“I started out researching an article about mammograms, and in the process I uncovered all of this other mind-blowing information about Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the pink ribbon campaign. I even created a file called ‘Hypocrisy, Doublespeak, and Conflicts of Interest.’ Later, that file got subdivided into three separate files: ‘Monsanto,’ ‘American Cancer Society,’ and ‘Pinkwashing.’ Read more…
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Exposed: The Mammogram Myth and the Pinkwashing of America
I had not yet turned 40 when I read the startling statistic that for every 2000 women who submit to ten years of annual mammograms, one will have her life prolonged and ten will be over-diagnosed and treated unnecessarily. But two years later, when my nurse practitioner urged me in for a baseline, I acquiesced. A call-back led to an…
One Canary Sings – And Writes!
Funny how things happen sometimes. At Wildbranch, a 5-day writing workshop for environmental writers sponsored by Orion magazine, as I returned from a workshop about electronic media publication, I found a Facebook message from Amanda Sears, Associate Director of the Environmental Health Strategy Center. She had seen the photograph that I had “shared” from Orion‘s Facebook page… me wearing my…