[NEDenise]

Friends,
Let the mad, Pink-tober message of awareness (rather than a CURE!!) begin!

This was in our very own cancer news feed.

Evidently, this October, Honey-baked Ham will be doing some very clever (and I'm sure well-intentioned) marketing.
Among other things, they will be swapping their trademark gold foil wrappers for Pink-tober ones.
One dollar of the price of each specially wrapped Pink-tober ham will go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Sounds good...right?
I can feel the glow of research... a cure being found.
But, alas... there's always a catch.

The Pink-tober ham money...
all of it... will go toward "awareness and mammograms".
In the article, the chairman of the NBCF is actually quoted as saying,
"The key to surviving breast cancer is early diagnosis."

Really? Based on what evidence!?
Tell that to the Stage 0s and Stage 1s who find themselves fighting for their lives PDQ!
That's who's advocating for us?
I'm not saying mammograms are bad. But come on!

We're AWARE already!! Find a CURE!!
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest -
where my very "aware and regularly examined" breasts used to be!
Sheesh!
Denise