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nedhepburn: The Susan G. Komen Foundation For Breast Cancer removed over $400,000 worth of funding from Planned Parenthood, which, you know, screens for breast cancer. This is all, of course, due to right-ring pro “life” group pressure. They Komen Foundation DID - however - think it was totally OK to put their branding all over this Smith & Wesson 9mm! Firearms were the second most common cause of violent death among women, just after car crashes! Take that, Planned Parenthood! Let’s not forget the pink-chicken-buckets from KFC a couple of years ago, which again were another bizarre PR grab from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, because when you think of “health” you ALWAYS think of KFC, right? You’d think if they wanted to actually stop cancer they’d put more funding towards breast cancer screenings, but there we go. This is where we’re at right now.  Don’t donate to the Komen foundation. It’s emotional blackmail. They just throw the money behind getting more money for the foundation, not towards stopping the disease. My understanding is that SGK foundation doesn’t initiate everything that someone slaps pink on and says they’ll donate money if you buy. In fact I think it would be absurd to believe that every pink’d spatula, dish towel, travel coffee mug, kitchen appliance, yogurt lid & so on that claims to donate money to SGK was courted by or even ok’d by the company. Hungry Howie’s & KFC both came under fire in recent years for using this as a promotion while only donating something like 1% of proceeds up to a certain (small) amount money.

nedhepburn:

The Susan G. Komen Foundation For Breast Cancer removed over $400,000 worth of funding from Planned Parenthood, which, you know, screens for breast cancer. This is all, of course, due to right-ring pro “life” group pressure.

They Komen Foundation DID - however - think it was totally OK to put their branding all over this Smith & Wesson 9mm! Firearms were the second most common cause of violent death among women, just after car crashes! Take that, Planned Parenthood!

Let’s not forget the pink-chicken-buckets from KFC a couple of years ago, which again were another bizarre PR grab from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, because when you think of “health” you ALWAYS think of KFC, right? You’d think if they wanted to actually stop cancer they’d put more funding towards breast cancer screenings, but there we go. This is where we’re at right now. 

Don’t donate to the Komen foundation. It’s emotional blackmail. They just throw the money behind getting more money for the foundation, not towards stopping the disease.

My understanding is that SGK foundation doesn’t initiate everything that someone slaps pink on and says they’ll donate money if you buy. In fact I think it would be absurd to believe that every pink’d spatula, dish towel, travel coffee mug, kitchen appliance, yogurt lid & so on that claims to donate money to SGK was courted by or even ok’d by the company. Hungry Howie’s & KFC both came under fire in recent years for using this as a promotion while only donating something like 1% of proceeds up to a certain (small) amount money.

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2 February 2012 • reblog: nedhepburn