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I’ve been losing weight on a high-protein, high-fat, low carb diet. My blood sugar has stabilized too. So I must have a cause of action against the promoters of high-carb diets, such as the federal government (USDA?) as well as growers and sellers of bread, rice, potatos. And Snackwells! They must pay. Maybe I can sue the French. They make such great bread.
Maybe the defense attorneys need a copy of the report from the NYTimes that says Atkins was right all along! It’s not the fat it’s the CARBS!
Seriously, it’s so sad people nowadays can’t take the smallest biy of responibility in their own actions…
Guys, guys, you’re going about this the wrong way. You’ve got to think outside the box. There is money to be made here—stacks of it! I was going to get off my lard butt and go on a diet and maybe even get some of that exercise stuff I’ve been hearing about, but I’ve changed my mind. Instead, I’m going to get me one of those lawyers and sue, sue, sue! And guess who I’m gonna sue.
The Blogosphere.
That’s right, I blame y’all for my inability to get up out of this chair and go for a walk. Why, I’ve gained at least ten pounds in the last few months that I’ve been reading all your websites. You’re all just too funny and compelling, and I just haven’t been able to break the habit!
Now I’m sure that singly none of you has a lot of dough, but all of you together could probably provide me (and my lawyer) with a nice big pile of dead presidents. So if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to let my fingers do the walking.
Then again, maybe I’ll sue Time-Warner. After all, it’s their fault I have cable modem access in the first place. The company tempted me and I was powerless to resist!
I’m gonna sue WorldCom… they provide the backbone for the internet…
DAMN! They have no money left.
Waitaminit: You can get double meat on the MEATBALL sub? COOL!
But nuthin’ beats the 1lb burger from Fuddruckers, especially with cheese and bacon…
While your point is well taken, I wrote an essay on my own site that argues this is actually just the background noise of a system that works. An excerpt:
Back when we were all hitting each other over the head with rocks, justice came from your elders. People lived in groups of less than 30, everyone in that group knew everyone else and (because we haven’t changed all that much in 150,000 years) everyone knew everyone else’s business. Conflicts between individuals that couldn’t be resolved by grandma cracking someone over the head would go to the chief, and what he said was the final word. There were no appeals… who would you appeal to? When the chief was good, justice was fair. When he wasn’t, it wasn’t, but you always knew ahead of time because usually the chief was your mother’s-brother’s-wife’s-cousin, and you’d known him all your life. It may not have worked all the time, but it worked.
See the whole thing at:
Rule of Law
Apologies for the shameless plug, but this is a counter-argument I’ve never seen made anywhere else.
Jeff, you quote the article thusly:
The aim of the legal action is to force the fast-food industry to ‘offer a larger variety to the consumers, including non-meat vegetarian, less grams of fat, and a reduction of size’ of their meals, along with federal legislation that would require warning labels on fast food similar to those on tobacco products, Hirsch said.
What the flying Fisk is ‘non-meat vegetarian’? Is that as opposed to ‘vegetarian with some meat in it’? As in ‘not vegetarian’.
And why is it that vegetarians always look so ill? All the veggies I’ve known have been wan, sickly mucus factories. I think the VodkaPundit put it best when he commented on Quorn: Quorn is not a meat substitute. A meat substitute is the baked potato I eat between mouthfuls of steak.
I am now going to eat a whole stick of butter in solidarity with the fast food manufacturers.
Well, it’s easy to go off on the entire legal profession, but have we ever considered what our society would look like today if it were not for…
Oh. Sorry. Legal profession… I thought somebody said the LEGO profession. Unleash the wolverines.
I couldn’t help but be inspired the ingenious idea about suing various and sundry Internet providers for my lack of exercise so, in that vein, I’m gonna sue Al Friggin’ Gore!
He INVENTED the damn thing, after all!!!
Well, now that the lawyers have found that gun manufacturers wouldn’t roll over and die on class-action lawsuits, they have to do something to make downpayments on the Mercedes.
Besides, fast-food restaurant owners may well be armed. But they do not have the number of firearms lying around that gun manfacturers do.
I am waiting for the day when someone sues his lawyer (naming the ABA as co-defendant), for making him look stupid by filing a moronic lawsuit. They could talk about the bad publicity they received, how people made fun of them, the “lost wages,” “pain and suffering,” etc.
You watch, it’ll happen.
If only it would happen, E. Nough!
Non-meat vegetarians are probably those who allow themselves eggs, cheese and other animal
products. It’s not much of an improvement over the old term, ovi-lacto vegetarian, and therefore is politically correct, not to mention getting rid of a term that became a mark of shame amoung the kindegardners in Marin County.
Overheard on a local talk radio show:
Host:
Note that the tobacco companies didn’t add anything to tobacco to make it addictive (I know you know this, James, but bear with me). Nicotine is naturally present in tobacco. The reason they had to start jiggering around with the nicotine levels was to make them more consistent. Why? New government labelling regulations required it. (One way was by developing very high nicotine tobacco strains to use as fortifiers–extracting pure nicotine or synthesizing it proved more expensive than just growing the damn plants.) So all that eeeevil manipulation of nicotine by the tobacco companies was done not to reel in tow-headed innocents with one puff of the new “crack tobac,” but to conform to some tedious government regulation. The facts are such boring things, aren’t they?
Adding more nicotine to tobacco doesn’t make it more addictive, just as adding more alcohol to booze doesn’t make it more addictive. If there’s too much for you, you just get the spins and puke. Hoo boy, that’ll hook ‘em!
As for fatty food, quitting smoking was a snap compared to sticking to a low-fat diet. But that’s just me.
(And no, I’m not joining the damn suit! Besides, when was the last time anyone other than lawyers benefitted from a class-action suit?)
On a whim, I calculated my meal while eating at Subway once. I had a double-meat footlong BMT on wheat, with cheese, lettuce, pickles, banana peppers, spicy mustard, oil, and vinegar. According to their chart, my “snack” was 2,200 calories. Jarod didn’t get skinny on that fare.
But that was after a long day of hard physical exercise. Most times I eat 1/4 of that.
It’s all in the choices you make. I hope the jury understands that.
I’m a lacto-ovo-beefo-spagetti-o vegetarian…
I don’t think suing the blogosphere is such a great idea. Remember that the point of these suits is to go after people with deep pockets. I don’t think that most of these blogs make enough money for it to be worthwhile.
They want to force Fast Food places to have larger selections of good foods. I think every fast food place has offered salad on their menus and these folk haven’t taken them up on the deal or they wouldn’t be having health problems.
Perhaps they require McDonalds to judge which customers are incapable of self-restraint and order for them. That’ll work.
“Israel Bradley, 59, said his ritual of eating a pound of french fries a week…”
Only a pound a week? When I was a young man, I ate close to a pound of fried potatos a day, and never got my weight above 120 pounds. That is, I was so skinny that when I enlisted in the Air Force, I barely cleared the lower weight limit by filling up with bananas at breakfast, drinking a pint of water (one pound) while standing in line for the scale, and stooping just a little to lose an inch… My “secret”: jobs involving manual labor, and a hyperactive metabolism…
I did have to change my eating habits when my metabolism shifted in my early thirties (and I got promoted to a paper-shuffler), but one pound of french fries a week still sounds almost like a diet. Izzy, it’s not the french fries, it’s _all_ the stuff you eat put together, especially those little snacks you don’t count. And get some exercise.