Komen Foundation: Selling Us for the Cure

Komen has been eager to accept corporate funds from the likes of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, but Eli Lilly also happens to be the sole producer of rGBH, a bovine growth hormone which, when it ends up in our dairy products, is known to increase cancer risks. What’s more, while Komen tells their supporters that the foundation’s partnership with the drugmaker is in service of finding a breast cancer cure, Eli Lilly - which also manufactures cancer treatment drugs - might profit from such a cure, or perhaps even prefer that it not be found.

Eli Lilly also manufactured DES, which Komen now denies may cause cancer. #facepalm

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  1. florida-uterati reblogged this from bibliofeminista
  2. loveandchunkybits said: The breast cancer thing is getting out of control. Bc there are many public health things govnt need to change (eg monitor levels of rGBH). Funding research labs isnt good enough, they need to do some lobbying, which can easily get complicated.
  3. notreallymuchofanything reblogged this from fresafresca
  4. fresafresca reblogged this from bibliofeminista and added:
    slightly related note: I was...late last night reading “Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast...
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