Breast Cancer and the Corporate Interests

This week we talked about the corporate funding of research to find a cure for breast cancer, and how the cause has become this huge marketing ploy to get women to buy stuff, from lipsticks to pink blenders.

Now, companies are even dictating whom donations should come from.

I was appalled to read in La Presse this morning that thousands of dollars raised by a group of Vancouver-based strippers during their annual event "Exotic Dancers for Cancer" were refused by the Breast Cancer Society of Canada. Apparently, the Society's main sponsors don't want to be associated with any "controversial" donors. You can read the full article (in French) here.

I am truly disgusted.