Breast Cancer charity partners with maybe cancer-causing but totally finger-lickin’ good KFC

Susan G. Komen for the Cure drafted KFC to sell “specially designed pink buckets of grilled and Original Recipe chicken,” reports The Wall Street Journal . The breast cancer charity gets 50 centers for every sale; its goal is to raise $8 million. Here’s the rub: Several health blogs are bawking at the partnership, because original recipe chicken is fattening and there is “convincing evidence” that excess body fat increases the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, according …

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