ELI LILLY IS MILKING CANCER

rBGH is an artificial hormone given to cows to make them produce more milk. It’s been linked to breast cancer and other health problems. Eli Lilly, the sole manufacturer of rBGH, has taken pinkwashing to a whole new level. By adding rBGH to the products they sell, Eli Lilly has completed its cancer profit circle: it helps create cancer with rBGH, it sells cancer treatment drugs like Gemzar, and it sells a drug, Evista, to reduce the risk of breast cancer. Eli Lilly’s cancer drugs made $2,683,000,000 for the company in 2008. Its potentially carcinogenic dairy hormone made millions of dollars in the same year. Eli Lilly is milking cancer.