[jumpstartme]

It will not be long before McDonald's is found with sugar in their burgers.

McDonalds will weather this storm fine. They do business under very strange market conditions around the globe, including selling "burgers" with no beef in India. They're some kind of lamb burger. No lie.

American version: Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions,on a sesame seed bun.

India's version: Maharaja Mac "two all lamb patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun." Holy cow, batman!

[Grit]

Or even better, it gets to a jury, as the tobacco industry lawsuits did, and look out, the floodgates open.

But there was a big difference with cigarettes. They contain an addictive drug, nicotine, that the industry lied about for decades. It truly is hard to quit smoking once you're addicted, and the tobacco business made a fortune on that fact.

It is not hard to put down a cheeseburger. But it is apparently too hard to walk away from behavior that should be embarrassing in and of itself: blaming everyone else for your problems.

The fast-food lawsuits are different than the tobacco lawsuits because...