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August 09, 2002

More on fast food lawsuits

When sharks circle, they smell for blood in the water. Battle Of The Widening Bulge.

The same lawyers who took on Big Tobacco met this summer in Washington to explore whether similar tactics can be used against the food industry.

"The lawyers smell the blood in the water," says John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University. "It seems to be an issue at the moment.

"Maybe it's a movement."

Banzhaf, a brazen crusader against the cigarette, says "don't laugh," because that's what the tobacco industry did 20 years ago.

I will not laugh at these lawyers, but I hope that they cannot dupe jurists with their sophistry. Food is not addictive like nicotine. It is a habit - and we can break habits. My eating habits have changed as a result of setting goals. We can change our preferences. Too many lawyers lead to looking for issues. Why does everything end up in court? Is that what the founding fathers wanted?

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Comments:

"Why does everything end up in court?"

Money, desire to displace responsibility, money, and did I remember to mention money?

From a different context but applicable -

"A man who doesn't get an education might steal from a boxcar. A man who goes to college and becomes a lawyer can steal the railroad." -Theodore Roosevelt

Posted by: John Anderson on August 10, 2002 11:04 AM


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