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Breast Cancer Industry A Scam? Support Education, Not Medication Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Health Studies researcher Samantha King, author of pink ribbons Inc. The emphasis on breast cancer "screening," and the circus of holding breast cancer awareness months is, of course, all about recruiting more women into a system of treatment that generates profits for drug companies. Using fear-based tactics of recruitment (like telling women, "You'll die in six months if you don't undergo chemotherapy..."), the breast cancer industry manages to corral women of all races and ages into treatments that actually harm far more women than they help.

Health Studies researcher Samantha King, author of pink ribbons Inc. The real answers to breast cancer prevention Here, for the benefit of women everywhere, is a partial list of the things that cause cancer and things that don't. You're not going to find full descriptions and citations here, as that would require an entire book all by itself, but this is a very useful reference list that tells the truth about what causes or prevents cancer in the human body.

Racist medicine: Breast cancer industry exploits black women for profit while censoring solutions Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Pink ribbon products are a "sham" says Adams, and many of the products promoted with pink ribbons actually cause cancer, he says. Furthermore, no consumers seem to know where the pink ribbon donation money is actually going or whether it's doing any good. "One thing for sure is that nobody is bothering to fund educational campaigns that would teach black women how to actually prevent breast cancer and avoid the disease altogether.

Big Tobacco joins breast cancer industry to launch new pink ribbon cigarettes (parody) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The pink ribbon cigarettes join numerous other cancer-causing products in the marketplace already sporting pink ribbon symbols, including batteries made with toxic heavy metals and popular skin care products laced with cancer-causing petrochemicals. pink ribbons are also found on cancer-promoting nail polish and cosmetics containing parabens and other chemicals. Pink ribbon SlimSmokes will be sold at selected retailers, including Bad Breath and Beyond, a popular retailer of toxic home care products for consumers.

Consumer health advocate and cancer industry critic Mike Adams (aka "The Health Ranger") questioned the sanity of the plan, saying that, "Pink ribbons have become corporate graffiti. They're used to exploit consumers' emotional associations for the purpose of selling more products that will actually harm them. Non-profit cancer groups should be ashamed of themselves for associating their name, and their symbols, with any product that promotes cancer, even beyond cigarettes," Adams said. Mike Adams is the author of the popular Breast Cancer Deception report making the rounds on the internet.

It is published under the protection of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and it is offered as entertaining public commentary for the purpose of stirring thoughtful debate over the current use of pink ribbons to market consumer products containing (or producing) cancer-causing substances. Any resemblance to actual product names, company names or non-profit names is purely coincidental. In no way does this parody piece intend to imply that non-profit cancer groups would endorse tobacco (although doctors and non-profits certainly did decades ago).

October is Breast Cancer Propaganda Month: Pinkwashing, Breast Cancer Action and Vitamin D Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Read the book pink ribbons, Inc. to learn more about what happens behind closed doors at the Susan G. Komen foundation. As Breast Cancer Action points out, a lot of the "pink products" marketing is nothing more than Pinkwashing -- a ploy by product marketers to boost sales of products that actually contribute to breast cancer risk!

Many cosmetics and personal care products, for example, are loaded with cancer-causing chemicals that soak right through the skin and enter the bloodstream, and yet these products proudly display pink ribbons, enticing gullible women to purchase them while thinking they're doing something useful to stop breast cancer. If it wasn't for the fact that so many women are being killed by toxic products, it would all be quite hilarious. But the sad fact is that product marketers are exploiting both the pocketbooks and bodies of women in a quest to generate more profits at any cost...

Breast Cancer Action Launches 6th Year of Think Before You Pink San Francisco -- Breast Cancer Action (BCA) today launched its annual Think Before You Pink campaign with a new focus -- "pinkwashing" companies that increase sales by putting pink ribbons on their products, even though these products contribute to the breast cancer epidemic.

Calling for transparency and accountability from companies that use pink ribbons to sell products, BCA believes that consumers can and should ask questions about how the money is being raised and where the money is going. The big question of the campaign this year is which companies are engaging in pink ribbon marketing while manufacturing products that are contributing to the epidemic. Toward this end, BCA is singling out the car, dairy, and cosmetics industries. "These pinkwashing companies are trying to have it both ways," says BCA Executive Director Barbara A. Brenner.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

And Charlotte Haley's peach ribbon just kind of disappeared, inundated under pink ribbons ever after." Cancer Inc. Unraveling the ribbon further, one finds even more disturbing contents inside the pink package. "They make the chemicals, they run the treatment centers, and they're still looking for 'the cure' — no wonder they won't tell you about breast cancer prevention," begins the expose by Sharon Batt and Liza Gross in Sierra magazine.21 It's the most straightforward way to put it.

My 27-year-old nephew was just diagnosed with Stage 3 testicular cancer," Jeanne Rizzo told me at the end of our half-hour conversation about pink ribbons. "I want that kid cured," she said, her voice rising. "I don't care if they have to dump a superfund site down his veins. But I don't want my son and my other nephew to get it either. How can you ignore the prevention part of it?" As the teen cancer programs remind us, cancer is everywhere and it's everyone's problem. Everyone needs to be part of the solution too — especially the wealthy corporations that brand themselves to breast cancer.

Science news update: Clones, Mars, quantum computing, weapons technology and more (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

National breast cancer foundations that ignore low-cost prevention strategies and use silly pink ribbons as patient recruiting tools for Big Medicine (all while accepting millions of dollars in "gift money" from drug companies and mammogram manufacturers). Mars rovers get pity squeegee wipes The Mars rovers, which should have stopped functioning six months ago, are still rambling across the red planet thanks to their solar panels, which have been repeatedly cleaned and washed by some unknown phenomenon.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

We need something that shifts extinction from an abstract issue to a human concern, something that moves the discussion onto the streets and into people's homes, in the same way that red and pink ribbons have helped to destigmatize HIV and breast cancer. We might start remembering extinct species through body art. We could easily assemble and maintain a database of names, pictures, and information on species that have gone extinct or are clearly bound for extinction. People can then "adopt" dead species. The membership dues?

Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world John Robbins See book keywords and concepts

With so much concern and passion arising about the epidemics of cancer, with women marching to raise money for breast cancer research, with huge campaigns to get women to have mammograms, and with all kinds of people wearing pink ribbons to demonstrate solidarity with the effort, it's sad how little understanding most people actually have of the steps they can take to reduce their risk of cancer.

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