Doctor, consumer group sue KFC

Mercury News ^ | June 13, 2006 | BRETT BARROUQUERE

[FairOpinion]

A doctor and a consumer group have sued KFC in an effort to stop the chicken chain from cooking with high-fat partially hydrogenated oil.

Dr. Arthur Hoyte, a retired physician from Rockville, Md., and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, want a judge to order Kentucky Fried Chicken to use other types of cooking oils or make sure customers know about trans fat content immediately before they make a purchase.

KFC spokeswoman Laurie Schalow called the lawsuit frivolous and said the company will fight it in court. Schalow said KFC is looking at using other types of oil for cooking, but it is committed to maintaining "KFC's unique taste and flavor."

KFC provides nutrition and fat information to consumers online and in restaurants, Schalow said.

"We have for a very long time," she said.

Michael Jacobsen, the executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said Louisville-based KFC parent company Yum Brands Inc. knows that other, healthier cooking products are available.

"KFC knows this, yet it recklessly puts its customers at risk of a Kentucky Fried Coronary," Jacobsen said.

[Polybius]

.....it is committed to maintaining "KFC's unique taste and flavor."

Is it just me or did KFC original taste different in the 1960's?

The KFC I remember as a kid was not as greasy and soggy as the KFC is today........Or it could just be faulty memory.

[Jameison]

"Because the Colonel puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly!"

Dang!
I shoulda figured that one out.
No surprise I love them yummy fired chickens so much. :)

[infidel29]

Dear Dr. jack-ass, if they wanted to fry their chicken in Quaker State it'd still be their business and your choice not to go there.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Here they come...walking down the street...

Hey hey it's the Food Police....

[MikefromOhio]

Colonel is great :)

I just KNEW it would be the Center for Science in the Public Interest or whatever their name is.

I just knew it.

[Judith Anne]

Popeyes is my bar-none favorite. And I agree--!

[Arthalion]

They are already doing that.

Eh, not really. They have the information buried in fine print in information sheets that they keep under the counter, and buried on their website (this info is NOT included in their nutrition guide...it's buried in the ingredients statement).

Let's make one thing clear: Partially hydrogenated oil is a poison. These are man-made chemicals that your body cannot digest, and that build up in your bloodstream until they eventually kill you. They provide no taste benefit, no nutritional value, and offer only one advantage...the same chemical properties that allow them to build up in your arteries also allow them to last a long time in a bottle or box without spoiling.

I personally don't care if people want to eat the stuff, and if they want to sacrifice their arteries to KFC that's nobodies business but theirs. My opinion is simply that if they're going to sell you something that we know, beyond ANY doubt, will eventually cause coronary heart disease, they should at least have to list it on the menu so people know what they're buying without having to ask for a special guide. Seriously, does anyone read those things?

BTW, I fry my chicken in corn oil. It tastes great, and has the added advantage that it won't kill me.

[bobhoskins]

Dr. Arthur Hoyte, a retired physician from Rockville, Md., and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, want a judge to order Kentucky Fried Chicken to use other types of cooking oils or make sure customers know about trans fat content immediately before they make a purchase.

I want a judge to order Arthur Hoyt to wear pink bunny slippers in public every other day. I also want a judge to ordr Salam Hayek to visit me on my birthday. And maybe a judge could make the local pizza place lower their prices.

(Really, are their any laws being broken here? Have we finally, officially gone over that line where judges are now going to actively make the laws instead of enforcing them, and just slipping some new laws in every once and a while?)

[Wristpin]

I read that the Colonel is coming out with a new addictive spicy chicken blend.

http://161.58.5.90/axe/hatedcol.wav

[VeniVidiVici]

These are the same idiots that did in movie popcorn.

And I agree that Popeyes is a MUCH better chicken taste. Something happened to KFC over the years to where it just tastes so blech.

[Jack Hammer]

Some nanny state doctor's phony baloney. In a single word, here's the real motivate: ka-ching! Egomaniacal doctor strokes his manufactured sense of self-righteous indignation and America loses. The only winners (once again): the lawyers.

[SkyPilot]

We think alike.

[Fawn]

Well....unfortunatly I am paying for other peoples heart attacks. I wish people were forced to exercise and eat well...our health insurance would be cheaper.

[FairOpinion]

"I wish people were forced to exercise and eat well..."


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Maybe you should move to China.

[elkfersupper]

From the article:

Dr. Arthur Hoyte, a retired physician from Rockville, Md., and the Center for Science in the Public Interest

From Activistcash.com:

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is the undisputed leader among America’s “food police.” CSPI was founded in 1971 by current executive director Michael Jacobson, and two of his co-workers at Ralph Nader’s Center for the Study of Responsive Law. Since then, CSPI’s joyless eating club has issued hundreds of high-profile—and highly questionable—reports condemning soft drinks, fat substitutes, irradiated meat, biotech food crops, French fries, and just about anything that tastes good.

And in 2001, the reliably anti-alcohol Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gave CSPI’s campaign against social drinkers $749,999.

Another fine set of initiatives brought to you by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Johnson & Johnson) - who coincidentally make and market little pills for everything.

Activistcash.com

[elkfersupper]

Maybe you should move to China.

I was thinking maybe North Korea, except for that "eat well" part, of course.

[Gabz]

Dr. Arthur Hoyte, a retired physician from Rockville, Md., and the Center for Science in the Public Interest

EXCUSE ME............. It may be a Doctor.

A doctor and a consumer group

But there is NO consumer group involved here.....CSPI is nothing but a socialistic nanny state organization seeking to control what anyone consumes.

[bfree]

So you are a food nazi, nice to know that. You aren't paying any more than anyone else, in fact, we are paying for you and your family every time you go to the doctor also. If you are such a health nut, why buy insurance, why don't you just self insure? That should be cheaper for you, but you would just rather dictate to others, wouldn't you?

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Free will? That doesn't make sense....everyone is a victim and no one is ever held responsible for shoving that chicken in their mouths.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Free will? That doesn't make sense....everyone is a victim and no one is ever held responsible for shoving that chicken in their mouths.