Lawyers See Fat Payoffs in Junk Food Lawsuits

Put down that pizza! Toss out that cookie dough! And banish those burgers and root beers.

That is, unless you want to join the millions of Americans who are potential plaintiffs in an increasingly less hypothetical lawsuit that could change the way the U.S. eats.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,43735,00.html

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hm...blame is easy....we're on a roll, why not sue car companies when people get killed in car accidents, or sue credit card companies when people become suicidal because they can't pay bills anymore, or sue schools when kids get so stressed and bullied at school that they go a killing spree, etc. ...just observing that the world is strange.

 

Not so much the world being strange as America being strange ??

 

Not just America anymore, pal.

I heard a couple of weeks ago that in China, McDonald's had a promotion with dolls from the "Peanuts" comic strip. It was wildly popular and, as a result, many stores ran out of that weeks doll fairly quickly. In the last week, and for the last doll, there were lines stretching for blocks at local McDonald's. When the stores ran out, people began to riot. Breaking the store-front windows and even torching one of the stores. Now, a family is sueing McDonald's for running out because they claim there son couldn't focus on his studies. The son, allegedly, was too distracted by the dolls and his studies went down the tubes. The father is sueing for lost wages of the son that he hasn't even earned yet!!

Don't be so quick with the "America is strange" stuff.

Mark

 

Two or three years ago a very drunk man in Alabama had a single car (truck) crash. Not only was he drunk, he wasn't belted in either. He was thrown from his truck and paralyzed. Very sad. What was even worse to me was that he sued Ford for big bucks and won because he claimed that the door or hatch or something shouldn't have come open in the roll-over(s).

I'm sorry, but if you're drunk as hell, not wearing a seatbelt and fall out of a vehicle when you flip it, it's not the manufacturers fault!

 

Strange times we live in.

 

Raise the cost of a hotdog. Paaahhhh-leeeeaaaseeee.

Are they going to raise the cost of flour too so I can't make biscuits and gravy. Raise the cost of sugar so I can't make Kool-aid. What about the naturally occuring fat in beef, no more ribeyes I guess.

It's not the food, it's the amount. It's not a hotdog at the picnic that's the problem, it's the two hotdogs, one hambuger and chips you eat at the picnic that's the problem. If you eat 4000 calories but only burn off 2000 guess what? You're going to get fat.

The government and nutritionists are to blame as much as anybody. Eat less fat they tell us, well now we are eating so many carbs that we have become more obese than ever. When you remove fat you remove flavor so what did they do, added more sugar. Well guess what simple sugars do if you don't burn them off? They get stored as fat and after a lifetime of eating this way you eventually become obese and a type 2 diabetic to boot. <sorry, ranting now, I'll stop/>

 

Next you'll see all the diet and supplemental diet companies suing the lawyers and the people involved on this law suit for taking away their right to earn a living.....shrinking public = shrinking of buying market = less profit.

 

I just had 4 slices of bagels with cream cheese....checked the back and amount/servings for total fat is 10 grams...not bad, I think I'll live.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mYuuki
[B]hm...blame is easy....we're on a roll, why not sue car companies when people get killed in car accidents, or sue credit card companies when people become suicidal because they can't pay bills anymore, or sue schools when kids get so stressed and bullied at school that they go a killing spree, etc.