If you can scare women, you can sell them anything… This financial disgrace of the Kormen foundation reflects what goes on across all the big cancer charities globally. They pull on the heart strings with the notion that they are looking for ‘cures’ to cancer – but of course never find them and indeed have no real reason to find them since a cure for cancer would put them, and all the pharmaceutical companies who quietly fund them, out of business. The added disgrace is that none of them EVER put money into prevention, eg lobbying to have toxic chemicals, estrogen-mimics banned (God forbid we should do that in a ‘free society’!). The Cancer Prevention Society and No More Breast Cancer are also good sources for looking at the environmental causes of cancer.
Planned Parenthood teaches and performs breast exams.
Rob, 80 percent of breast cancers are discovered by the patient. Education has played a huge role in the survival rate. Pink my be a money maker for a lot of companies, but it has helped raise awareness. I have no problem with the pink ribbon campaigns. By the way, a larger number of men are getting breast cancer too. All men should be doing self-exams.
Thank you, Jen Sorensen – i pity those who you are pissed off at.
Rob 44: Thank you for the enlightening information.
Amanda: Yes!
personally, i love the timely and amusing tie-in to janet jackson’s superbowl halftime “mishap” a few years back.
clever!
🙂
For an illuminating read on the true nature of the Komen Foundation, read Emily Michele’s “I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Komen’s Race Is For Money, Not Cure” on Alternet, dated Feb. 4, 2012.
“Susan G. Komen for the Cure is a multimillion-dollar company with assets totaling over $390 million. Only 20.9% of these funds were reportedly used in the 2009-2010 fiscal year for research “for the cure.” Where does the rest of the money go? Let’s have a look. Health screening is 13.0%. Treatment is 5.6%. Fundraising is 10.0%. The largest chunk of the pie is going toward “public health education,” 39.1%…
…Susan G. Komen for the Cure only spends a possible 53% of its research funding for a cure, or — about 11% of total revenue. Donate a dollar “for the cure?” Only about a dime of that will go toward research that might actually be designed to cure cancer, through allopathic medicine that is driven by the pharmaceutical system.
…The Breast Cancer Action organization has created a project to educate consumers about the deceitfulness of pinkwashing, or cause-marketing of pink ribbon products. They promote awareness of this issue with the Think Before You Pink campaign, aimed especially at highlighting the pink products which themselves are cancer-causing or dangerous to your health, such as toxic cosmetics, rBGH-laced dairy products and air-polluting cars.”
If you can scare women, you can sell them anything… This financial disgrace of the Kormen foundation reflects what goes on across all the big cancer charities globally. They pull on the heart strings with the notion that they are looking for ‘cures’ to cancer – but of course never find them and indeed have no real reason to find them since a cure for cancer would put them, and all the pharmaceutical companies who quietly fund them, out of business. The added disgrace is that none of them EVER put money into prevention, eg lobbying to have toxic chemicals, estrogen-mimics banned (God forbid we should do that in a ‘free society’!). The Cancer Prevention Society and No More Breast Cancer are also good sources for looking at the environmental causes of cancer.
Planned Parenthood teaches and performs breast exams.
Komen Foundation sells guns for the cure:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/05/1061826/-Susan-G-Komen:-Shooting-for-the-cure?detail=hide&via=blog_1
Rob, 80 percent of breast cancers are discovered by the patient. Education has played a huge role in the survival rate. Pink my be a money maker for a lot of companies, but it has helped raise awareness. I have no problem with the pink ribbon campaigns. By the way, a larger number of men are getting breast cancer too. All men should be doing self-exams.
Thank you, Jen Sorensen – i pity those who you are pissed off at.
Rob 44: Thank you for the enlightening information.
Amanda: Yes!
personally, i love the timely and amusing tie-in to janet jackson’s superbowl halftime “mishap” a few years back.
clever!
🙂
For an illuminating read on the true nature of the Komen Foundation, read Emily Michele’s “I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Komen’s Race Is For Money, Not Cure” on Alternet, dated Feb. 4, 2012.
“Susan G. Komen for the Cure is a multimillion-dollar company with assets totaling over $390 million. Only 20.9% of these funds were reportedly used in the 2009-2010 fiscal year for research “for the cure.” Where does the rest of the money go? Let’s have a look. Health screening is 13.0%. Treatment is 5.6%. Fundraising is 10.0%. The largest chunk of the pie is going toward “public health education,” 39.1%…
…Susan G. Komen for the Cure only spends a possible 53% of its research funding for a cure, or — about 11% of total revenue. Donate a dollar “for the cure?” Only about a dime of that will go toward research that might actually be designed to cure cancer, through allopathic medicine that is driven by the pharmaceutical system.
…The Breast Cancer Action organization has created a project to educate consumers about the deceitfulness of pinkwashing, or cause-marketing of pink ribbon products. They promote awareness of this issue with the Think Before You Pink campaign, aimed especially at highlighting the pink products which themselves are cancer-causing or dangerous to your health, such as toxic cosmetics, rBGH-laced dairy products and air-polluting cars.”