What's that? You like your greasy cheeseburgers and french fries? Gasp! Don't you know you are contributing to the ongoing trend of obesity in America? And don't you realize that you are responsible for the exploding costs in health care? What kind of person are you, anyway? You should be punished!
Or so say the liberal, wacko extremists that want to find another way to place restrictions on your Constitutional freedoms. Fortunately, they have lost the most recent battle.
This story just off the new wire...
Judge Throws Out Obesity Suit Against McDonalds NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday threw out a revised lawsuit against McDonald's Corp . that accused the fast food restaurant of using misleading advertising to lure children into eating unhealthy foods that make them fat.
Don't think this is over, and don't think they aren't looking to demonize those who would make the choice to eat whatever they want. They did it with cigarettes. They are attempting to do it with those who would choose to drive SUVs, and they are doing it with so-called "fatty food".
I say, go and eat whatever the heck you want. It is YOUR body and YOUR life. And if YOU. end up in the hospital with heart disease because of YOUR choices, it is YOUR problem. God bless America!
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September 5, 2003 07:15 PM
Joel,
I agree with you on the legal aspects that we shouldn't be able to sue McDoanld's. (The tobacco companies are a different matter; they lied, including under oath to Congress, to the effect that nicotine isn't addictive.) But your last paragraph isn't supported by Holy Scriptures. That's simply selfish individualism.
Joel T.
September 7, 2003 09:59 PM
I jokingly discussed this article with a colleague, commenting on how Mickey Dee's would be my retirement fund if this decision had gone the other way. I noticed over the next few days, his fast food intake seemed to multiply...
September 8, 2003 05:38 PM
I agree that we shouldn't be suing McDonald's but, as another poster said, the cigarette companies are a different matter. Long story short, they lied...McDonald's didn't (as far as I know).
September 11, 2003 10:21 AM
I agree people should have the right to choose for themselves. And that people should also not be able to sue companys like micky dees since it was that persons choice to pull into micky dees and order a big mack. I also agree that the tobacco industry is a different story. They not only lied about the addictive effect of nicotine but they have to this day not had to publish the actual contents of what goes into the cigarettes even though those contents pose a health risk. If you have every watched one of those commercials on TV by the TRUTH network you'll know what I mean. Now why is it that every other consumable product in the U.S. has to have a complete listing of what they put into that product including percentages but tobacco companys dont?? I dont get that.
October 21, 2003 03:50 PM
I think this the stupidist law sut I've EVER heard of. Today who's CHOICE is to eat fatty food from not just Mc'Donalds but from any fast food place it is YOUR choice what eat.
April 27, 2004 11:43 PM
i think instead of passing a fat tax i think they should have a place were people can go and excercise loose weight they cant tell people what to eat i bet they wouldnt tell god what to eat so let people do as what makes them happy some cant help it they cant affords toexercisethey go to resturants to getawaybecause they are depressed or abuse it not the resurant it whants makes them fell happy not depressed that why people eat to make them happy
August 4, 2009 11:41 AM
I don't think a fat tax is very practical - there are several things wrong with Pigouvian taxes in general. They are hard to calculate because it is impossible to determine the exact amount of externality caused, in this case by obesity, and they affect different people in different ways! Here is an article about why a fat tax wouldn't work: http://www.mindreign.com/en/mindshare/Global-Economics/Fat-Tax/sl35291137bp387cpp10pn1.html