Before I
saw products on grocery shelves in October painted in pink for Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. Now if look closely I notice some products actually donate
money and some are just colored pink. Could they just be colored pink for
profit?
I buy
bottled water under the ‘whatever is less expensive’ principle of economics and
Acadia met those standards while shopping the other night. Examining the pink
packaging I discovered nowhere is there any mention of donated proceeds or
even of breast cancer awareness.
Even
more curious after a little Googling was to read news coverage from Mid-Atlantic and New England States of multiple
Breast Cancer Walks curiously mentioning thousands of participants “drank from bottles of
Acadia spring water with special pink labels”. Obviously least expensive and pink labels gets a lot of free marketing in October.
Grocery
shopping in October is obviously driven by pinkenomics, with the exception of Trick or
Treat candy. Pink displays abound promoting one product or brand or another; yet,
has anyone noticed any in-store awareness information or facts about breast
cancer - or just pink food coloring?
From a
guy’s perspective while the world paints itself pink for a month … LUNG CANCER kills more mothers, wives, and daughters each year
than breast cancer, uterine cancer, and ovarian cancer combined - what am I
missing here?
Patrick Leer
BLOGS:
Caregivingly Yours, MS Caregiver @ http://caregivinglyyours.blogspot.com/
My Lung Cancer Odyssey @ http://lung-cancer-survivor.blogspot.com/
health lung cancer
It's all about the boobs, dude...and really good politics. It drives a lot of us crazy out here in Cancerland.
ReplyDeleteHey Ruth! Wearing my black baseball cap with white lettering 'lung cancer survivor' yesterday, a young lady did a double take and asked me "shouldn't your hat be pink?" (sigh)
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