October - Are you ready? Yoplait Wants YOU!

[dianerenem]

I am honored to have been picked by Cafemom to be a part of the Influencer Program. This month and next CafeMom is partnering with Yoplait during their annual Save Lids to Save Lives campaign. For every pink lid sent in to Yoplait, Yoplait will donate 10 cents to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, up to $1.5 million. And they guarantee a donation of at least $500,000. This is what the lids look like...

I have a team for collecting lids!!

Please see my home page or visit the Yoplait site! Links below!

http://www.yoplait.com/slsl/Default.aspx My Team

http://www.cafemom.com/yoplaitbreastcancerawareness/ 

Cafemom's Breast Cancer Awareness page

http://www.cafemom.com/group/85226/

Cafemom's Save Lids to Save Lives™ group

My team will be collecting lids throughout the country with the help of friends and family. Locally we will be setting up collection boxes at various locations and encouraging our contacts to ask for lids from friends and family in places such as School, Work, Church and anyplace else they can. I know with everyone's support we can make a difference!

If you'd like to help...please send your lids to:

Linda

C/O LYNDELOU, INC.

P.O. Box 18011

S. Tamiami Trl.

Ste. 16, PMB 58F

Ft. Myers, FL. 33908

TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR YOUR LIDS YOU MUST INCLUDE CM SCREEN NAME!!!!

Thank you for your support!

 

[dianerenem]

Sep. 19, 2008 at 4:27 PM

I think it is a noble thing to be a part of breast cancer awareness.  I have done my share of walks and charity events, click for the cure, etc.  then I stumbled across a website ... www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org ... and it made me SO much more aware of how much these companies are really helping (or NOT).  take, for example, the write up on the yoplait campaign ...

Yoplait’s fall campaign, Save Lids to Save Lives, continues to urge consumers to buy pink-lidded cups of Yoplait yogurt. For each pink lid mailed back to the company by December 31, Yoplait donates ten cents to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, up to $1.5 million. Sadly, a woman would have to eat three containers of Yoplait every day during the four-month campaign to raise $36 for the cause–and the yogurt is made from cows treated with rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone). Recent studies show that rBGH dairy products may be linked with an increased risk of breast, colon, and prostate cancer.

I don't want to burt your bubble, but some of these companies are contributing to the problem, not the cure.

[Lb128f]

Sep. 19, 2008 at 5:25 PM

dianerenem Thank you for your comment! I think everything in life has some "down" side. The FDA seems to think rBGH is okay to use...it's been used for over 10 years. I am not saying your views aren't accurate...just that some have a different opinion. It is good for people to be aware. 

Report on the Food and Drug Administration's Review of the Safety of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin http://www.fda.gov/cvm/RBRPTFNL.htm

and....http://www.fda.gov/cvm/CVM_Updates/cpetup.html

(3) The fate and effects of rbGH in milk

Like most dietary proteins, rbGH is degraded by digestive enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract and not absorbed intact.

 

(Original Poster)

[nik_nak_mom]

Sep. 19, 2008 at 6:28 PM

Count me in..I am showing my support and commented on your other post before seeing this one!

Voting popular..The word needs to be spread

[LYNDELOU]

Sep. 19, 2008 at 7:26 PM

I am with you on this Sis (Linda) !!! I have joined hands with you ...........!!!!!

            Thanks for helping out with fighting for a cure for BREAST CANCER....What a awesome way to show your support....I already have people saving lids!!!

HELP SAVE LIDS LADIES......DO YOUR PART.....HELP SAVE A LIFE!!!!!

I voted popular ......   : )

[Moomie]

Sep. 19, 2008 at 8:08 PM

I'm already on a team, but I wish yours good luck! :)

[TazzMom]

Sep. 19, 2008 at 10:39 PM

CONGRATULATIONS!!  on being chosen as an Influencer.   I can think of noone more deserving!   Good Luck with your Save the Lids campaign!!    A very worthy cause that I have been supporting for years!!

[nattersmommy]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 12:50 AM

Im RIGHT here with you on this ......................AMEN to all who support

[ProudSingleMum]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 2:21 AM

Voted Popular, care to do the same for me?! :D

[sarahlove]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 5:13 PM

THANK YOU LADIES I will see what I can do to collect them here.

[smiley_netta]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 5:57 PM

Unfortunately, I don't think we even get the pink lids over here. :( I have yet to see them, at any rate. If I come across any, though, I'll be sure to save them and help your team out!