Movie slams “pink-washing” in breast cancer campaign focus on profits

Reuters
September 17, 2011

TORONTO (Reuters) – Pink ribbons dumb down the grim realities of treating cancer, and hide the profit-focused core of many high-profile fund-raising events, according to a movie that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this week.

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“Pink Ribbons, Inc.” takes a detailed look at some of the colorful fundraising events in North America, where women, united in their fight against breast cancer and mostly dressed in pink, cheer their way along scenic routes.

The film questions the priorities of the campaigns and the broad use of the pink-ribbon logo as a fight-breast-cancer addition to products as diverse as T-shirts, toilet tissue and handguns.

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It questions the logic of focusing on cancer treatment rather than prevention, pointing out that pharmaceutical companies stand to gain if more people use their drugs, and urges more research on the environmental factors that may contribute to breast cancer.

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3 Responses to “Movie slams “pink-washing” in breast cancer campaign focus on profits”

  1. Max Gerson, Stanlewis Burzynski, I don’t know what else to say.

    I’ve seen Nalgene BPA leeching water bottles with the breast cancer ribbon on them, evil irony.

  2. ‘Run From the Cure’ Rick Simpson story of how cannabis helps cure cancer. Also 6 proven natural cures for cancer on youtube More people are killed by conventional radiation and chemo than are cured with only a 2 to 5 % success rate compared to combinations of proven natural cures effectively being used today which have a proven(although unrecognized by FDA terrorists) success rate of 90 % cure rate for non terminal (patients not radiation burned and chemo poisoned) and a 70 % success rate for terminal patients (patients already radiation burned and chemo poisoned) . Many conventional doctors worldwide are now admitting that truth. The FDA went so far as to try to make it illegal to say that raw almonds, apricot kernels and chlorella help prevent and cure cancer.

  3. Exactly why I NEVER donate to these…errm…ladies. There’s already several cures for cancer, so I am NOT donating to something that doesn’t even need research. I can go buy someone a $20 book and they’ll learn more than any “research” that’s going on with these so-called “organizations”.

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