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Fat Teens Sue McDonald's
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Fat Teens Sue McDonald's
FNC
Saturday, September 21, 2002
NEW YORK - You eat a lot of cheeseburgers at fast-food restaurants and you get fat.
But whose fault is that?
Lawyers for two obese teenagers in New York say McDonald's is to blame, and they're taking Ronald to court.
Kids just can't resist those happy meals, says one adviser on the case.
"When we're suing on behalf of children, it's hard to argue that a 6, or 8 or 10-year-old child has to take full responsibility for their decisions when they're lured into McDonald's by the toys and the playground and happy meals and the birthday parties," said attorney John Banzhaf.
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The lead attorney in the most recent case, who also represents adults in a similar suit, refused to talk to Fox News on camera about the case. Nor would he let Fox News talk to the parents or his teenage plaintiffs.
But what is known is that both of his latest obese plaintiffs are girls. One is 5'9" and weighs 270 pounds, while the other is about 5'3" and 200 pounds.
Each girl is at least 80 pounds overweight, according to government statistics.
They have been eating at McDonald's several times a week for years.
Fox News broke a similar story this summer, when an obese man blamed his fatness and health problems on the food served up at Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
McDonald's says the average person eats there only twice a month and that this lawsuit has no merit.
The burger joint says it handles nutrition responsibly. It puts nutritional information about its products on large, poster-size charts on its store walls and in other display areas.
The charts show, for instance, that a quarter pounder with cheese has 530 calories and 30 grams of fat.
Nevertheless, the lawsuit claims kids and their parents didn't know how fattening the food was.
One restaurant group says that's ridiculous.
"You make choices in the food you want to purchase, and if you make the wrong choices relentlessly and perpetually, you're going to have health consequences," said John Doyle, co-founder of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a coalition of restaurant operators and individuals. "But that is not something that the restaurants are responsible for."
Critics say this class-action lawsuit reminds them of the lawsuit against Big Tobacco, in which lawyers blamed wealthy corporations for the personal choices of others.
Some legal observers are asking what the next target is -- pizza or ice cream?
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63698,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
FNC
Saturday, September 21, 2002
NEW YORK - You eat a lot of cheeseburgers at fast-food restaurants and you get fat.
But whose fault is that?
Lawyers for two obese teenagers in New York say McDonald's is to blame, and they're taking Ronald to court.
Kids just can't resist those happy meals, says one adviser on the case.
"When we're suing on behalf of children, it's hard to argue that a 6, or 8 or 10-year-old child has to take full responsibility for their decisions when they're lured into McDonald's by the toys and the playground and happy meals and the birthday parties," said attorney John Banzhaf.
FNC
The lead attorney in the most recent case, who also represents adults in a similar suit, refused to talk to Fox News on camera about the case. Nor would he let Fox News talk to the parents or his teenage plaintiffs.
But what is known is that both of his latest obese plaintiffs are girls. One is 5'9" and weighs 270 pounds, while the other is about 5'3" and 200 pounds.
Each girl is at least 80 pounds overweight, according to government statistics.
They have been eating at McDonald's several times a week for years.
Fox News broke a similar story this summer, when an obese man blamed his fatness and health problems on the food served up at Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
McDonald's says the average person eats there only twice a month and that this lawsuit has no merit.
The burger joint says it handles nutrition responsibly. It puts nutritional information about its products on large, poster-size charts on its store walls and in other display areas.
The charts show, for instance, that a quarter pounder with cheese has 530 calories and 30 grams of fat.
Nevertheless, the lawsuit claims kids and their parents didn't know how fattening the food was.
One restaurant group says that's ridiculous.
"You make choices in the food you want to purchase, and if you make the wrong choices relentlessly and perpetually, you're going to have health consequences," said John Doyle, co-founder of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a coalition of restaurant operators and individuals. "But that is not something that the restaurants are responsible for."
Critics say this class-action lawsuit reminds them of the lawsuit against Big Tobacco, in which lawyers blamed wealthy corporations for the personal choices of others.
Some legal observers are asking what the next target is -- pizza or ice cream?
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63698,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Now lets gets a bunch of money for your stupidity
Lil' Stinker's Opinion
i think ive finally figured out thats what is making my eyes go all screwy!
another beer, maw!!
barto
the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
If your gonna be stupid you better be tough !!
Often the mind believes it is thinking, when it is only passing from one metaphor to the next.
As a single guy, I tend to buy a lot of packaged meals. I wish they would keep me thin. When I go to buy fast food (I seldom sit down to eat in restaurants), sure I'd like that food to keep me thin. But I don't even know if that's possible. My doctor tells me that since we're both over 50, it's "normal" to be overweight. He said if I were as thin as I'd like to be, I'd be "abnormal."
I grew up in a typical American family, where gatherings were usually around a table packed with homemade goodies. Significantly, none of that homemade stuff kept me skinny after a certain age. So if we don't require everything on supermarket shelves, every ingredient, every oil, to help keep us thin, I don't know why we should single out McDonald's, unless somebody wants to say, well, we've got to START SOMEWHERE. I could see that.
I wish food providers of all kinds would take responsibility for providing food ingredients that would curb and rectify the "fattening of America." But I don't even know if that's scientifically realistic. But it sure would be nice. I told my barber the other day (a female) that I would like to find a woman who knows how to "cook skinny." She said, "Cook skinny?!" like it was a foreign concept. Which of course it is, in the vast majority of households. The typical response will be, "you wouldn't like it -- veggies and rice cakes." But that's all we know how to make NOW. Nobody's given any serious thought to skinny cooking science -- thus, rice cakes are the epitomy of thin cuisine, circa 2002. Sad.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Often the mind believes it is thinking, when it is only passing from one metaphor to the next.
Edited by - DancesWithSheep on 09/22/2002 16:05:50
Edited by - DancesWithSheep on 09/22/2002 17:11:55
Hehe....yah, like the fact that Tin would have to spend what he makes in an entire day to eat there.
Thank god for McD's though. When I was in Hong Kong, by the third week I was SO SICK of eating noodles, I could have screamed.
Ahhhhhhhh.........cheeseburger!
Merc (Who can't eat the same thing day after day......ugh)
NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!
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If we have 8,9 and 10 year olds that are blaming McDonald's, I think we should back up and look at who is taking them there and buying the junk food...HMMMMMMm..suing parents for making their child obese...that may be next...we shall see..
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I agree with you, armed female, about the supermarkets having the right raw foods, up to a point. But I'll go you one better by adding that the processed food manufacturers have a long way to go to move "slimming" up their list of priorities when creating and packaging products. I think the slimming of America could be fast-tracked if manufacturers had to do it, the way car manufacturers had to add 5-mile-an-hour bumpers years ago. They hated it, but eventually we got somewhat more crash-worthy cars. (I've had Toyotas hit HARD, front and rear, and not a scratch or dent on them.)
And I admit I wouldn't know what to eat, other than salad and rice cakes, to shed the pounds either. The only thing that ever worked well for me was fasting or Phen-fen, and it turned out Phen-fen caused heart valve trouble -- dang.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Although they weren't all that common, every day there were always a few customers who waddled in alone, ordered (usually something like a Double Whopper with cheese and a king fry), and tore into that sucker like a wolfpack descending on a lamb.
These people were always obese (some grotesquely so), of universally poor hygene, and always alone. We called them "Double Whopper People". You could usually spot them right away, and the cashier would holler a warning to the guys in back to let them know an especially gigantic order was on the way.
The sheer volume of food they could consume was shocking. I remember one huge fellow (who wanted to sit in a booth, but couldn't fit and settled for a table) who proceeded to order and eat 4 (count em, 4!)Whoppers with extra mayo over the course of an hour. I didnt know whether to laugh or suggest a shrink.
Did you notice, they only chewed each mouthfull three or four times? Seriously!
Bartman
If you don't know your rights, you dont't have any!
Bullseye,
Did you notice, they only chewed each mouthfull three or four times? Seriously!
Hell dok, I wouldnta' been surprised if they'd used their fist to pack 'em in 2 at a time.
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People need to take responsibility for their actions...if you don't do groceries, and you settle for fast food every day...your going to gain weight...its nobody's fault but your own.
You can prepare meals on Sunday for the rest of the week and keep them in the freezer...but most people don't do that and blame their weight problems on someone else.
Stores are full of stuff that won't make you fat...you just have to pick it up off the shelf and put it in your shopping cart. by the same token though, if you eat enough of that non fat stuff...you might as well just go to Burger King. Self control is the key...both in what you eat, and how much of it you eat.
you can guess what this is leading too.... you cannot blame McDonalds or the supermarkets for you getting fat... They have told everyone what was in the food for years.. same as all processed food.. all the ingredients are listed..but there is something else that is keeping everyone fat....and that is
Total lack of exercise... People are basically lazy....they wont move it they dont have too...
Example... remote control... why get up and walk 5 feet to change a channel? Elevators to go one floor up instead of walking... parking in the spot closest to the store so you dont have to walk...
What it all boils down too is responsibility for your own actions... If you want to eat the fattening food and not exercise.. sure you will get fat... but look around.. there are thin people eating everyday at McDonalds too.. their secret?... they know when to say NO...and they exercise...
One thing that totally floored me in the hospital was the number of overweight nurses...and I dont mean 10 or 20 pounds overweight... I mean grossly overweight...and if you watch them you soon find out their lifestyle...take the elevator to go up one floor... a cart to take them from the front door to the car..(total of maybe 200 feet)
and at coffee breaks what do they have?... one nurse had 3 donuts, a chocolate bar, and a soda... Did the store where she bought the donuts make her fat?... NOPE... eating 3 of them at a time does..and whose fault is that?.. Her own...
Lil' Stinker's Opinion