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Fat lawsuit against McDonald's revived - "An appeals court Tuesday revived part of a class-action lawsuit blaming McDonald's for making people fat, reinstating claims pertaining to deceptive advertising. The lawsuit alleges that tens of thousands of children have suffered obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and other health problems after being misled about McDonald's products."
posted by jr to health at 3:17 A.M. EST     (4 Comments)

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You know, if McDonalds secretly put tapeworm eggs into their burgers, they would solve the obesity problem once and for all.

...if a company won't tell you what they put in their food, DON'T EAT IT!
posted by Guest at 04:39 P.M. EST on Wed Jan 26, 2005     #

Being mislead about McDonald’s products

If you eat fast food all the time, it is going to make you fat. Anybody with any common sense knows that. If you still choose to eat fast food all the time, get fat, and get health problems from being fat, I don’t see why you should be able to sue McDonalds.

In a few years the state and federal governments will be trying to sue the fast food industry to recover the health care costs of treating obesity related diseases. The reality is that the person who eats fast food all the time and dies of a heart attack at 55 actually saves the system a lot of money by not collecting social security and Medicare later. Not that economic reality has ever stopped the government from grabbing money.
posted by mike2004 at 09:53 P.M. EST on Wed Jan 26, 2005     #

Just another in the long line of examples of people not wanting to take responsibility for their own actions.

-Dan
posted by photodan at 01:35 A.M. EST on Thu Jan 27, 2005     #

When I was growing up in Toledo in the 1970s through the mid 1980s, fast food was a treat. We loved it. But like any treat, it was a relative rarity. Primarily we ate food prepared at home. We latchkey kids ate a bit poorer, sure, with frozen dinners and the like, but I can't complain overall since my parent knew about nutrition and tried to provide for me.

The bad food effect is not a new problem. As one anecdote, my own parent noted a friend of the family whose kids were fed so poorly in the 1970s that they believed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (on that nasty white Wonderbread, yeech!) was a real dinner. Yes, that's right, PB&J for dinner. So, in that light, today's lazy fascination with fast food is not surprising.

I wonder how successful we would be if we tried to convince the fast food industry to stop calling their products "food", and instead call them "snacks".
posted by Guest at 01:46 P.M. EST on Sat Jan 29, 2005     #

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