missing the point in your recent letters to the editor about the bottled water industry.
Mr. Garcia: you are barking up the wrong tree. Have you stopped to think that perhaps the kids are drinking bottled (NestlĂ©) water because their health-conscious parents are trying to minimize fluoride exposure? You’re good with Internet research; why not familiarize yourself with all the research disclosing the real dangers of fluoridation?
Mr. Challinor: don’t knock the Internet as a source of credible information. It is the largest online library available to the public. If your company is doing shady business, sooner or later, they will end up on Wikileaks.
Personally, I drink Nestlé bottled water because it is non-fluoridated. As long as the City of St. Albert keeps mass-medicating (more like poisoning) the residents with fluoride, my family and I will continue to consume Nestlé bottled water.
Also, as long as the (Albert Lacombe) school will ban safe bottled water on account of unsafe fluoridated water, my family’s property taxes will be redirected to the other school system, starting with this year’s taxes.
Mr. Garcia: perhaps your coalition needs to start looking at the bigger picture and go after city hall to stop contaminating our drinking water with fluoridation (like Calgary just did) instead of Nestlé for providing safe drinking water. If the tap water is safe, nobody will have to buy bottled water.
Joanna Gil, St. Albert
