Oct 20, 2005

A little Discussion

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Now, I fully believe that people ought to know that if you eat a lot of McDonalds, you are going to get fat, just like the supporters for the bill said. Makes sense.

However, the case was about childhood obesity. Shall the government now take the stance that the people should know that smoking and drinking is bad for you and thus take away age limits on these vices? They're just the same, bad for your health and possibly addictive (those chicken selects are delicious).

And one more thing, doesn't Congress have anything better to do with it's time?
SO SAID The Scarlet Pimpernel at 9:25 AM

4 comments:

driznastic said...

i think its pretty obvious this has been put into place to protect corporate america in general, which should come as no suprise living under one of the most corporate-lap-dog of an administration in US political history ... you could also go the conspiracy route and say that this bill was introduced first as an "obvious" ... as in, obviously fast-food causes obesity, so we wont let people sue on the grounds of that ... however, now there is a precedent set that if somethin is seemingly obvious that it is then caveat emptor, or some bullshit ... but that in itself is ridiculous as anyone who has been to a mcdonalds (or seen supersize me) knows that the golden arches dont exactly volunteer information about their products ... this bill eleviates yet another layer "corporate responsibility" from corporate america ... so now we have this nice lil precedent in place that will protect people like mcdonalds, but also those that own and operate more obviously dangerous enterprises ...

either that or ronald mcdonald sucks really good dick ...

10/20/05, 10:31 AM
The Scarlet Pimpernel said...

mmmm . . . I could go for a super-sized BJ right now . . . hell, I'd take a BJ happy meal . . . wait, that doesn't sound right

10/20/05, 12:09 PM
Howard said...

The hunt for deep pockets for class action suits by greedy lawyers goes on, and on, and on..consumers beware, you will pay for it all in higher prices and the lawyers will get richer and richer and richer..

10/21/05, 10:56 AM
driznastic said...

... um ... or corporations can take responsibily for harm they knowingly cause to consumers ... and not pay-off the government to enact laws to protect them from any kind of retribution for damage ...

10/21/05, 11:30 AM

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