The Twinkie Prosecution
Who cares about the Twinkie Defense when you can have the Twinkie Prosecution? NY blogging superstar Megan McArdle of Live from the WTC has the lead story in Salon today (link courtesy mystery superstar A. Beam.) Megan (who was discovered by Salon via her blog) writes about attorneys who hope to sue the fast-food industry for obesity the same way tobacco companies have been sued for causing cancers and other bad things. She makes the point, though, that smoker plaintiffs could easily target one tobacco company since they normally smoked only one brand their whole life. However, it will be harder to sue KFC, since KFC could say the defendant got even fatter from eating Big-Macs, pizza, Chupitas, Doritos and creamy double-chocolate cake with truffled hazelnut filling. Mmmmm.
- posted by Amy @ 5/24/2002 09:07:00 AM