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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (25502)	4/27/2012 3:35:29 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I recall that and also that this thread was never 100% on topic. I would sooner place my faith and trust in Nutella or any sandwich spread than something as deceitful as a politician. They`re all the same and none of them offer a better way. Nutella must pay parents who thought chocolate spread was a healthy choice Tralee Pearce Globe and Mail Blog Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2012 8:47PM EDT Do you remember the first time you sampled Nutella as a breakfast food? Maybe smeared on a French baguette? You probably felt like you were getting away with something with every chocolate-hazelnut bite. Well, it turns out not everyone knows that the chocolately treat is basically a candy bar in a creamy form. More related to this story Nutella faces lawsuit over ‘healthy’ claims Grilled Nutella and banana bread sandwiches San Francisco toy ban takes the ‘happy’ out of Happy Meals Video Grilled Nutella and banana bread A California class-action lawsuit that slammed the makers of Nutella for ads suggesting the spread was a healthy food was settled this week in favour of consumers. About $2.5-million (U.S.) will now be divided among folks who file a claim and join the suit, according The Consumerist. But some observers have had it with what they see as faux-naïveté on the part of people such as the mom who filed the suit. Over at The Stir, blogger Julie Ryan Evans says it’s a company’s job to try and sell us their products. “I'm sick of parents blaming everyone from McDonald's and their Happy Meal toys to cereal companies and their jovial cartoon characters for trying to make their kids fat and unhealthy, when it's our job first and foremost to determine what foods they eat and don't. It's a little thing called personal responsibility,” she writes. “So congratulations on the lawsuit, but I find it ridiculous, and it's frankly insulting to consumers and mothers who DO read labels.” It’s not like people haven’t been pointing out that Nutella is basically candy. Blogger Annie Urban even undertook a nutritional comparison of Nutella and cheap chocolate frosting, finding that the frosting had fewer calories, less fat and more iron, of all things. If this is all news to you, scores of food bloggers and nutritionists have been busy concocting various homemade versions of the yummy spread, using hazelnuts and cocoa. Is it hard to figure out which foods are good choices for kids? Should companies have to pay up for making unhealthy products theglobeandmail.com

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (25502)	4/27/2012 9:54:23 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 69300

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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (25502)	4/27/2012 3:48:15 PM
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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (25502)	4/27/2012 7:00:36 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

This is really nuts... Like smokers suing smoke companies when they get sick or suing your mother for bad genes or whining and complaining the government does not do enough for their lazy ass. Nutella sets aside $3 mn for US class action By Robert MacPherson (AFP)–1 hour ago WASHINGTON — The maker of Nutella is setting aside $3.05 million to resolve a sticky class action lawsuit initiated by a young California mother who disputed the hazelnut breakfast spread's wholesome image. Notices of class action settlements declared that Ferrero USA, Inc. -- a subsidiary of Italian confectioner Ferrero Group -- would pay $4 for every jar of Nutella bought in California since August 2009, or bought anywhere else in the United States since January 2008. In addition, Ferrero USA agreed to "modify certain marketing statements about Nutella" and to give more prominence to nutritional information on Nutella labels, said the notices posted on nutellaclassactionsettlement.com. Consumers have until July 5 to make their claims, to a maximum of $20 per claimant. That's four days before US District Court judges in California and New Jersey are scheduled to give final approval to the settlements. "Ferrero USA continues to stand by its product and its commitment to quality and customer satisfaction," a Ferrero spokesperson told AFP in a statement Friday. "We believe that it is in the best interest of the company to resolve these matters, and have reached an agreement with the parties involved." Athena Hohenberg, the mother of a preschooler in San Diego, California, launched the class action lawsuit early last year, alleging that Ferrero has pitched Nutella as something "healthier than it actually is." She was "shocked to learn that Nutella was in fact, not 'healthy, nutritious' food, but instead was the next best thing to a candy bar, and that Nutella contains dangerous level of saturated fat," her lawsuit said. Ferrero -- which markets Nutella worldwide as a tasty breakfast spread, and lists sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts, cocoa and skim milk as its main ingredients -- denied the allegations. Nutella's US website ( www.nutellausa.com) recommends the chocolatey dark spread, with 200 calories per serving, as a way "to turn a balanced breakfast into a tasty one" when combined with whole grain bread or a bagel. Hohenberg, a rental property manager, declined requests for comment. Lawyers on both sides of the case were also unavailable. Consumers can file claims for Nutella purchased anywhere in the United States from January 1, 2008 to February 3 this year, with the exception of California, where the time frame is August 1, 2009 through January 23 this year. It was unclear why there were separate settlements for California and the other 49 states. In the Washington capital area, a 13-ounce (368-gram) jar of Nutella typically retails for $3.99. In financial terms, settling the Nutella lawsuit was peanuts for Ferrero. On its website, it said it made pre-tax earnings of 856 million euros ($1.13 billion) on sales of 7.2 billion euros ($9.5 billion) in its most recent accounting year. Sold in more than 100 countries, Nutella was invented in 1944 by Pietro Ferrero in a pastry shop in Alba, northern Italy. He died in 1949, but the company, which also makes Ferrero Rocher chocolates and Tic Tac candies, stayed in family hands. Hohenberg's lawsuit drew scorn from some quarters when it was filed, including the LA Weekly newspaper which advised "litigious California mothers" to act responsibly and read food labels more closely. "Try making your own snacks for your kids," it said. "If you normally feed them good food, a jar of Nutella now and then isn't going to kill anyone. And it's damn good on homemade buckwheat crepes." Copyright © 2012 AFP. All rights reserved. More » google.com