Wear Pink

[CharlotteBeer.com]

Last October (and probably today's game) I wore my wife's pink Panthers hat to the tailgates and the games. No money from the purchase of that hat went to any charity. I wore it to show my support not only for those battling breast cancer, but also for some people close to me that are in the field of fighting all cancers.

It is not as much about giving money for research, but more for raising awareness about early detection, early diagnosis, and treatment.

Did you have to explain why you were wearing pink to anyone? I doubt it, because everyone and their mother knows that it's to raise awareness for breast cancer. Which, ironically, makes wearing pink unnecessary.

I'm just playing devil's advocate here. I think it's great that you guys are trying to raise awaress; I've just become so cynical that I don't think it does much good.

[Catdaddy]

Well the NFL selling the pink gear across the whole country is a win for them and a win for breast cancer research. How many people would buy just a plain pink shirt or hat? It having your team logo on it makes you buy it and you fell good you bought it.

[PhillyB]

someone needs to set it up so that julius peppers is the only motherfuger out there on the field wearing pink poo. i wouldnt stop laughing for a month

[coxc63]

My gma died february of '09 of bone cancer, so I understand how it feels to lose someone to such a thing. But my question is cancer awareness has raised over billions of dollars through charities and donations, what has the money went to, they haven't came close to a cure well just recently maybe and it just seems like all the money donated is just going to the salaries of the scientist performing the research. Its the same old "Oh you have cancer, we haven't found anything to cure it yet so lets drain the rest of your body with radiation through kemo therapy". Last I checked radiation causes cancer so why pump it into peoples bodies.

Soo many people spend money on the research for a cure and when they do find one (which I believe they already have, but are refusing to release it) they will charge out the ass for it, i mean hell everyone paid for them to find this "cure" why not receive the treatment for free, its only rational.

Oh and sorry for your loss man.

[Anybodyhome]

I'm wearing a pink Ping golf shirt today. Not solid, mind you, but with some black horizontal striping. No Panther logo anywhere to be found, I just like the quality of the shirt and I don't mind wearing pink.

But, not to be a smartass or anything, will there be any folks on here from the other thread burning pink Peppers jerseys?

[Bo In Monroe]

I moved this one to the lounge as it had gotten way off of Panthers news. You may now continue taking shots at each other.

[TheSaint]

Some of yall are jackasses

[Hawk]

I'm offended by the pink...what about all the men that get breast cancer?

[mmmbeans]

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?page_id=13

1. How much money from your purchase actually goes toward breast cancer? Is the amount clearly stated on the package?

When the package does state the amount of the donation, is that amount enough? Fox Home Entertainment, for example, sold “DVDs for the Cure” for $14.95 and donated 50 cents to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Is this a significant contribution, or a piddly amount? You decide. If you can’t tell how much money is being donated, or if you don’t think it’s enough, give directly to the organization instead.

2. What is the maximum amount that will be donated?

Many companies place a cap on the amount of money that will be donated. For example, Give Hope Jeans, sold by White House Black Market for $88, donated “net proceeds” from the sale to the organization Living Beyond Breast Cancer. But they’ve capped their contributions at $200,000. This means that once they had reached the $200,000 limit they stopped contributing, no matter how many pairs of jeans were purchased.

In some cases, that cap is a generous amount. In some cases it’s not. But you should know that, whenever there is a cap, your individual purchase may not contribute anything to the cause, depending on when you shop and whether the cap has already been met.

3. How are the funds being raised?

Does making the purchase ensure a contribution to the cause? Or do you, the shopper, have to jump through hoops to make sure the money gets where it’s supposed to go? Lean Cuisine, for example, had a pink ribbon on its boxes of frozen meals, but the purchase of the meal did not result in a donation to a breast cancer organization. Instead, consumers had to visit the Lean Cuisine web site and buy a pink Lean Cuisine lunch tote. Only then would $5 of the tote purchase be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

4. To what breast cancer organization does the money go, and what types of programs does it support?

Does the product’s package tell you where the money goes and what will be done with it? For example, Penn is selling pink tennis balls and the package states that 15 cents of your purchase will go to “a Breast Cancer Research Organization.” It doesn’t tell you which organization or what kind of research will be done. Will the money go to fund the same studies that have been ongoing for decades (which already get enormous financial support)? Or will it go to under-funded, innovative research into the causes of breast cancer?

If the donation is going to breast cancer services, is it reaching the people most in need, in the most effective way? The Breast Cancer Site store, for example, donates money to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, which helps pay for mammograms for women who cannot afford them. But mammograms are already covered for low-income women through the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program. Although this screening program does have limitations, what is most needed is the funding to get low-income women treatment if breast cancer is found. Click here to learn more about this issue.

5. What is the company doing to assure that its products are not actually contributing to the breast cancer epidemic?

Many companies that raise funds for breast cancer also make products that are linked to the disease. Breast Cancer Action calls these companies “pinkwashers.” BMW, for example, gives $1 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure each time you test-drive one of their cars, even though pollutants found in car exhaust are linked to breast cancer. Many cosmetics companies whose products contain chemicals linked to breast cancer also sell their items for the cause.

[Jangler]

Just better to write a check and send it in yourself, at least you know your money is going where you want it. Instead of trying to be cool with a pink hat or jersey.

[charlotte49er]

Actually it's the whole month of October

I was with you the whole way, until they showed the guy at the Cowboys-Titans game. He was wearing a pink t-shirt with a hugh beer belly. Not an attractive combination! They should have showed his wife next to him. She had on a pink t-shirt, and was MUCH better looking! (She was busy texting someone though and not really paying attention to the game.)

[LifeisaGarden]

I was at a garage sale a about a year ago and a person was selling boxes of pink ribbons, pink shirts, pink ribbon buttons & hat pins, pink ribbon key chains and some other stuff too.

I asked the person if the proceeds from the sale of that stuff was going to the pink ribbon foundation. She said she didn't know and the person that would know was not there.

There's several things that just doesn't seem right about that to me.

[fitty76]

Anyone going to wear blue for Prostate Cancer?

[CharlotteBeer.com]

I was at a garage sale a about a year ago and a person was selling boxes of pink ribbons, pink shirts, pink ribbon buttons & hat pins, pink ribbon key chains and some other stuff too.

I asked the person if the proceeds from the sale of that stuff was going to the pink ribbon foundation. She said she didn't know and the person that would know was not there.

There's several things that just doesn't seem right about that to me.

Exactly. People (and companies) like this are the ones profiting off of other peoples' well-intentioned naïveté. And yet I'm the jackass for not wearing a pink garment when it really doesn't matter.