Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It would be a boon to public health advocates if a 5 patty burger and fries or a bucket of fries chicken should cost $25. Or better yet if the price of corn syrup approached that of oil. It would be nice if fresh food were less expensive then the crap, but it ain't in my hood. I can get a 40 oz beer for less then a 1/2 gal of milk. Who does this disproportionately affect? I've never seen a vegetable on a billboard that I can recall anywhere in Brooklyn. But not to worry the market will take care of us all. At 10:31 AM 3/7/2007, you wrote: >Walt >Myself I'm always astonished about these damage claims - 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 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich, Sr. Physicist Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049