We are all living on this planet.  Living our day to day existence, as stead fast gardener’s of our lives.  Tackling our weed-covered lawn with a vengeance, yanking and pulling and slashing crabgrass and clover until the grass is pristine and perfect  But, what lies beneath?  What lies beneath our pristine and perfect garden?  Within weeks we will have to tackle the garden again, yanking and pulling, a job never ending.  We are the gardeners of our lives.  Our life and death stage: The Human Body.  

Fight Pink is going green.  We are looking for answers to your questions regarding the environment; from the foods we eat, the make-up we wear and the cleaning products that we use daily, the enviornment in general and how our interaction with it effects our bodies.  There are many toxic exposures daily in our lives, and we need to recognize this issue, and organize as a whole, men and women, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons.  It begins with organizing and understanding relationships. Understanding relationships with each other and with the planet.   Building loose networks of many leaders who are working to their own strenghs and passion and linking up to a broader movement, it makes us more flexible and gives us an advantage.  Its progressive social change in which we can win in any situation.  By organizing, understanding relationships we can begin to watch what we have done invisibly become visible. 

The Breast Cancer Fund published a report released in 2008 called State of the Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment, fifth edition.  Click here to view the PDF version of the report. To view the report in French please click here. 

Below is an excerpt from the report.

“The Moving Forward section of the report was written for breast cancer prevention, women’s health and environmental health and justice advocates as well as others interested in developing policy and research agendas at the state and federal levels that call for the identification and elimination of the environmental links to breast cancer.  This report builds on the data suggesting that recent declines in cancer incidence rates are associated with decreases in HRT use.  At the same time, it recognizes that over the past 30 years there have been significant improvements in cleaning our environment of some contaminants associated with breast cancer risk. These new data offer real promise for the future that by decreasing exposures to carcinogens, such as exogenous estrogens, estrogenmimics and endocrine disruptors, we may continue to lower breast cancer levels-and actually prevent the devastating disease-in the future.”

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