A Reminder

When you’re sitting at home signing checks with your pink ribbon pen in a checkbook with pink ribbons on it and sipping your coffee from a pink coffee mug.

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Take a minute to realize that products that cost companies PENNIES to make, are being done up in pink and sold for RIDICULOUS markups. And we buy them, because the package inevitably reads, “a portion of this purchase will be donated to breast cancer research.”

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Look at the back of those products. The percentage donated is generally between 1 and 10%.

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So the 14c production cost of the pen being sold for $14.99 garners $1.40 towards “research.” (at best) Research that more often than not goes to Komen. Whose distribution of funds is SERIOUSLY sketchy. Also, most of those campaigns include an upper limit. As in… we’ll donate for every purchase UP TO $50,000 or whatever. Which means after they give their $50k, the rest is puuuure pink profit.

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If you really want to make an impact. If you really want to give your money to Cancer research, and Cancer care… donate to the Cancer Society. Or, find someone with cancer who’s raising funds for their own care, and donate directly. Try gofundme and search for public fundraisers under medical needs.

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Because otherwise, all you’re doing is funding the problem.

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Because let’s not forget that a lot of these, “a portion of profits” companies, produce products and byproducts that have been proven to CAUSE CANCER.

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Don’t buy pink products. Donate to causes that actually make a difference.