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Parade magazine recently ran a short piece on Paul McCartney in which the former Beatle said people wanting to remember his wife Linda McCartney should send contributions to Memorial Sloan-Kettering where she was treated for breast cancer before her death. As an astute reader pointed out in the October 4 issue of Parade, however, that McCartney said he was opposed to the use of animals but breast cancer research relies on animal studies.
How does Paul reconcile this ethical dilemma? He told Parade that he is still "totally against experiments on animals," so contributions in Linda's name would only go for spending on human trials.
Earth to Paul: the only way a breast cancer drug gets to the human trial stage is after it has gone through extensive animal testing. McCartney's position seems to be that it is okay to do human trials of breast cancer drugs, but the animal tests that make the human trials possible should be banned.
"Live and Let Die" indeed!