Skip to comments.
PETA Cries Foul in KFC Lawsuit
Reuters ^
| Monday July 7, 2:26 pm
| CHICAGO - Reuters
Posted on 07/07/2003 1:08:36 PM PDT by Calpernia
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-25 next last
I'm pretty much convinced that these motives aren't about animals alone. PETA is a bunch of people with personality disorders being manipulated by NGOs and lawyers looking for the next payday.
Investors Business Daily, June 25, 2003 Hard copy - Issues and Insights
Feeding Frenzy
Tort Reform: Big Tobacco was just the start. Lawyers and activists now have their sights trained on Big Food, and it's not a sure thing that they would lose.
Not so long ago, few would have dreamed that restaurants or food processors would be targeted, tobacco style, by trial lawyers looking for their next big payday.
In Fact, the satirical newspaper the Onion - as a joke- ran anarticle 3 years ago announcing a $135 billion judgment against Hershey's for making Americans fat. Everyone knew it was a put-on. But that was then, in a slightly more sensible time.
In the intervening years, leaders of the tobacco attack have turned their attention to what is sometimes called (not in jest) Big Food.
A number of them got together over the weekend in a Boston event, fittingly called the First Annual Conference on Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic. John Banzhaf III, a George Washington University professor and much-quoted anti-smoking activist, was a speaker. Another leader in teh tobacco wars, Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, was one of the conference organizers.
As news reports noted, the conference focused on finding legal strategies against the fast food and snack food industries and the tobacco analogy was a leading theme. That is, find a way to persuade juries, judges and the public that McDonalds or Kraft Foods is knowingly selling unhealthy substances that make people fat-like sugary snacks or fatty fries.
Banzhaf also brought up the addiction angle. According to the Washington Times, he cited a study published in the New Scientist suggesting that foods with fat or sugar share some similarities with addictive drugs in the way they act on the brain.
Don't snicker. The addiction argument can be quite seductive in a legal culture that tends to play down the importance of personal choices. Besides the food fighters don't have to win any big cases in court. They just need to scare highly risk-averse corporations into settling the suits for handsome sums, which amount to a new litigation tax on the food companies and of course, their customers.
Americans might not end up any thinner or healthier as a result; after all, they can still choose to eat too much. But it's a safe guess that unless limits are placed on lawsuits, perhaps such as those in a bill proposed by Rep. Ric Keller, R-FLA, lawyer's wallets will fatten.
1
posted on
07/07/2003 1:08:36 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
To: PhiKapMom; Coleus
What do you think? PETA really an NGO?
2
posted on
07/07/2003 1:10:11 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.)
To: Calpernia
The big story is why an outfit whose antics are so ridiculous as to be parodies is given any attention at all. Without the leftist media support, they disappear. With leftist media support they are a big pain in the donkey.
3
posted on
07/07/2003 1:15:38 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
To: Mind-numbed Robot
You have no idea how I regret the loss of the fur salon on the ground floor of my building - the entertainment value of PETA activists dressed in thongs and body paint, shivering in the winter cold to protest, was priceless. Even people who didn't smoke would take smoke breaks to go mock them.
4
posted on
07/07/2003 1:17:59 PM PDT
by
nina0113
To: Calpernia
INTREP
To: LiteKeeper
What does that mean LiteKeeper? I see you post that every now and then. I think Spotrep is another.
6
posted on
07/07/2003 1:25:29 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.)
To: Calpernia
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030704/health_argentina_mcdonalds_1.html BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July 4 (Reuters) - Argentine authorities have shut down a McDonald's (NYSE:MCD - News) outlet and a Burger King outside Buenos Aires, saying preliminary tests on food samples showed positive for the potentially deadly E-coli bacteria.
"The closures are a precaution, because two preliminary lab tests were positive for the bacteria on samples taken June 24," Ana Repetto, a senior official for the local government of Moron district, 22 miles (35 km) west of the capital, said on Friday.
Repetto said the two outlets -- closed on Thursday evening -- would remain shut until further tests were completed.
E. coli is a bacteria that causes diarrhea and dehydration, and can be fatal in some extreme cases.
The closures come just two weeks after local McDonald's executives publicly denied the company's products were to blame for the death of a 7-year-old boy in the city of La Plata, south of the capital. The boy's parents maintain he died from food poisoning after eating at the fast food chain.
McDonald's issued a statement on Friday saying it was "surprised at the decision (to close its outlet) on the basis of a test on a raw meat sample, because that is not how the products are delivered to the public."
Repetto said health experts had made clear that cooking at high temperatures may not be enough to eliminate the risk of E-coli, saying the bacteria could be passed on to bread or utensils touched by the pre-cooked meat.
The local unit of Burger King said in a statement it had hired an independent lab to carry out "a parallel test."
7
posted on
07/07/2003 1:27:56 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.)
To: All
I'M BACK!!!
SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC
Donate Here By Secure Server
Or mail checks to
FreeRepublic , LLC
PO BOX 9771
FRESNO, CA 93794
or you can use
PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com
STOP BY A BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD (It's in the Breaking News sidebar!)
8
posted on
07/07/2003 1:28:46 PM PDT
by
Support Free Republic
(Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
To: Calpernia
I am a retired Army officer (artillery, MI, and chaplain). I have the privilege of teaching several classes in Colorado Springs to high school, college, and adults on comparative worldviews (biblical vs secular). As I read the various threads, some impress me as good for illustrating different worldviews. So, using some Army terminology, I mark "incidents" as "SPOTREPS" (spot report) and "descriptions of the current world scene" as "SITREPs" (situation reports). INTREP (Intelliegence Report) provides information of an event involving those of the "opposition;" INTSUM (Intelligence Summary) provides more general information. When I get home, I download these SPOTREPs and SITREPs to a database for future use.
"LiteKeeper" is short for "Lighthouse Keeper." I am a great fan of lighthouses, and even more so the many Christian principles that can be illustrated through the lighthouse metaphor. Additionally, Christians are told to "let your light so shine before men that will see our good works and glorify our Father who is in heaven." As a pastor,I see my role is helping Christians keep the light shining, as did the early light keepers on the shores of our great nation.
Does that help?
To: LiteKeeper
Helps a lot. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what those Intrep, spotreps were for :)
LiteKeeper is a perfect handle for you.
10
posted on
07/07/2003 1:39:47 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.)
To: Calpernia
PETA contends that the chickens KFC buys from suppliers are abused through drugging, feeding and slaughter practices.
I hear they even kill some of them.
11
posted on
07/07/2003 1:42:50 PM PDT
by
dead
To: Calpernia
PETA: Perverts for the Extinction of True-blue Americans
12
posted on
07/07/2003 1:45:14 PM PDT
by
quark
To: Calpernia
When I was doing contract work at the World Bank in DC, PETA showed up with a dumptruck full of manure and dumped it at the front entrance. It took the WB janitorial crew a couple hours to clean up the mess (note that Dr. James Wolfeson was not on the cleanup crew).
Turns out that PETA had rented the truck from a friend of my brothers' in Maryland, and they'd provided a secured credit card good for only $200.00, which covered the rental cost but not by any stretch the fine and impoundment fees from the DC police.
The owner of the truck had to pay several $$ hundred to retrieve his dumptruck, and the perps haven't paid-up to this day.
PETA hates human beings. Like any criminal enterprise, they'll screw you over in a heartbeat to make their point.
13
posted on
07/07/2003 2:02:57 PM PDT
by
angkor
To: dead
14
posted on
07/07/2003 2:08:29 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.)
To: Calpernia
I had KFC's buffet for lunch.
Perfect for the Atkins diet.
Cheap too.
15
posted on
07/07/2003 2:10:15 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help support terrorism.)
To: Calpernia
I'll stay with the chicken, thanks.
Tried eating PETA members as a substitute- turns out they're way too tough and stringy.
Dogs wouldn't eat 'em, either.
16
posted on
07/07/2003 2:14:07 PM PDT
by
George Smiley
(Is the RKBA still a right if you have to get the government's permission before you can exercise it?)
To: Calpernia
PETA may have a point.
KFC says that chickens are handled "humanely". What does that mean? Are they put up in motels and given free HBO and Continental Breakfast?
Chickens are not humans. They should not be treated "humanely", but "chickenly". As a human, I don't want to be put in a coop. Chickens belong in one of three places: a coop, an oven, or a deep-fryer.
OK, this post is designed to be funny, but there is a series point here.
To: You Dirty Rats; Poohbah
My view on animal rights:
A mink ir a rat with a high R rating.
18
posted on
07/07/2003 2:27:20 PM PDT
by
hchutch
(The National League needs to adopt the designated hitter rule.)
To: You Dirty Rats
>>>handled "humanely". What does that mean? Are they put up in motels and given free HBO and Continental Breakfast?
That is our prisoners.
19
posted on
07/07/2003 2:31:17 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.)
To: You Dirty Rats
Chickens are not humans. They should not be treated "humanely", but "chickenly". As a human, I don't want to be put in a coop Or fowly as it were.
20
posted on
07/07/2003 2:38:27 PM PDT
by
jokar
(There I said it)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-25 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson