FRIED CHICKEN FOR BREAST CANCER! WHAT’S NEXT? THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE PINK.

Making a deal with devil is a risky business. This used to be a BASIC lesson in life. Money given to you for an operation that was obtained from a bank robbery where someone got injured – that was DIRTY MONEY.

And yet if that dirty money can raise millions of dollars just by the size of the business, does that influx of money offset that initial dubious link?

Such is the case with our old friend KFC – you know the chook business that likes to forget it is FRIED as in Kentucky FRIED Chicken.  By supporting the Susan G Komen for the Cure it has already generated millions of dollars. And yet there has been enough evidence that shows that eating fatty food, fried foods and processed foods are linked to getting breast cancer (and cancer in general) in the first place.  So is this like saying “I gave you cancer now here is some money for the treatment”? And come on, while they give fifty cents per bucket sold, how much profit are they making from that association? What does a bucket of chicken sell for these days?

No fault to Susan G Komen that has developed 240 partnerships in its quest, and more power to them, but just as I would be wary of accepting money from cigarette manufacturers to battle asthma, or from those individual entrepreneurs in Colombia to battle drugs, this smacks of blatant commercialism that promotes fried chicken at the expense of women’s breasts while adding a cute pink color to soften the blow.

It is yet another example of deceptive business practices that mask the line between ethical and unethical,  a process that has been going on for decades and to which the general public has mostly accepted as the norm.  Well folks, it is not the norm. Just like hearing about daily shootings and murders in Oakland or Richmond should never be a norm.

And I did already talk about their lovely instant Death on a Napkin:Lick Them Fingers Good in my earlier post HERE.

Now if you want to do something good, support local dentist Robert Waldman and his wife Marci as they do the July 10 Avon Walk for the Cure. They are supporting their dental hygienist, Christine. You can sponsor Dr. Rob here and his wife Marci here.

MisterWriter