Whale Oil has been posting about the scandel involving Folate, Bread and Mass Medication. http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/content/mass-medication-our-bread-facts-dont-warrant-it

The facts in persepective:

Annette King when she agreed to force bakers to add folate to bread thinks that it is ok to mass medicate the entire population with folate even when more than 50% of the population has no need for said mass medication. Further the costs simply don’t stack up.

The cost isn’t justified. The rate of spina bifida in New Zealand is 0.94/1000 total births. There were 64,000 live births in New Zealand in 2008. So we are going to medicate the entire population to save 60 babies from Spina Bifida and 50 babies from anencephalus.

That is just  ridiculous. We are forcing the enitre population to eat bread that has been mass medicated with folate in order to save 60 babies from spina bifida.

We murder more than that each year in our abortion clinics. We kill 32 babies a day with abortion! Let’s get our priorities right.

The comparison to the abortion rates really are cause for concern.

Tags: Bread, Folate, Medication, Whale Oil

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