Dancing With Cancer Memoirs...The Nature Of The Beast

I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking (dangerous I know) since I was diagnosed with cancer. I've come to the conclusion this so-called 'War on Cancer' is waaay off mark. This war has been going on for decades with no end in sight. All the fundraising and strong talk on beating cancer is not on the right track. Cancer is too smart, cunning, and versatile. Instead, how about dishing some of that money out to people who are going broke and losing their homes while trying to save their asses? Or put the money towards prevention and detection? But I doubt even that will put an end to cancer. Why is that?

Because cancer will never be beat until people stop doing things that invite it to take hold in the first place.

I think most people here have realized that and are doing something about it. Sadly there are way too many others who choose not to. Society complains that teenagers have an immortality complex, thinking they can do really stupid things with no adverse affects. Well, there are millions of adults with the same mentality. And we cannot force people to stop and change dangerous behaviors that bring on dangerous illnesses.

On the other hand, there are others who don't give a rat's ass about anybody or anything but making money regardless of the consequences on human health, animal welfare, and the environment. The are many people who eat right and take good care of themselves and still they get cancer. Why?

How about making cigarette companies and factory farms fork over some dough to help pay for all the illnesses and suffering their products are creating? How about putting a ban on giving farm animals antibiotics and growth hormones? It's no secret what this crap does to human health but still it remains perfectly legal. How about imposing massive fines on companies and corporations for polluting the water we drink with animal waste, pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, and a host of other known carcinogens? What will it take to put an end to this insidious atrocity?

It will take each and every individual to empower themselves and take responsibility for their choices and STOP BUYING THEIR CRAP! If people would take the money they spend at doctor's offices and prescription medications and spend it instead on wise food choices, it could be done. Easily. It takes big bucks to run factory farms. Cut off their funding (our dollars) and they will fall. They are in business because we keep them in business. We pay them to give us products that are making us sick and killing us off.

We can't depend on the government to do something about this. They are in the back pockets of the very ones who are dishing out poisons to their fellow human beings. And until people wake up and smell the veggies, this 'war' will never end, and never be won.