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To: LLCF who wrote (191644)	9/12/2002 11:16:29 AM
From: reaper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

no LOL, that is actually happening already. plantiffs bar is after MCD and other fast food chains, using a legal theory sort-of based on the cigarette manufacturers -- i.e. you guys KNEW this stuff was terrible for people's health yet you served it anyway. Can we sue our own fat asses off? Flush from their victory against Big Tobacco, activists are now gunning for the purveyors of junk food. salon.com By Megan McArdle May 24, 2002 [excerpt] But we may be seeing the beginnings of that shift in two recent books: "Fast Food Nation," by Eric Schlosser, and "Food Politics" by Marion Nestle. Both have advanced the argument that the way food companies manufacture and market their products makes them bear serious responsibility for our current crisis. And now George Washington University Law Professor John Banzhaf, a veteran of the tobacco battles, has publicly declared that he thinks it possible to sue companies like McDonald's for misleading advertising, for failure to warn about the health dangers of their products and, if public opinion swings his way, for, well, making us fat. Cheers