Cancer! Let's Celebrate!

October is here! To celebrate, the streets are littered with toxic pink plastic to make us aware it is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Awareness Month organizers who are responsible for the decorations are so totally UNAWARE of the toxicity and health risks of polluting the environment with plastics. What a contradiction, but appropriately symbolic of this month-long fundraising event.

Since the 1940s the American government has been supporting cancer research in an effort to find a cure for the disease. What have they accomplished? Not much. It would be inconvenient to find a cure for something that supports so many special interest groups. Capitalism would fail without cancer.

We know what the cure is for cancer because we are constantly being informed what causes cancer. Read the newspaper, listen to the radio, watch television. Being informed isn't hard. Let's see. What have I read, listened to, and watched in the last ten years? Cell phones cause brain cancer. Deodorants cause breast cancer. Feminine hygiene products cause ovarian cancer. Teeth whitening products cause mouth cancer. Black hair dye causes prostate cancer. Shampoo ingredients cause any kind of cancer. Fresh produce laced with pesticides and chemical fertilizers causes all kinds of cancer. Birth control pills cause lots of cancer. Toluene causes cancer. Toluene? You know that ingredient found in explosives, auto supplies, fragrances and perfumes? Heck, smoking causes cancer. Is anyone not aware of that?  Do we care? Are shampoos and cigarettes still on the shelf at our grocery stores? Has sales gone down even a tiny bit for cell phones?

And what about the cancer-causing toxins in our environment that we take for granted: car exhaust, factory pollution, chemically-treated water supplies.

The government goes out of its way to assure the public that everything is safe. The FDA does all kinds of studies, tests, and trials and claims everything is safe. It's all fine. No worries. Spend your money freely.  Which special interest group is paying for the studies? How do they sway the results so their partnerships benefit by making more money? Even with all the promotion and advertising used to cover up the warnings, the truth leaks out. People really don't know what causes cancer? Is everyone blind, deaf, and dumb? And I mean dumb in the most humbling way. But no one seems to care.
 

It's not hard to find out what causes cancer. What is hard is for people to get off their asses and do something to help themselves and those around them live healthier lives. But it's too inconvenient. It's too hard. It's much easier to give money and keep their heads buried in the sand.

I've asked a few of the donation-begging sponsors of this month-long cancer guilt trip where does the money they collect go?  Those who even have an answer say with unfounded excitement, "Oh, research for a cancer cure!" But where does the money go? No one knows. I would assume someone might say the American Cancer Society, but even if this was the script they read and memorized, they would be hard pressed to know WHERE THE MONEY GOES. Who really benefits from this money? Where is this cure that was promised more than seventy years ago? That's a lot of money that's done very little.

BUT, BUT, it's to find a CURE! This has to be the most preposterous idea I could ever imagine, and people really buy into this through guilt, fear and manipulation. They haven't found a CURE in sixty years. People are dying, we know what causes cancer, and yet people only whine. It's very American to do nothing except wait for that miracle cure, that quick fix, the easy out. Maybe a pill one can take that will make everything better? Instead of making an effort by adjusting lifestyles and bad habits to save themselves and the people around them, they want it easy and giving money to a blind cause helps lessen the guilt of apathy and laziness. Let someone else find a CURE while they smoke their cigarettes, use their cell phones, and dye their hair. Then when they do get the dreaded death sentence, they and their loved ones can plead how unfair life is. Too bad there isn't a CURE. Let's have a few more spaghetti feeds to earn more money to find that CURE. Only make sure that spaghetti is freeze dried with a whole lot of unpronounceable chemical preservatives, artificial flavors, dyes and colors listed on the label.

I'm so sick of the hypocrisy. Instead of getting volunteers to run around asking for money for a worthless cause, why not challenge each other not to smoke? Why not put all that money back into the development of an electric car? Why not demand only organic food be sold in stores? Why not boycott chemically-scented products? Why not stop patronizing McDonalds and Starbucks and eat real food? Why don't people challenge themselves and others to be the healthiest they can be? Why not stop supporting cancer with their bad habits?

Nothing doing. We're capitalists. It's all about the almighty dollar. It's so much easier to lay back and give money to find a "cure" than to take responsibility. And of course, it's so much easier to hang toxic pink plastic all over the town so everyone thinks we are doing something productive when in fact,after the celebration is over, no one even bothers to take it down. It floats through the streets for months as a reminder of the wasted energy.

Happy National Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Let's Celebrate!

It's so hypocritical.

 

Domestic Terrorism and Chemical Warfare

Chemical companies own the United States. How our lives have become saturated with poisonous chemicals is an atrocity. Why we have allowed this to happen over time is a mystery. I think it's due to a lot of fancy footwork on behalf of the government and the money-making capitalistic machine, public relations misinformation and false advertising, as well as compliancy and incompetency on the part of the Food and Drug Administration. We wonder about the ethics of weapons of mass destruction and chemical warfare, apathetically relieved wars happen on other continents, but what about the garbage that is allowed in our environment in the disguise of household conveniences?


Below are just a handful of some of the most toxic chemicals we encounter everyday:

formaldehyde dimethylpolysiloxane toluene triethanolamine turpentine aspartame benzen butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) bisphenol A (BPA)  centrominium chloride  calcium carbonate  chloramine cocoamidopropyl betaine  N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide  dimethacrylate  dioxins  ethylene oxide  fluoride  glycol ethers  hydrofluorosilicic acid  hydroxybenzene  d-limonene  methychloroisothiazolinone  1-aspartyl 1-phenylalanine methyl ester  methylsulfonylmethane  monosodium glutamate  methyl tertiary-butyl ether  naphthalene nitrosamines  nonyl phenol paradichlorobenzene  perchloroethylene  petroleum  phenylmercuric acetate  polybrominated diphenyl ethers  polyvinyl chloride  saccharin  sodium dichloroisocynaurate dihydrate  sodium laureth sulfate  sodium lauryl sulfate  tetrachloroethylene  perchloroethylene  tertiary butyl hydroquinone  tetrahydrozoline hydrochloride  trihalomethanes  titanium dioxide  hydroxypropyl beta-cyclodextrin p-dichlorobenzene




Below are some examples of where you might find these chemicals in your everyday lives:

perfumes  colognes   bleach  cleaning products  floor waxes  furniture polishes  window cleaner  carpets  mattresses  furniture  furnaces  laminated flooring  air fresheners  wood, treated  fiberglass insulation  paint thinners  plastic wrap  plastic containers  playground equipment  soaps and detergents  fabric softeners and sheets  paints, house  bug sprays and pesticides  dry cleaning  weed killers  acrylic and oil paints  ceramic glazes  copy machine toner  printer inks  felt pens  white out  car exhaust  antifreeze  automobile oil  gasoline  car interiors  clothing  fabric  sheets and linens  candles  non-organic food and drink  canned foods  food coloring and flavorings  air fresheners  prescriptions  spermicides  latex  baby lotions  baby powder  diapers baby bottles  toys  shampoo  hair conditioners  makeup  deodorants  body washes  lotions   breath sprays  toothpaste  tooth whiteners  fingernail polish  hair spray  hair gel  hair dyes  toilet paper  facial tissues  bottled water  kitty litter  pet food  flea sprays, collars and dips

 

What have I forgotten that affects you greatly?

 

Do you think the FDA is doing its job?