Damn, I was really hoping the legal barrage against fast food was an aberration, but evidently there are plenty of unscrupulous lawyers ready to rake in the Big Bucks by pursuing such a course. Take, for example, this suit, a class action, which claims that McDonald’s causes all sorts of ill health in kids, “diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity.”
In federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday, a lawyer alleged that the fast-food chain has created a national epidemic of obese children. Samuel Hirsch argued that the high fat, sugar and cholesterol content of McDonald’s food is “a very insipid, toxic kind of thing” when ingested regularly by young kids.
Well, duh. And as soon as someone discovers that McD’s employees are snatching kids off the street and force-feeding them French Fries, I’ll be more than happy to see the rat bastards pay through the nose.
The two cases of unutterable evil that are cited, though?
The plaintiffs include a Bronx teen who ate every meal at McDonald’s for three years while living in a homeless shelter.
A shame that the teen ate was able to find attractive, affordable food for three years, rather than eating the healthy grass and gravel he would have consumed had McDonalds not been there.
Another is a 13-year-old boy from Staten Island who says he ate at McDonald’s food three to four times a week and is now 5-foot-4 and 278 pounds.
Um, can you say … glandular problem? Because unless he was eating six Big Macs at every meal, I really don’t believe that eating “McDonald’s food three to four times a week” will cause that sort of ballooning.
The plaintiffs, of course, never state what they want McDonald’s to do, of course (besides pay them outrageous sums of money). Sell McBeanCurd sandwiches and French Baked-Soy?
Greedy jerks …
I heard that this morning and channelled my inner Anne, and then decided to wait to see if she’d blog it. You beat her to it.
Yeah, the fact that the poor aren’t apt to get any kind of health care advice, much less good advice, and the fact that 1.99 for a fair meal is practically subsidized pricing (and is, since I’ll bet the other other items sold make up the costs…)
So, then the kids ‘supersize’ everything. One luxury in their life, the luxurious way that fat feels, the silky taste of it…
it’s like an addiction.
I’ve decided to sue Marvel Comics. wink, wink For 20 years, I’ve been encouraging spiders to bite me in the hopes of gaining super powers. 748 bites, and nothing but itchy, bumpy skin!
Anyone care to join me in a class-action suit?
Countersue the parents for negligence and reckless endangerment. They should have done better to regulate the intake of their children’s food.