This is meant to inform, not offend...

[Nenuphar]

Trailer for the new documentary, Pink Ribbons, Inc - released today:

http://www.nfb.ca/playlists/pink_ribbons_inc/viewing/pink_ribbons_inc_trailer/

(from the site) Breast cancer has become the poster child of cause-related marketing campaigns - people walk, run and shop for the cure. Each year, millions of dollars are raised in the name of breast cancer, but where does this money go and what does it actually achieve? And what happens when a company engages in pinkwashing?

Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a feature documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause," has been hijacked by a shiny, pink story of success.


Interesting to discover how the ribbon "became" pink....

[Lisab]

Good call Nenuphar. Here's a little from Sonia Barretts Marketing in the Matrix...When we relinquish complete power go another we gradually decrease our life force, our chi. You are but a robot to a master that cares nothing about your emotional, physical and spiritual well being. The only concern is that you continue to sustain the economic machine at all cost. Your illness now and in the future guarantees an open-ended cash flow for the pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies etc. Humans automatically become economic machines from birth throughout ones life until departing the planet.

[Flash]

Although breast cancer is terrible and widespread amongst women, the greatest killer of women right now is heart attacks. We joined the men's club for dying of heart attack.

[Samsara]

Thank you for sharing Nenuphar. This is definitely a documentary I want to see.

[Amaterasu]

Did You know that far more People have epilepsy than breast cancer? Not to downgrade the issue of breast cancer... I just wonder where all the...wrinkled ribbons? are for epilepsy...

[Arrowwind]

And lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer...
Lung cancer is the number one killing cancer.... but oh the money to make on breast cancer.
My sister in law has chemo IVs, 7 or 8 a year at $15,000 a pop. Medicare pays,,, thats you and me
They are living longer now and pharmaceutical companies make more money off of them
My sister in law appears healthy, she is a 6 year survivor, yet the cancer keeps spreading and is now in her bones.
Somehow it keeps her from dying as it spreads throughout.

That is the intent, not to cure but to live long with the disease

[WhiteFeather]

Trailer for the new documentary, Pink Ribbons, Inc - released today:

http://www.nfb.ca/playlists/pink_ribbons_inc/viewing/pink_ribbons_inc_trailer/

(from the site) Breast cancer has become the poster child of cause-related marketing campaigns - people walk, run and shop for the cure. Each year, millions of dollars are raised in the name of breast cancer, but where does this money go and what does it actually achieve? And what happens when a company engages in pinkwashing?

Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a feature documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause," has been hijacked by a shiny, pink story of success.


Interesting to discover how the ribbon "became" pink....

As for the paper trail of donations that we contribute to this fraudulent system we call a charity for many cancer research entities, IMO The money lines the corporate's pockets and is being used as a slush fund for the medical monopoly industry's campaign, much like an election campaign. Great Thread Kid!

[WhiteFeather]

Without Love In The Mind, The Body Gets Weak, Illness then sets in. Know this! Love heals everything,,,, it is a medication in itself, it even heals the vessel you are occupying at this moment..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz8vwr5tJtc

Can you imagine going to the doctor, and the doctor wrote you a prescription to go fishing, or whatever else brought you great joy? That's what Dr, Shrock did with his cancer patients. And they loved it!

Only to his great surprise, most of them found this too selfish. But, still, his patients were living much longer than those getting only conventional medical treatment.

[cowens66]

Mammograms cause cancer?

http://www.naturalnews.com/034875_Planned_Parenthood_Komen_breast_cancer.html

[Earth Angel]

Yes they do........I received an email from a well meaning neighbour the other day ...asking to pass this along to any women in your life, of course it was from Dr Oz who I have no time for .......anyway the basic story was that thyroid cancer in women is on the increase and the big wonderful news is....it can be prevented if you ask the dentist for a thyroid shield when you have your dental xrays done or a thyroid shield when you have a mammogram.....HELLLLLLO ???? youre telling me I need to shield my thyroid while you squish my boob into a pancake and then blast it with the very thing that is causing thyroid cancer?? does this seem ridiculous to anyone else? I mean if I need to shield my thyroid why am I allowing this to be done to my breast with the theory that I am preventing breast cancer with my yearly check up??? my friends mother died of breast cancer in the late 70's at age 39.....so my friend was told that she needed mammograms every six months starting in her 30's because she was at high risk......guess what? at 39 she had breast cancer too.......unfortunately in her mind this just proved that they were right but to my way of thinking they gave her breast cancer with two mammograms a year for 9 years!!!!
For 12 years I was the collector in my neighbourhood for The Canadian Cancer Society but then I decided i was just being used as a fund raiser for big pharma and I quit.......


Mammograms cause cancer?

http://www.naturalnews.com/034875_Planned_Parenthood_Komen_breast_cancer.html

[Nenuphar]

I'm glad to see supportive and like-minded responses here. I posted about this documentary on a mainstream forum, and suffice to say, the responses were not supportive - or even inquisitive. It seemed like I had trampled on what was sacred ground for some of those folks, who "wear the pink ribbon proudly". Some had family members die of breast cancer and took offense to the "attack" on the pink ribbon campaign and what (they thought) it stood for. Sadly, I feel they missed the point of my posting about the documentary. I daresay some didn't even watch the two minute trailer to see what it was about.

[mcat911]

Unless you or a family member is or has been through the devastating consequences of breast cancer, then you will not fully understand the mindset of being desperate for a solution. Some sufferers have only the charity campaigns to hold onto for a possible cure. What other methods are there to raise awareness and direct doctors/science to a cure. I doubt they've missed the point, but I'll bet they're upset. You didn't expect all ppl to pat you the back did you? You've made a fair point, so what shall we do about it, refuse them money?

[Nenuphar]

Unless you or a family member is or has been through the devastating consequences of breast cancer, then you will not fully understand the mindset of being desperate for a solution.

If you are assuming I haven't experienced first hand the devastating consequences of breast cancer, you would be mistaken. Believe me, I fully understand.


I doubt they've missed the point, but I'll bet they're upset. You didn't expect all ppl to pat you the back did you? You've made a fair point, so what shall we do about it, refuse them money?

Yes, certainly they are upset, no question. As was I. No, I was not expecting a unanimous "back patting", and no, it would be ridiculous to refuse them money. That would be unreasonable "all or nothing" thinking, wouldn't it?

[conk]

At the grocery yesterday the clerk asked if I'd like to donate a dollar to cancer research. Hmmmm, do I confuse the young kid while on a tirade? No, just politely say no thanks and leave. I'll give that dollar to the next homeless guy I see.

[Earth Angel]

I forwarded this link to a friend who has had breast cancer and takes part in many PINK ribbon events.......I didn't want to offend her so asked had she heard of it first, she said no send me the link.......after watching it she said she would have to agree.......that sooooooo much money is raised with these pink ribbons and where has it got us in the cure??? I find it offensive to have pink ribbons on the packaging of the foods I buy, like the subliminal BREAST CANCER program is always in our face somewhere. Maybe after this documentary many of the companies who claim to be helping will find it less profitable and it will go away???