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Subject: [Leica] Supersize me
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Mar 7 07:34:18 2007
References: <70d5554f0703070615g6ae08e26g54d4fc0b72355a37@mail.gmail.com> <20070307143555.EA1602FC1B@donald.hostspirit.ch> <45EED582.8030807@waltjohnson.com> <20070307153101.E6D3F2FCDC@donald.hostspirit.ch>

On Mar 7, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Didier Ludwig wrote:

> Walt
> Myself I'm always astonished about these damage claims

gee why ???


:-)


put a bullet in your head, why not sue the gun manufacturer...?

Steve







> - the US laws for product and producer's liability are much tougher  
> than around here (Europe I mean). Personally I find it's up to each  
> own's responsibility what he does to his health. If regulating  
> smoking and obesity, then there could be done much more against it  
> if the typical diseases resulting from it would be excluded from  
> the basic health insurances (or coupled with a significant higher  
> fee or percentage share). In Switzerland, a smoker costs half a  
> million francs in average - smoking related illness costs only -  
> and after subtracting the tobacco taxes he paid with every box of  
> cigarettes.
> Didier
>
>
>
>> Didier
>>
>> Unfortunately, you are probably right. I can picture it now, with  
>> a 300 pound woman tearfully telling the jury " the Burger King  
>> made do it". The destructive element of this scenario jumps out  
>> and bites like a snake. As long as we blame everyone and  
>> everything but ourselves we don't stand a chance. Who doesn't  
>> realize what a Whopper and fries  does to their svelteness?   
>> Nonetheless, it goes according to plan. The obese woman cries, the  
>> jury sniffles, Oprah has tears running down her cheek for the  
>> close up and we all lose.
>>
>> Burger King hands out a whopper of a cash settlement, and raises  
>> the price for their delicacies. The obese woman takes he new found  
>> wealth, buys a gold-plated scooter  to zip up and down the junk  
>> food aisles. The rest of us? Who knows, maybe we continue to stuff  
>> ourselves silly in preparation for the next ice age. :-)
>>
>> Walt
>>
>> Didier Ludwig wrote:
>>> The day will come where these companies will be taken to court  
>>> and claimed for damages for selling ill making goods - like the  
>>> tobacco industry. Kellogs (corn flakes) for instance has already  
>>> begun to use wholemeal ingredients and lowered the sugar contents  
>>> - after they got tons of bad press articles about making kids fat.
>>> Didier
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In reply to: Message from benmarks2005 at gmail.com (Benjamin Marks) ([Leica] Burger King)
Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Supersize me)
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Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Supersize me)