And next on the hit parade: ice cream.
Trial lawyers and a consumer health group are teaming up to go after America’s ice cream, sending out legal notices to six major chains this week as the group released a study criticizing ice cream’s nutritional value.
They sent letters to Baskin-Robbins Inc., Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings Inc., Cold Stone Creamery, the Haagen-Dazs Shoppes Inc., TCBY and Friendly Ice Cream Corp., telling the chains to add healthier alternatives and put nutritional facts on their store menu boards or face potential litigation.
“Your failure to disclose such obviously material information as unusually large calorie and saturated-fat loads may violate state consumer-protection laws and/or your common-law duty to disclose material facts, and may invite lawsuits from concerned consumers, legal-action organizations, or even state officials,” read one letter addressed to Haagen-Dazs President David Keil.
News flash: Ice cream, particularly premium ice cream, is full of milk fat. It tastes really good — in fact, the more fat it has, the better it tastes, in general — but it’s not healthy for you. If you think it is healthy for you, you are wrong. If you are interested in finding out how unhealthy for you it is, look it up.
There, now that we have that out of the way, can I discuss a law suit against litigious lawyers groups and busy-body health advocates? Seems that they push my blood pressure up to dangerous levels …
Isn’t dairy on the food pyramid? No, I refuse to believe that the fine folks at Cold Stone wouldn’t lie to me.
Do you remember when lawsuits began against gun manufacturers? One of the warnings from the manufacturers was lawsuits being drawn against other industries (fast food and automotives were two that come to mind). It makes me wonder when and where such silly litigation will stop.
Actually, I remember warnings at the time about tobacco suits. Alcohol has managed to duck the gun by posting big warning signs of their own. But, yeah, the willingness of the societal nannies to ally with they-who-stand-to-profit-in-litigation seems to have no lower bounds.
Ironically, we ended up going to Cold Stone this afternoon. Margie hadn’t read the article yet, of course, so she can be forgiven. I’m just self-destructively evil (and evilly inflicted it on Katherine, too! Bwah-ha-ha!).