Showing posts with label food industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food industry. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Tobacco Lawyers Sue the Food Companies

Great news for the millions of victims of the food industry—the tobacco lawyers are now on your side. All the hapless people who have been eating Cheerios to keep their cholesterol in check in spite of their daily 5,000-calorie diets of super-sized double bacon cheeseburgers, french fries, and chocolate shakes now finally have a friend, a knight in shining armor to save them from themselves.

The NY Times reported on Sunday that since pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars from the tobacco companies, lawyers have been desperately searching for their next payday. So all those companies that claim their products are “natural,” “healthy,” or “organic” better take heed that if one molecule of some ingredient in their products is considered unhealthy by these lawyers or their highly paid experts, they are going to be hauled into court. They will have to defend themselves from some class-action lawsuit that will cost millions of dollars to defend and accomplish absolutely nothing—other than to make a few exceedingly rich lawyers even richer.

Does anyone really believe that a jury of 6, 8, or 12 people (depending on the jurisdiction) is able to decide what is best for the American consumer?