I'd like to see this happening, promoting an alcohol addiction center may also help the cause. There are a lot of money involved in endorsing alcohol and tobacco, we need to find the best ways to compete with that.
BP is such a joke… they should all be arrested along with the US govt. How long ago did they cap the leak? And how many legitimate claims are still “pending” from damages they suffered back in the beginning of the summer? I happen to know three people that were affected directly by BP’s shady PR tactics and manipulation of our laws, one of whom was a journalist who was almost arrested and charged with felonies for taking pictures of oil covered animals near the coast. Not only is it bad enough that thousands of fishers’ lively hoods are ruined for god knows how many years to come, they were paid a pathetic amount of money to clean up BP’s own mess. To add even more insult to injury, BP used Corexit 9527, which contains mainly 2-butoxyethanol, which is very toxic. You wouldn’t have to be a scientist to know that, since in the first week of using it over 70 fisherman ended up at the hospital. Of course if you even inquired about this, I’m sure the govt (which is pretty much owned by oil companies) would deal with you quite quickly, let alone taking pictures of it in an attempt to run a story on it. If you didn’t know already, the govt is doing what they do best… crapping on the 1st amendment: naturalnews.com/029130_Gulf_of_Mexico_censorship.html. My friend who almost got arrested on felony charges simply went out on a boat into about 30 feet of water and used a water proof cam to photograph one of the many oil plumes forming at the bottom of the surface (which BP vehemently denies). Now here comes the hilarious part. He switched the film in his camera with a blank one in the event they were stopped by police, which they were as soon as they got back to shore. They let him go but still took his name down, and what do you know... later that night, 2 guys wearing black hoodies attempted to break into his house. He caught pics of them on his home security system (he saved the pics… adt home security systems break in photos). Hmm, I wonder who paid these guys to break in and what they were after? Definitely not BP or our govt, that’s for sure!
That's just the point. Because we're informed about the risks of smoking in relation to lung cancer, it's considered a choice and is therefore termed "self-inflicted". The fact of the matter is that most cancers are self-inflicted based on the choices we make as consumers. As a society, our ignorance allows us to pass ourselves off as the victims of these other cancers. It's one of the reasons the whole *think pink* campaign is under scrutiny. While we're busy pouring money in to passively finding a cure, we're distracted from the focus that might actually make a difference; real awareness, as to the cause.
We ARE making choices, whether we are cognizant of it, or not. It is true that chemicals have invaded our everyday world: the foods we consume and products we use. But the *awareness* part is up to us, as individuals. It's up to us to educate ourselves and protect ourselves and our children from the harmful substances all around us. Ultimately, it is up to ourselves to protect ourselves, because obviously big brother ain't lookin' out for us!
Ok, how about *fighting* breast cancer with actual *awareness*. I understand that the issue of breast cancer strikes a chord with many of us. We all have mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, and since this is a growing epidemic, many of us have experienced its effects up close. I think this debate has gone off topic. The issue at hand here is not gun safety. It's not about statistics of the ways in which women die. It is about the *breast cancer awareness* campaign itself.
We're all so caught up in the hype of finding a cure, that we're forgetting to resort to the most important tool in this fight - knowledge. It's not about money. It's not about seeing pink and thinking about your Aunt Mildred who died the year before last from breast cancer. It's about educating ourselves and our children about the hazardous chemicals in everyday products that may one day become cancer.
The fact that *awareness* still means pouring money into a cure is just a way of passing off responsibility, instead of taking control and actually being aware of where this cancer, and others, are coming from. The fact that there's a pink handle on a gun is just as ironic as cosmetic companies jumping on the pink bandwagon even though their products contain known carcinogens. It's marketing. It's about money. And it promotes the wrong kind of awareness. It's a distraction: a way for citizens to turn a blind eye from the real problem because they feel they've done their part in contributing to the eradication of this disease.
It needs to be about intention; about staying true to one's own values; about taking responsibility for one's own awareness; about learning the facts, the causes. The best way to avoid dying from cancer, is to never have it in the first place. There are over 80,000 chemicals registered for use in the US, of which less than 7% have been tested for effects on human health. That's scary. We are obviously not being protected, so we need to save ourselves. Let's wake up before it's too late.
I'd like to see this happening, promoting an alcohol addiction center may also help the cause. There are a lot of money involved in endorsing alcohol and tobacco, we need to find the best ways to compete with that.
BP is such a joke… they should all be arrested along with the US govt. How long ago did they cap the leak? And how many legitimate claims are still “pending” from damages they suffered back in the beginning of the summer? I happen to know three people that were affected directly by BP’s shady PR tactics and manipulation of our laws, one of whom was a journalist who was almost arrested and charged with felonies for taking pictures of oil covered animals near the coast. Not only is it bad enough that thousands of fishers’ lively hoods are ruined for god knows how many years to come, they were paid a pathetic amount of money to clean up BP’s own mess. To add even more insult to injury, BP used Corexit 9527, which contains mainly 2-butoxyethanol, which is very toxic. You wouldn’t have to be a scientist to know that, since in the first week of using it over 70 fisherman ended up at the hospital. Of course if you even inquired about this, I’m sure the govt (which is pretty much owned by oil companies) would deal with you quite quickly, let alone taking pictures of it in an attempt to run a story on it. If you didn’t know already, the govt is doing what they do best… crapping on the 1st amendment: naturalnews.com/029130_Gulf_of_Mexico_censorship.html. My friend who almost got arrested on felony charges simply went out on a boat into about 30 feet of water and used a water proof cam to photograph one of the many oil plumes forming at the bottom of the surface (which BP vehemently denies). Now here comes the hilarious part. He switched the film in his camera with a blank one in the event they were stopped by police, which they were as soon as they got back to shore. They let him go but still took his name down, and what do you know... later that night, 2 guys wearing black hoodies attempted to break into his house. He caught pics of them on his home security system (he saved the pics… adt home security systems break in photos). Hmm, I wonder who paid these guys to break in and what they were after? Definitely not BP or our govt, that’s for sure!
Ok, how about *fighting* breast cancer with actual *awareness*. I understand that the issue of breast cancer strikes a chord with many of us. We all have mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, and since this is a growing epidemic, many of us have experienced its effects up close. I think this debate has gone off topic. The issue at hand here is not gun safety. It's not about statistics of the ways in which women die. It is about the *breast cancer awareness* campaign itself.
We're all so caught up in the hype of finding a cure, that we're forgetting to resort to the most important tool in this fight - knowledge. It's not about money. It's not about seeing pink and thinking about your Aunt Mildred who died the year before last from breast cancer. It's about educating ourselves and our children about the hazardous chemicals in everyday products that may one day become cancer.
The fact that *awareness* still means pouring money into a cure is just a way of passing off responsibility, instead of taking control and actually being aware of where this cancer, and others, are coming from. The fact that there's a pink handle on a gun is just as ironic as cosmetic companies jumping on the pink bandwagon even though their products contain known carcinogens. It's marketing. It's about money. And it promotes the wrong kind of awareness. It's a distraction: a way for citizens to turn a blind eye from the real problem because they feel they've done their part in contributing to the eradication of this disease.
It needs to be about intention; about staying true to one's own values; about taking responsibility for one's own awareness; about learning the facts, the causes. The best way to avoid dying from cancer, is to never have it in the first place. There are over 80,000 chemicals registered for use in the US, of which less than 7% have been tested for effects on human health. That's scary. We are obviously not being protected, so we need to save ourselves. Let's wake up before it's too late.
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