Ireland - The Girl Against Fluoride
The
Girl Against Fluoride
The Girl Against
Fluoride campaign was created in August of 2012. Prior
to this date, members of a fluoride free campaign in the Republic of
Ireland were touring around Ireland giving public talks about the
risk of water fluoridation to health and the environment. There was
little or no response after these public talks. It was time to
radically change the approach.
The Girl Against
Fluoride campaign is a PR campaign which aims to raise as awareness
about fluoride on a nationwide scale. Aisling FitzGibbon who is also
known as The Girl Against Fluoride kicked off the campaign last
August with a publicity stunt at a local Kerry airport. Aisling
bravely stripped to knickers and a t-shirt which had printed text:
“Irish water contains toxic industrial waste” and the famous “Get
the F out” symbol similar to the universal stop sign. When the
publicity photos were published online there was an amazing response
from the public. From that point The Girl Against Fluoride has grown
from strength to strength. The campaign has gained support all over
Ireland and beyond.
There
have been some more wacky and controversial publicity stunts
involving stripping outside the Irish parliament, stripping alongside
a politician and questioning the Junior Minister for Health outside
the Department of Health with Hot Press journalist, Adrienne Murphy.
We have gained major coverage in Hot Press magazine which has covered
the fluoride scandal for the past 5 editions.
http://www.hotpress.com/Water-Fluoridation-in-Ireland/politics/frontlines/The-Girl-Against-Fluoride/9680418.html?new_layout=1
Irish musicians,
celebrities and politicians are beginning to support the campaign.
The list includes Christy Moore, Paddy Casey, Mundy, Senator David
Norris, Luke Ming Flanagan TD and Paolo Tullio. Paddy Casey a well
known Irish singer/song writer is currently working on a song for the
campaign. Some of the members of The Girl Against Fluoride campaign
are working on a documentary about the history of water fluoridation
in Ireland, spanning to the current day campaign. There will be a
premier of the documentary which will be held in an independent
cinema in Dublin. The documentary will also be released for free
online and will be aired in towns across Ireland.
One of the reasons
why this campaign is gaining so much support is because it has taken
a creative, fun and light hearted approach to an incredibly serious
and negative issue. Ireland is the only country in the EU with a
policy of mandatory water fluoridation. 98 % of Europe have banned,
stopped or rejected water fluoridation. In Ireland when local
authorities vote to remove fluoride there are unable to stop due to
the national legislation in place. One of the strongest aspects of
The Girl Against Fluoride campaign is that Aisling FitzGibbon is
taking a High Court case against the Irish State to have the policy
of mandatory water fluoridation overturned.
Aisling has a legal
team representing her on a pro bono basis which is very lucky as the
court costs can run into the 100,000s. We have to raise 30,000 euro
minimum to cover basic costs for the legal team and to fly in a
number expert witnesses to testify in the court case. We hope that as
many people as possible will donate to this cause which is sure to
end fluoridation in Ireland forever.
The
key to ending water fluoridation here in Ireland and indeed the rest
of the other fluoridated countries is awareness. It is our goal to
change public opinion about fluoride and to get people to begin to
question the logic of adding untested, unlicensed chemicals to
everyone’s water supply in the guise of protecting dental health.
The overwhelming consensus by dental researchers is that fluoride’s
primary effect is topical, not systemic. The leading promoters of
fluoride in the US, The Centres for Disease Control (CDC) stated in
1999 that fluorides actions are primarily topical for both adults and
children. This was concurred by the National Research Council (2006)
stating that “the major anticaries benefit of fluoride is topical
and not systemic”. To review how fluoride works topically and how
scientists came to disprove the systemic theory see
www.fluoridealert.org
Nobel Prize
Winner in Medicine and Physiology, Dr Arvid Carlsson, stated that
water fluoridation “goes against all laws of modern
pharmacology…you cannot give everyone the same dose”.
I believe that The
Girl Against Fluoride campaign will help all other fluoride free
campaigns around the world. When we succeed in ending water
fluoridation in Ireland, there will be a ripple effect that will span
across the globe impacting on decisions to stop or to never introduce
fluoride to the public water supply.
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