October 2, 2012

This former breast cancer patient thinks October is really Pink Washing* Month and the sea of pink makes me queasy

Check out Think Before You Pink* Campaign and the great work being done by Breast Cancer Action.

How come with all the billions of dollars spent on cancer research and "awareness" we're still in the midst of an epidemic?  One in 8 women in the U.S. will experience breast cancer during her lifetime and it's 1 in 100,000 in China.  Yep! That's right - on Mainland China they call it "the rich women's disease."

*Breast Cancer Action coined the term pinkwashing as part of our Think Before You Pink campaign. Pinkwasher: (pink’-wah-sher) noun. A company or organization that claims to care about breast cancer by promoting a pink ribbon product, but at the same time produces, manufactures and/or sells products that are linked to the disease.


p.s. Anyone else notice that the fancy hospital wings that were built 20 years ago were maternity wards and now they're cancer centers?

Is this really creating "awareness"?
What if America's food supply was the leading cause of most cancers?

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