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Are fast food companies just as evil as tobacco companies? Recently, the same lawyers that forced tobacco companies to cough up billions of dollars in legal settlements have started to take on the fast food industry.

The complaint? That fast food companies don't give customers enough information about the health problems that can be caused by eating too much fast food. This article suggests that they just might have a case.

What do you think? Do obese McDonald's patrons have anyone but themselves to blame? Or should they be able to cash in on the misdeeds of fast food companies?

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  • I believe that the customers are truly the one to blame. I mean everyone knows that eating fast food all the time is not healthy, whether the company displays the nutrition facts or not. Most of all fast foods are fried and too much fried food is not good for anyone. When a person decides to eat there, they are held responsible for the consequences. I don't think that the restaurants themselves should be held accountable for it, but I do believe that they should at least post more nutritional facts about the food.
    • I agree with what this person is saying. It's common knowledge that fast food isn't good for you, everyone has heard it. I guess it wouldn't hurt anyone for the restaurants to post more nutritional facts, but at the same time I don't think it's necessary. Everyone knows that when you walk into McDonald's, you're about to eat very greasy, fattening, unhealthy food. Consumers shouldn't NEED a reminder of that every time.
    • I agree with you. I think that people who eat at fast food places know that what they are eating isn't good for them. The restaurants should post their health facts, but 99% of Americans know that eating a salad is better for you then eating a hamburger and fries.
    • I agree with you totally. I mean like you said it is all on the consumer no one is making or telling them to buy the food.
  • I believe that a law suit against fast food companies is absolutely ridiculous. It is a consumer's own decision whether to eat fast food or not. It is common knowledge that fast foods aren't the healthiest foods, because of the grease and things they are cooked in. However, many fast food companies DO give nutrition facts at the counter. Many of them are comparing their foods to other companies, but are providing consumers with information. I believe these people who are filing these suits are just money hungry or like to blame their issues on other people instead of dealing with them themselves. If the fast food makes you fat...don't eat it and work out!!!
    • I completely agree! People do have freewill and common sense. You are right, I have seen nuttrition facts on the counter in most fast food restuarants. These people are money hungry or loooking for a scapegoat.
    • Beside that, what is going to be the point of telling the customers these nutrition facts? Every one knows that eating fast food all the time is not healthy. Well, all the tobacco companies put on their products that cigaretts are very bad for your health, and yet most of people do not care and they still smoke it!
  • The people who don't know how to control their eating are 100 percent to blame for their own fatness. At no point in time has anybody heard that burgers, french fries, and chocolate desserts are good for you... after taking one bite into a Big Mac, you can taste the greasy fat. Any rational person knows that if they do not eat healthy and eat only greasy foods, they will get fat. These lawsuits are absolutely ridiculous.
    • I 100% agree with you on that subject. Everyone has a mind of their own and they should know better than to think that they can eat something that greasy and fatty. You can see the grease on the fries when they serve them to you and you can taste it in the burgers like you said. The companies are not to blame for their bad choice of foods.
  • Most of this crap got started back in McDonald when a old lady spilled a cup of hot coffee on her lap and sued McDs' for servering hot coffee. After that everyone was sueing at the drop of a Canadian dime. As long as it's the large corporation getting screwed I don't care too much.
    • I understand why you don't care about it. Honestly I don't care too much about it either because it has nothing to do with me, but there could possibly be an effect on customers due to these restaurants being sued. They could end up closing down or raising prices or something.
      • I don't see a large multi-billion dollar company like McDonalds going out of business over a few million dollars, but what it does do is set a bad president for further customers to sue. As for the effects on me, I don't eat at fast food joints.
  • I think that the people are to blame for becoming overweight, not the fast food companies. These companies do not force people to eat there. People should know that eating fast food is not healthy. Most of it is fried and processed containing lots of grease and fat. I think this is just another way for people to try to make a buck.
    • I agree the blame is not on the companies but the people. They aren't forced to eat the food, it is just a convienience food that our society has become dependent on for a quick on-the-run meal.
  • I also believe that this is a bunch of bull. This is nothing like the tobacco industry. They did try to hide the fact that nicotine is addicitve, and it was not common knowledge. But for heavens sake, today it is common sense that fast food is unhealthy and makes you fat if eaten out of moderation! How is anyone hiding this? I mean when you order your food you can see from the register the grease your fries are cooked in, and they do usually have nutrtiion facts displayed somewhere nearby. My goodness, ask a 4 year old if fast food is healthy, they can tell you. As someone said before, these people must be money hungry, or looking for someone else to blame besides themselves for their obesity.
    • I totally agree with what you are saying. The tobacco industries did try to hide that nicotine is addictive but I can't see where fast food has hidden anything from their public. I mean, I have never heard them say that the food they sell was actually healty.
    • I agree with what you are saying. The fast food restaurants aren't trying to hide that their food is unhealthy for you. The tobacco industry was trying to hide the fact that nicotine is addictive. People everyday can watch fast food restaurants cook their food unlike the tobacco industries. I mean, how many people go to tobacco factories everyday? It's not like fast food restaurants don't cook the food right in front of you.
  • Personally, I think that someone is just trying to make some money off of fast food chains. I think that it's crazy for someone to think that MacDonald's made them fat. If they want to know who made them fat, they need to go look in the mirror. They made the choice to eat that hamburger and fries.
  • Honestly I think all of this is ridiculous. I mean it is only common sense that fast food is not healty. And its not like anyone forced them to eat there, that was their own personal choice. It seems to me that these people are just trying to find someone to blame for their problems. And if for some odd reason people think they have to eat fast food on a regular basis then they need to learn to exercise.
    • I totally agree with you on that. It is the persons responsiblity to take care of themselves. If they want to eat out at fast food resturants then they should learn to excersice. they should also learn to take their own mistakes instead of blaming them on someone else. People these days just don't know how to fend for thesmelves. They always think someone else is to blame instead of themselves.
  • fast food is not the one to blame for! its people, technology and money. People now don't have time to cook at home. Most of the people nowadays have more than one jobe, trying to get as much money as possible. they do not even have time to wait in a good restaurant to eat their dinner. so wether the fast-food companies told the customers about these nutrition facts or not, customers still will buy their food.
  • The people who eat the food are to blame. The fast food restuarants are not to blame. Everyone knows the consequence for eating fast food. And if you dont then that is your fault. If you eat McDonalds everyday, then you should expect to be obese, and if you dont expect to get fat then that is your own stupidity. People are old enough and mature enough to make their own decisions, and the should held accountable for those decisions. McDonalds and other fast food restaurant should not be accountable, they are not foring these people to eat their food.
    • Unfortunately thanks to loop holes in the system, these people may just in fact get away with the law suit. Everyone, including them, knows well that fast food isnt healthy - they will lie, and claim that they didnt think it was as bad as they thought it was, and get away with it.
    • I believe that kwis has a very strong point of view and is right in everyway. I feel that people who eat to much fast food should be to blame. I agree that you should expect to be obese if you eat food similar to McDonalds everyday. The decision to eat healthy food is up to each individual. If you make the wrond choice its your own fault.
  • It certainly is a frivilous and ridiculous case they are trying to present in my opinion. The only way theyll win is by some sort of technicality of the food nutrition laws where each food product needs to have proper nutritional information (like the side of a coke can or something). Ive also been seeing a lot of fast food restaurants now putting up a big nutritional poster on one of the walls by where you would order, so they can avoid silly law suits like this. The people suing will probably use the money to buy more fast food anyways..
  • I think this is another way people are trying to get money from someone. They think since Big companies have lots of money, they should share the wealth so they sue them. Stupidity in the only thing I see in this lawsuit, similar to the one about the "hot" coffee. Some people are just stupid, end of story. There are enough articles from studies that have show all the bad things that go into fast food. Obviously if you eat it you are to lazy to read about the harm it does to your body. There are only a few people with high motabolism that can eat junk like fast food and not become obese. However, it still harms their body just like every one else. Obviously this is just another stupid law suit that gets too much attention.
    • I agree with you when you say people are trying to get money out of big companies. The nutritional information about these restaurants are put out for the customers to view. The lawsuits that these people are trying to bring about to the companies is ridiculous and they should rethink their motives before they look foolish in courts.
  • I think that a law suit against fast food restaurants is rediculous. It is common sense to know that all that greasy food can't possibly be too healthy. People themselves are to blame for this one. I didn't know that they were supposed to warn us that fast food is unhealthy. People go there because it is simply easier for them, they don't have to cook and because it isn't too good for you of course it is going to be unhealthy for you. I don't think that fast food restaurants are to blame for this at all.
    • I totally agree with this. No one should have to be warned about fast food being unhealthy. A law suit against this would be totally ridiculous!
  • I do not think that fast food places should be charged with not giving customers enough information on the nutrional values of fast food. I think if customers are that concerned about health then they should not eat fast food. Fast food is exactly what it is FASTFOOD!
    • I agree with the fact that fast food is just simply fast food and people should not expect anything more than that. People should just expect that fast food is not going to be healthy.
  • Obviously, a double cheeseburger isn't as healthly as say....carrots and brocolli, it's probably not even healthy at all. The people that are dwelling on suing these fast food chains, mainly McDonalds are wasting their time. If they win, they will probably take their settlement money, turn around and buy more fast food. Why is it that we only hear about McDonalds getting the lawsuits? Just because they have already been subjected to a lawsuit in the past? The over weight people are to blame because of their eating habits. McDonalds or whoever else does not force them to buy the food. How about the ones that go in there and buy a 20piece Chicken McNugget, super gigantic fries and oh yeah, a diet pop...maybe that will be healthy! Honestly, I think these fat people are trying to get some money for their own problems, and it needs to stop. We have more important things to worry about.
  • The idea, that Americans, yes I said Americans, think everything needs to be the way they want it, agrivates teh living crap out of me. They want to eat watch and do what the want without any consequences. I hope the judge(s) presiding over this case dismisses it. But if this does turn out to be a big case I will lose all my trust in the United States legal system. REDICULOUS.
  • I don't think that people have the right to get upset at fast food restaurants. I believe that it is the people's own responsibility to decide what food they should eat. It is not McDonald's fault for making people over weight. People choose to eat the food that they do because they like how it tastes and it is convenient eating. I don't think McDonald's is trying to fool people into thinking that their food is healthy. They never have claimed that their food will help you lose weight or anything of the sort. McDonald's doesn't have a problem with providing consumers with clean quality food, so people should not complain of the food being too fattening.
  • I believe that everybody is responsible for themselves, and that it is so wrong to blame your weight problems on someone else. Most everybody controls what goes in their mouth and has some sense of whether it is bad for you or not.
  • I think that people should try to take care of themselves. They don't need mama to tell them what to do anymore. Yes the resturant should have a listing of all the calories and such but take care of yourself. McDonald can not tell you have much to eat and how much not to eat. If you can't go eat at a fast food resturant because of the calories then turn to the alternative way and cook yourself. People these days just don't know respect anymore and can't take the responsiblity upon themselves.

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