Trial lawyers and a consumer health group are teaming up to go after America's ice cream, sending out legal notices to six major chains this week as the group released a study criticizing ice cream's nutritional value.
They sent letters to Baskin-Robbins Inc., Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc., Cold Stone Creamery, the Haagen-Dazs Shoppes Inc., TCBY and Friendly Ice Cream Corp., telling the chains to add healthier alternatives and put nutritional facts on their store menu boards or face potential litigation.
Leave the ice cream industry alone. I don't care how much caloric fat is in ice cream. I love ice cream. Kill all the lawyers but leave ice cream alone.
Wow - guess this explains why I can't lose weight. Eating ice cream for every meal, every day. . .I thought it was GOOD for me. (Sarcasm Off)
Good grief - what is wrong with people. Not one person is made to take responsibility for their actions any longer. I make my kids take responsibility at home but in the outside world things are different and they can't understand.
Shakespeare was right.
I'm confident that those who cared already knew that ice cream is high in calories and fat.
For those who can't figure it out by themselves, then let them eat icecream by the quart...it'll cull the herd and we'll be left with some common sense genes.
Here's the thread already going on this one:
Lawyers scream about ice cream
Washington Times ^ | 07/25/03 | Marguerite Higgins
Posted on 07/25/2003 1:05 PM EDT by bedolido
Trial lawyers and a consumer health group are teaming up to go after America's ice cream, sending out legal notices to six major chains this week as the group released a study criticizing ice cream's nutritional value.
They sent letters to Baskin-Robbins Inc., Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc., Cold Stone Creamery, the Haagen-Dazs Shoppes Inc., TCBY and Friendly Ice Cream Corp., telling the chains to add healthier alternatives and put nutritional facts on their store menu boards or face potential litigation.
"Your failure to disclose such obviously material information as unusually large calorie and saturated-fat loads may violate state consumer-protection laws and/or your common-law duty to disclose material facts, and may invite lawsuits from concerned consumers, legal-action organizations, or even state officials," read one letter addressed to Haagen-Dazs President David Keil.
The letter was signed by George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf III, a leader in the obesity-lawsuit movement, and Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
It's the third type of notice Mr. Banzhaf has sent in the last month since organizing a conference on obesity lawsuits.
The warning highlights a report released Wednesday — National Ice Cream Day — by the CSPI, a Washington nonprofit, health-advocacy group that has been criticizing a range of snacks and fatty foods for the last 30 years.
The center, which has reported health problems with pizza, movie theater popcorn and Chinese food, among others, in the past, said a number of sundaes, waffle cones and milkshakes often have more than a entire day's worth of fat and calories in one serving.
"We know consumers don't assume that ice cream is a diet food, but most probably aren't aware how much stuff is in one portion," Mr. Banzhaf said.
For example, a Haagen-Dazs Mint-Chip Dazzler has 1,270 calories and 38 grams of saturated fat, about the same as eating a steak, salad and baked potato, the report said.
But ice cream lovers and manufacturers in the $20 billion industry argue the dairy food is an "indulgence" that consumers understand is naturally high in fat.
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I saw similar posts about this. However, this one gets the lawyers involved.
1 posted on 07/25/2003 1:05 PM EDT by bedolido
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All those lawyers should be rounded up and shot in the street.
This litigation overkill has to stop.
2 posted on 07/25/2003 1:07 PM EDT by Bikers4Bush
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I am surprised the trial lawyers would go after Ben & Jerry, as both parties concerned are huge liberal contributors.
Besides, the Ben & Jerry company is from the heart of Deans support sector -the civil unionists in vermont (Where I'll be in about 8 hours)
3 posted on 07/25/2003 1:10 PM EDT by ctlpdad (Please don't let my post be the last on the thread!)
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"They sent letters to Baskin-Robbins Inc., Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc., Cold Stone Creamery, the Haagen-Dazs Shoppes Inc., TCBY and Friendly Ice Cream Corp., telling the chains to add healthier alternatives and put nutritional facts on their store menu boards or face potential litigation."
I'd love these providers of joy in the form of ice cream to get together and write back. "Dear Trial Lawyers: We are happy to provide other alternatives and post nutiritional facts, if you are willing to foot the bill for same. Otherwise, we will display pictures of you taking your family to our stores and eating ice cream.
4 posted on 07/25/2003 1:11 PM EDT by anniegetyourgun
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"This litigation overkill has to stop."
First step: Stop electing lawyers to Congress and state legeslatures. They protect their own.
5 posted on 07/25/2003 1:13 PM EDT by AngryJawa
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My late-great friend and mother-in-law used to complain about the lawyers making laws for lawyers (in congress). She was an original member of the John Birch Society... which probably only the boomers will remember the JBS.
6 posted on 07/25/2003 1:16 PM EDT by bedolido (please let my post be on an even number... small even/odd phobia here)
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This is too silly for words. You don't go to Baskin Robbins seeking boiled spinach. Heck I don't go to BR for nothing.
7 posted on 07/25/2003 1:18 PM EDT by Flurry (!!!!!!! sdrawkcab si enilgat ym ,em pleh esaelP)
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I knew there was a reason I just buy Breyer's at the store.
8 posted on 07/25/2003 1:20 PM EDT by Desdemona
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99.9% of all lawyers give the rest a bad name.
9 posted on 07/25/2003 1:25 PM EDT by Big Mack
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This is too silly for words. You don't go to Baskin Robbins seeking boiled spinach. Heck I don't go to BR for nothing.
A new ice cream shop opened in my neighborhood. A Madison Wisc. company. It's called Babes.
They have a large sign in there that says;
Don't look up here for nutrition information because all our ice cream is made of huge amounts of sugar and fat. It makes it taste good. If you want to be healthy, go eat carrots"
10 posted on 07/25/2003 1:25 PM EDT by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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Haagen Daz Vanilla Swiss Almond... the best ice cream ever
11 posted on 07/25/2003 1:27 PM EDT by bedolido (please let my post be on an even number... small even/odd phobia here)
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If there is a "common law duty to disclose material facts" then all lawyer's cars should have placards front and rear that state:
WARNING! IDIOT ONBOARD
12 posted on 07/25/2003 1:27 PM EDT by Old Professer
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That is great. These scum buckets border on extortion.
13 posted on 07/25/2003 1:28 PM EDT by Flurry (!!!!!!! sdrawkcab si enilgat ym ,em pleh esaelP)
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Maybe one day soon a group of bright attorneys will come to the conclusion that LAWYERS are one of the most corrosive, vile, greedy, and unhealthy groups ever to populate God's green earth.
Maybe they will sue themselves out of existence for trillions of simoleans, and we will live happily ever after.
Disclaimer: Yes, I know there are good, honest lawyers.
Not ALL trial lawyers support these ridiculous lawsuits. But their association should distance itself from these nuts by denouncing these bogus new-age claims.
Years ago on Crossfire, Robert Novak had one of these food nazis on the panel who was whining and sniffing about how awful the American diet was and who wished that everyone ate foods that this maroon had decided was good for us. This guy had a wrinkled face and white curly hair. Novak said to the guy (I'm paraphrasing him), "You look like you're in your fifties or so, how old are you." The whiney food nazi said he was in his early 30s. Novak started laughing and said something to the effect of "if people eat your diet, they'll wind up looking like you?" It was classic. Too bad these busy-bodies don't get a job and stock shelves or make things instead of hanging around our kitchen. These are the same jerks who want the government out of our bedrooms, but don't mind them in our kitchens. Unnnnnnnnnnbelievable!
Mark my words. Next it will be chocolate! Then, I shall take up arms against greedy, liberal trial lawyers and let the chips (chocolate chips please) fall where they may!
Prairie
Now, now. The problem with lawyer jokes is that lawyers don't think they're funny, and the rest of us don't think they're jokes. At some point people are going to say "enough", and that will be a bad day for lawyers.
Trial Lawyers: "No American is safe as long as freedom and liberty still exist anywhere."