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Pinkwashing Cancer Causers Pretend to Care
by
Watchdog | 10.14.2007
So many of the top corporate buildings in Philly are bathed in Pink Lights. WhY?....to convince us that cancer causing industries care about human health and life. **** Last year the Breast Cancer Cure coalition had their big Pink gala at Loews Hotel. There’s no way of telling if calls at that time persuaded them that having an event of this sort at a hotel owned by the corporate “family” that manufactures Kent, Newport, True and other cigarettes may be less than appropriate. This year, Pink, Inc., is holding it’s “pink tie” formal extravaganza fund raiser at the Ritz-Carlton. Don’t know (yet) if that place is linked to Carlton cigarettes. And, who knew that Loews, besides being a big cigarette firm, also is into oil drilling…to supply tobacco pesticide makers with petro chems? It’s also into health insurance sales to those who want to protect themselves from catastrophic medical expenses due to diseases caused by Loews’ other products. **** Novartis and Zeneca are top proud promoters and sponsors (and beneficiaries) of the Pink festivities. Maybe this is a way of making up for being tobacco pesticide suppliers..i. e. in the most toxic/carcinogenic part of the “cancer stick” industry. Though they unloaded what they call their “agricultural chemical” (i.e., pesticide) divisions, they still have not been subpoenaed to any court or inquiry to explain how they ought not be charged with reckless endangerment, and un-informed experimentation upon, if not actual harms of, millions of people who A) did not know of , were not warned about, and were not protected from, those or other deadly, toxic, carcinogenic industrial chemicals in cigarettes, B) who thought and were told the products were just tobacco, and C) believed that their tax dollars were to pay sworn and duty bound regulators to protect them from exactly this kind of corporate product contamination. See this: Scroll down for Novartis and Zeneca tobacco info…and quite a few others, some local. The other locals somehow bowed out of the Pink thing. Maybe they don’t make and sell “cures” to their victims. No money in pink promos for them. If they are virtually invisible as parts of the mass Guinea Pigging and cancer causing industries, and even Big Cig, there’s no need to waste time and money Pinkwashing themselves. **** This article from CBS News, of all places, suggests the complexity of all this. It’s almost impossible to know what firm made what chemical, and who makes that stuff now, or who owns that firm, or what overlaps, or etc. It’s all a suggestion for a possible Board Game…if one can be devised where the pieces change colors and names all the time without the players knowing.. If there’s any pink toy or other token besides Teddy Bears and Ribbons that would best raise awareness about the breast cancer epidemic, it might be Pink Cigarettes. THAT would open the door to proper discussion and understanding. |
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