In 2012, Komen Founder/CEO Nancy Brinker was paid $684,717, a 64% increase from her $417,000 salary in 2011. After criticism they pulled it from the market. Komen for the Cure created and sold a perfume called “ Promise Me” containing potentially cancer-causing toxic ingredients coumarin, oxybenzone, and toluene. Apparently the folks at Komen don’t know that fast food consumption is directly linked to obesity, and that obesity is the 2nd leading cause of cancer. Komen for the Cure partnered with KFC who sold pink buckets of chicken “for the cure”. How dare you sell ‘cupcakes for the cure’. Komen for the Cure has taken legal action against over 100 small non-profits for using the phrase “for the cure” in their fund-raising campaigns. For more on this, watch my 500k view rant Why I Don’t Race for the Cure. As if that wasn’t bad enough, donating to cancer research is essentially giving free money to drug companies who make billions in profit every year, and don’t need your money, and are only interested in research that can lead to patentable, highly profitable drugs that they can sell back to you. Simple math tells us that 79% of the money they raise isn’t going to anything that could produce a cure. Komen for the Cure raises goes to cancer research “for the cure”. Komen for the Cure - the world’s largest “breast cancer awareness” charity organization. Pinktober is fast approaching and this year I’m launching a preemptive strike to combat the tidal wave of pinkwashing propaganda that’s coming in a few weeks. I’ve assembled some of the most shocking facts about Susan G. All the proceeds go to breast cancer patients. Lastly, full disclosure: Chris has the SCAM shirt for sale and both of us do not make a dime out of this. You will be the judge how you feel about the facts we put together. Komen, the foundation behind the Breast Cancer Foundation (and the controversial Pink Ribbon). In the meantime, I want to share with you my friend Chris Wark’s (from Chris Beat Cancer) expose of Susan G. Expect more posts and recipes on that in October. We have heard enough about mammograms and self-inspection of our breasts. I am outraged that we still keep rambling on about “breast cancer awareness” and not prevention. 15 Ways to Prevent and Manage Breast Cancer Naturally.” The other article I recommend reading is “The Breast Cancer and Estrogen Link. This is one of the articles my team and I put together for the Breast Cancer Awareness month.
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