LIVING: Can A Pink Bucket Of KFC Cure Cancer?
SodaHead Living
2010/05/18 15:43:22
Eyebrows are being raised over a merger between a breast cancer charity and Kentucky Fried Chicken. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the largest breast cancer advocacy group in the world, has partnered with the fast food, fried chicken restaurant chain in a national “Buckets for the Cure” campaign. Through the program, which began last month and will continue through the end of May, KFC will donate 50 cents to Komen for every pink bucket of chicken it sells, with a minimum one million dollar donation and a target of eight million to fund breast cancer research an local Komen affiliates.
On their website, Komen announces “KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure are teaming up to spread educational messaging via a major national campaign which will reach thousands of communites served by nearly 5,000 KFC restaurants.”
Health and cancer experts have been quick to point out the mixed messages inherent in placing a pink ribbon on a bucket of fried chicken. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research there is “convincing evidence that excess body fats ups the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.” Obesity is also connected to shorter survival rates for women who develop cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute’s website, studies “have shown that an increased risk of developing colorectal, pancreatic, and breast cancer is associated with high intakes of well-done, fired or barbecued meats.”
Andrea Rader, a Komen spokesperson defends the partnership, claiming that KFC will provide their charity with the chance to "reach a lot of people we wouldn't ordinarily reach" with information on breast health. She goes on to suggest the grilled chicken and steamed vegetables as healthy menu options.
John Robbins, author of “Diet for a New American,” writes in The Huffington Post, “Pardon me for being cynical, but I have to ask, if Komen is going to partner with KFC, why not take it a step further and partner with a cigarette company? They could sell pink packages of cigarettes, donating a few cents from each pack while claiming ‘each pack you smoke brings us closer to the day cancer is vanquished forever'.”
On their website, Komen announces “KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure are teaming up to spread educational messaging via a major national campaign which will reach thousands of communites served by nearly 5,000 KFC restaurants.”
Health and cancer experts have been quick to point out the mixed messages inherent in placing a pink ribbon on a bucket of fried chicken. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research there is “convincing evidence that excess body fats ups the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.” Obesity is also connected to shorter survival rates for women who develop cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute’s website, studies “have shown that an increased risk of developing colorectal, pancreatic, and breast cancer is associated with high intakes of well-done, fired or barbecued meats.”
Andrea Rader, a Komen spokesperson defends the partnership, claiming that KFC will provide their charity with the chance to "reach a lot of people we wouldn't ordinarily reach" with information on breast health. She goes on to suggest the grilled chicken and steamed vegetables as healthy menu options.
John Robbins, author of “Diet for a New American,” writes in The Huffington Post, “Pardon me for being cynical, but I have to ask, if Komen is going to partner with KFC, why not take it a step further and partner with a cigarette company? They could sell pink packages of cigarettes, donating a few cents from each pack while claiming ‘each pack you smoke brings us closer to the day cancer is vanquished forever'.”
Top Opinion
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Cold Warrior 2010/05/18 23:23:46+8Of for F***s sakes! Its a bucket of chicken and raising $ for a good cause! (no the Colonel doesn't look great in pink but...)As far as the libtard writing in the huffy post is concerned, they can blow me. Its amazing left wing looney tunes can find anything to bitch about.






















i don't think there ever will be a cancer because the people who make the mediation o keep people with dance alive for a while make LOTS of money imagine what will happen if a cure is found there most likely already is a cure
Hey, but if they sold some fresh, organic fruit at KFC, and donated those earnings, wouldn't that be awesome? Raise awareness on how to eat healthy at the same time- how cool that would be.
Honestly people...a bucket of chicken every now and then is NOT going to make you obese and increase your risk of cancer. And they DO have the healthy menu options for those of you out there who don't have the common sense to know when to pull your snout out of the trough.
Once again let's demonize the evil corporation rather than take some personal responsibility and eat it's product in moderation. I see no mixed message here.
Pink.
The American Cancer Society is a huge scam anyway and the chicken is usually crippled.The last time I had that slop the chicken leg and other bones were broken.If there is a cure the doctors who squeeze all the assets out of the patients they can with slash and burn techniques before they kill them squash it and call it quackery.
Now that hospitals have CFO's they also have forms that allow you to sign your house over to them for your treatment that no one gets cured with.
They will never find a cure because it's not profitable. Dr. Simoncini discovered cancer was a fungus and treated patients with a baking soda IV. In an alkaline PH disease cannot exist,Royal Raymond Rife also had his equipment outlawed also raw food diets such as used by Dr.Larraine Day have had better results ...
The American Cancer Society is a huge scam anyway and the chicken is usually crippled.The last time I had that slop the chicken leg and other bones were broken.If there is a cure the doctors who squeeze all the assets out of the patients they can with slash and burn techniques before they kill them squash it and call it quackery.
Now that hospitals have CFO's they also have forms that allow you to sign your house over to them for your treatment that no one gets cured with.
They will never find a cure because it's not profitable. Dr. Simoncini discovered cancer was a fungus and treated patients with a baking soda IV. In an alkaline PH disease cannot exist,Royal Raymond Rife also had his equipment outlawed also raw food diets such as used by Dr.Larraine Day have had better results than deadly chemo. The American Cancer Society is a total scam from the days of Rockefeller opening the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute.Although his name is hardly known, Frank Howard was for many years a key figure in Standard Oil operations as director of its research and its international agreements. He also was chairman of the research committee at Sloan Kettering Institute during the 1930s; his appointee at Sloan Kettering, Dusty Rhoads, headed the experimentation in the development of chemotherapy. During the Second World War Rhoads headed the Chemical Warfare Service in Washington at U.S. Army Headquarters. It was Frank Howard who had persuaded both Alfred Sloan and Charles Kettering of General Motors in 1939 to give their fortunes to the Cancer Center, which then took on their names.
The Rockefellers have been running cancer scams since William Rockefeller William Rockefeller's vocation as a medicine man greatly facilitated his preferred profession of horse thief. As one who planned to be in the next county by morning, it was a simple matter to tie a handsome stallion to the back of his wagon and head for the open road. It also played a large part in his vocation as a woman-chaser; he was described as being "woman-mad". He not only concluded several bigamous marriages, but he seems to have had uncontrolled passions. On June 28, 1849, he was indicted for raping a hired girl in Cayuga, New York; he later was found to be residing in Oswego, New York and was forced once again to decamp for parts unknown. He had no difficulty in financing his woman-chasing interests from the sale of his miraculous cancer cure and from another product, his "Wonder Working Liniment," which he offered at only two dollars a bottle.
If you are dumb enough to believe that the American Cancer Society is looking for a cure so they can end the gravy train,and eat KFC on top of it you deserve what you get.
Both entities are laughable.It's a great partnership !
It matters where the money goes! It goes to promote the slop burgers which could consist of multiple cows in one burger,petroleum products added to the fryer grease,and the polymers in the shakes.
Haven't you ever see Supersize Me? Google 12 year old McDonalds Hamburger (still looking good !)The fries are timeless after years they look like new !
Charities like this are shameless corporate promotion.Charity is supposed to be discreet.
But after 60 years of Television watching people will believe anything !
People are going to buy the chicken anyway, why not take the .50 Cents a bucket and work toward a cure?
I'm glad there's only 4 in the U.K. Leave it to everyone else to get morbidly obese.
There's a lot of things that can take the life out of you, just be glad you were ever even here to live out here in the middle of space.
And to the top answer idiot; bucket of chicken, pack of cigarettes, 12-pack of beer, 1/5 of liquor, liter of coca-cola, regular morning starbucks whatever, most prescription meds... it's all the same bullshit.
It's been a SCAM from its inception and they suck in millions of gullible and unknowing dupes to do their bidding for them who then send them money that is wasted on 'busy" research projects that go nowhere. I also heard Gary Null do a very lengthy expose of the American Cancer Society on his radio program aired over KPFK radio with Roy Tuckman.
A 100% cure for all forms of cancer was demonstrated in the mid 1930s by Dr Royal Raymond Rife. His work and his reputation were utterly destroyed by established medicine (Rockefellers and the drug cartels) and their lackeys in the guise of one Morris Fishbein of the AMA and indeed the efforts of the Rockefeller's ACS, which helped in no small measure to debunk Rife's incredible work and discoveries.
The average American diagnosed with cancer spend upwards of US$25 000 of their savings attempting to save their lives. Sadly, these people are not getting much for their money.
Spending for the 'American Cancer Society' alone is over US$1 million a day. Only about 16% goes directly into programs for cancer patients, the rest into bureaucratic overhead...
It's been a SCAM from its inception and they suck in millions of gullible and unknowing dupes to do their bidding for them who then send them money that is wasted on 'busy" research projects that go nowhere. I also heard Gary Null do a very lengthy expose of the American Cancer Society on his radio program aired over KPFK radio with Roy Tuckman.
A 100% cure for all forms of cancer was demonstrated in the mid 1930s by Dr Royal Raymond Rife. His work and his reputation were utterly destroyed by established medicine (Rockefellers and the drug cartels) and their lackeys in the guise of one Morris Fishbein of the AMA and indeed the efforts of the Rockefeller's ACS, which helped in no small measure to debunk Rife's incredible work and discoveries.
The average American diagnosed with cancer spend upwards of US$25 000 of their savings attempting to save their lives. Sadly, these people are not getting much for their money.
Spending for the 'American Cancer Society' alone is over US$1 million a day. Only about 16% goes directly into programs for cancer patients, the rest into bureaucratic overhead and expensive drug research.
Anyone who contributes to or helps the ACS in any capacity is simply an uninformed boob who is assisting his executioners to prepare his own coffin.
Does anyone know about the Planned Parenthood merger with this pink breast cancer awareness organization? Is there a connection between their services and breast cancer?