McDonalds embroiled in McLawsuit

[CatWoman]

is that better?


SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A San Francisco area talk show host has filed a lawsuit against McDonald's Corp. accusing the world's largest fast-food restaurant company of failing to switch to healthier lower-fat cooking oil as it had pledged.

McDonald's said it had not yet seen of a copy of the lawsuit, filed on Thursday in federal district court in San Francisco.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of radio talk show host Katherine Fettke by attorney Stephen Joseph, who also has sued to stop Kraft Foods Inc. from selling its popular Oreo cookies in California to children because the cookies contain trans fatty acids.

Trans fatty acids have been linked to increased levels of bad cholesterol and associated with clogged arteries.

The lawsuit filed on Thursday, which is seeking class action status, alleges McDonald's was not fully using a cooking oil with reduced levels of trans fatty acids and has yet to publicly disclose that in an effective manner.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040709/hl_nm/food_mcdonalds_fattyacids_dc

[arcos]

1. interesting, I just had 2 Oreo cookies...

am I going to die? ;)

[Dookus]

2. Hrmm...

a huge corporation promises to do something, then doesn't. Somebody calls them on it. What's not to like?

[Eric J in MN]

3. would you prefer if corporations could lie with impunity? (nt)

nt

[CatWoman]

6. no, sorry

I didn't read all of the story.

I just looked at the headline.

my bad.

I'm just sick of people blaming their poor dietary choices on fast food joints.

If you ask me, McDonalds should be banished from the face of the Earth.

But people who choose to eat their food should acknowledge that that stuff is poison.

[Sterling]

11. I think the whole going after McDs for have fatty crappy food is silly but

If they say they are making theur crappy food in a certian way they damn well better do it.

I like the old crappy fatass McDs. I wish people would stop fucking with my food choices.

[CatWoman]

12. I agree Sterling, I erred in my headline

however, don't you think healthier fast food is a good thing?

[DrWeird]

4. Fine with me.

Frankly, I think the Hindus should have ran McDonald's into the ground for secretly putting beef fat in their french fries.

[theoceansnerves]

7. still trying

it's still mired in the courts. mcdonalds renegged on promises they made with how they would allocate some of the money. what a surprise right?

[DrWeird]

10. Oh, I thought it was settled and done with.

It's like using pig fat and calling it kosher.

[theoceansnerves]

5. i don't find any problems

with that lawsuit unless there's something they're not telling us in the article. but it doesn't seem that way.

[Mad As Hell]

8. It's called false advertising

a form of fraud. *'s FTC won't stop them. This will stop them. Corporations will commit fraud like this in the name of profits because promising healthier food gets people in the door. If they lied, it's fraud. Remember WalMart's Made in America campaign in the 1990's? Sometimes, lawyers are the only thing that keeps corporate America honest and not defrauding (or outright killing) the consumer.

[MikeG]

9. Behind every a-hole lawyer is an a-hole client.

[Gman]

13. It has gotten completely lost in the discourse that

trial lawyers serve a great good. Lawyers are the only folks that have the ability to protect us from the mindless, conscienceless corporations that will literally do anything to satisfy their shareholders. There is no such thing as an ethical corporation. There are corporations that may decide not to do something because of the risk of violating the law, being prosecuted and losing (and that doesn't stop most) or, more significantly, the risk of what they might lose in a lawsuit. If legal decides they can prevail, the corporation will do it. No ethics involved here at all.

Corporations would sell a bag of broken glass to kids as a puzzle if they thought they could get away with it. As for the trans-fatty acids, they are not good for you and cause heart problems. But McDonalds is apparently sure they can get away with it or can at least stall long enough to delay incurring a little extra cost.

Its also no small wonder Bush is attacking lawyers and pushing tort reform so heavily.

[Tina H]

14. Thank goodness for trial lawyers! nt