Dave Smith > wrote:

> Vox Humana wrote:
>
> > The issue as I understand it is that Mc Donald's made misleading claims
> > about their food, and the advertising that delivered the claims was
> > targeted to teenagers. They will have to prove this. They have already
> > convinced a court that the case has enough merit to proceed. I don't
> > see a big issue here. It's not like the food industry has never
> > adulterated food or engaged in false advertising or deceptive practices.
> > When does an industry achieve a position where they can't be sued and
> > who decides? Is the general public responsible for ignoring false
> > advertising? Should children know that eating at McDonalds is bad for
> > you? I think it will be an interesting case. Hopefully people won't
> > distort the facts like they always do with the McDonald's litigation
> > resulting from burns from insanely hot coffee.
>
> I would suggest that the issue is the amount of McDonalds food you would
> have to eat to get fat. Nobody gains a few pounds from eating a Big Mac
> and and order of fries. They got fat because they ate too much of the
> stuff. One of the complainants was reported to be 5'6" and 270 lb. That
> is one hell of a lot of burgers and fries. The complaint is that McDonalds
> failed to provide free, easily understood nutritional information about
> its fast food.
>
> In order to make their case, the complainants should be required to
> provide the court with documentation of the food they have been eating for
> the past few years. For all we know, they could have been stuffing
> themselves with soda pop and chocolate bars, and may never have been in
> the golden arches.

Unfortunately, you don't understand the US civil law system which IS THE
MOST RIDICULOUS ON THE PLANET.

Nobody put a gun to these clowns heads and made them eat Big Macs.

A worse case, in Arizona the families of Mexican illegal immigrants who
died of thirst illegally crossing the desert into America sued because
we didn't put water stations in the desert for them when it was 115˚ F