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Saturday, May 08, 2004
Legal experts warn that more lawsuits against fast food chains could be on the horizon. Meanwhile, movie goers will be able to see the effects of dieting on fast food on the big screen.
From Yahoo! News - (USA TODAY), "A controversial obesity lawsuit against McDonald's may have been thrown out of court. But it inspired the movie Super Size Me, which opens Friday and promises to raise the volume in the debate over fast food and obesity.
In September, a federal judge in New York rejected a claim by two obese teenage girls that eating McDonald's made them fat. Morgan Spurlock, the movie's director decided to test that conclusion. His film documents a 30-day immersion into McDonald's-only cuisine in which he gained 24 1/2 pounds and his liver accumulated fat so quickly that it turned, in the words of his doctor, into "pt." He has since regained his health.
Spurlock wants his movie to launch a national conversation over fast food and nutrition, not prompt more litigation. But it may be too late. Now that obesity is recognized by the federal government as a looming public health crisis - on its way to surpassing smoking as the nation's No. 1 killer - the battle lines are drawn."
"Although no fast food lawsuits have been filed since the McDonald's case was dismissed, legal experts say they expect suits to be filed this year. The most promising legal avenue is to invoke state consumer protection laws to accuse companies of misleading consumers about calories or nutritional value, or to accuse companies of marketing fast food to children."
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