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To: AugustWest who wrote (889)	9/17/2002 10:01:07 AM
From: mph	Respond to of 57110

No doubt. Still, food is not the same thing as tobacco. The fast food suits might have more merit if the argument had to do with chemical additives and illnesses resulting therefrom, rather than simply "I got fat and had high cholesteral cause I didn't know that a Bag Mac was about million calories and bad for me if I ate 3 a day."

To: AugustWest who wrote (889)	9/17/2002 10:22:39 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

I suspect thatwe'll eventually uncover documents by the fast food companies that show they were aware that their fatty foods caused health problems But theyhit all those findings. Or something along those lines. Geez. I guess by extension there ought to be suits against the dairy industry (butter raises cholesterol), the meat industry (all those marbled T-bones are bad for you) and the soft drink industry (all that sugar leads to diabetes). Give me a freaking break. Big tobacky lied, hid documents and deliberately attempted to make an addictive product more addictive. I've heard nothing similar about the fast food or any other food industry. At some point, people need to be responsible for their lives. Either that, or we all get on a diet of gelatinous goo, similar to what Morpheus and Neo were eating on their ship in The Matrix.