Stop with the pink stuff already.

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I have family members who had breast cancer. Most of them lost there lives to it. Anyway to raise money and awareness about breast cancer will help. Go Pink!!

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Aesthetic? I find it god-awful!

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Kim, I'm truly sorry about the loss and suffering of your family members but buying kitchenware is a stupid, inefficient way to solve the problem of breast cancer. How about we *demand* that our government meets the health needs of all the citizens that pay taxes to support it?

This is *marketing* targeted at people who are willing to accept a piecemeal approach to public health or who can feel better about it because their knives/pots/soup cans are pink.

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I like the knives seems like a good cause to me.

Rainey, if you want socialism move to a different country. This is the U.S. “Socialism free since 1776!”

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Adam,

I'm sure you meant to say "I don't like it when people have different opinions, and I should probably move to a country that supports my ideals and mine only instead of continuing to live in the USA.", but somehow, it still came out sounding like someone else is the problem.

Also, what is the US? The Internet, Slashfood? Whoa. Have some comfort food, enjoy the day.

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rainey is correct. The problem with these type of things is that it makes people feel like they have done their part. I bought a knife, wore a ribbon, etc... There are so many of these things now they have little "awareness" value.
If you really want to do something useful send money to an organization, volunteer, educate people about testing and early detection. Those things save lives, wearing a ribbon or using a pink knife does not.

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For an interesting twist on the topic of the "pinking" of breast cancer awareness, there are three articles I link to from my website, http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com, that I think you might like to read.

To access these three articles, please go to the links on the left side of my site, and look under “articles of importance."

1)"Welcome to Cancerland: A Mammogram Leads to a Cult of Pink Kitsch," by Barbara Ehrenreich. A classic.

2)"Chemo Concession" (contains some surprising information about the chemotherapy industry)

3) “Vaccine Against Cancer,” about a really interesting cancer treatment being used by a doctor in Germany.

All three articles will give you another perspective on the “think pink” phenomenon. I hope you will find them informative. Thanks very much for giving them a look!

Sincerely,
Julia Schopick
http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com

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