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[fellowtraveller]

There are many chemicals in products we use, products we consume, products we smoke. We live in a very toxic environment if the rate of cancers are on the rise, from some studies, it's expected to jump 30% in the next decade.

Once you tally up all the different sources of carcinogenics that we have in many of our products in our modern society, it's a wonder we are still alive at all.

The point The Squid is making is the same as one point in the movie: the very people who are major sponsors of the breast cancer fundrasing industry are the same companies who use known carcinogens in their products.

[GostHacked]

The point The Squid is making is the same as one point in the movie: the very people who are major sponsors of the breast cancer fundrasing industry are the same companies who use known carcinogens in their products.

I am quite aware of that bit of hypocracy. That kind of hypocracy is also in the food industry. Touting the benefits of diet soft drinks with subtances like aspartame, which will help you lose weight, ... in the end it actually makes you more fat than regular soft drinks.

It's turned into an industry it seems for cancer. Someone has to pay for these high priced fancy gala fundraising meetings. If most of the fundrasing money goes to pay for the process of fundraising, then there is a problem.

[fellowtraveller]

It's turned into an industry it seems for cancer

If only that were true, that all money went toward finsing causes and cures.

[GostHacked]

If only that were true, that all money went toward finsing causes and cures.

No one makes money when you are healthy. If a hospital is privatized, is profit a goal, or is helping people a goal? A doctor's salary can range in the 6 figures, an operation can also cost 6 figures. How does one expect to ever pay that off? Well at least you got your health........

[fellowtraveller]

No one makes money when you are healthy. If a hospital is privatized, is profit a goal, or is helping people a goal? A doctor's salary can range in the 6 figures, an operation can also cost 6 figures. How does one expect to ever pay that off? Well at least you got your health........

I don't get your point. There are no multibillion fundraising industries for healhty people, who would donate?

[GostHacked]

I don't get your point. There are no multibillion fundraising industries for healhty people, who would donate?

There would be no need if people were healthy and we lived in an environment that promotes heathly living. What exactly is your confusion? If people are always sick, the medical industry (hospitals, pharmaceuticles, doctors ect) are very profitable. There is not much money after the cure is found, there is a lot of money in mitigation of cancers.

This story came just in time it seems.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/02/22/nl-breast-removal-lawsuit-222.html?cmp=rss

She learned six years ago that the double mastectomy she had undergone in 1999 — after she was told she had cancer in both breasts — had been unnecessary.

She said her doctor told her testing mistakes had missed that she had had just pre-cancerous cells.

"The good news, he said, is you're not going to die of breast cancer because you didn't have it," Lewis, who also underwent six months of chemotherapy, told CBC News.

Edited by GostHacked, 22 February 2012 - 12:21 PM.