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by Darkseid
on Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:18 am |
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N.J. residents plan to sue hot dog makers seeking health warnings
Star Ledger ^ | July 22, 2009 | Philip Read
Three New Jersey residents plan to file a lawsuit today that could put the staple of the great American backyard cookout -- the hot dog -- on the same path as the once romanticized puff on a cigarette.
Pointing to "landmark" research showing a heightened risk of colon cancer in people who consume processed meat, the class-action lawsuit in state Superior Court in Newark will target the makers of Nathan's, Oscar Mayer, Ball Park, Hebrew National and Sabrett franks as if they were Big Tobacco.
The plaintiffs want labels on hot dogs to read, "WARNING: CONSUMING HOT DOGS AND OTHER PROCESSED MEATS INCREASES THE RISK OF CANCER."
"We view this just like the tobacco litigation," said Dan Kinburn, the plaintiff's lead attorney and general counsel for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. "There is now a scientific consensus that processed meats are a significant cause of colorectal and other forms of cancer."
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by garhkal
on Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:34 pm |
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Darkseid wrote:
The plaintiffs want labels on hot dogs to read, "WARNING: CONSUMING HOT DOGS AND OTHER PROCESSED MEATS INCREASES THE RISK OF CANCER."
What doesn't increase the risk of cancer these days?? |
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by smallbird
on Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:59 pm |
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Now, the latest study in our newspaper today, says that pre-natal pollution causes lower IQs.
Stop already!  |
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by Pete Gatti
on Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:56 am |
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I know where I'd like to shove a few hotdogs but that would be a waste of good eatin' meat.  |
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by Smoker Sympathizer
on Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:52 pm |
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| I think these studies have reached the point of diminishing returns. Instead of enhancing the quality of our lives they're lowering it and shackling us in the process. This crap needs to stop now. My question is, have we reached the tipping point where people will say enough is enough, or will everyone just go along with it? |
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by smallbird
on Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:29 pm |
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Smoker Sympathizer wrote: I think these studies have reached the point of diminishing returns. Instead of enhancing the quality of our lives they're lowering it and shackling us in the process. This crap needs to stop now. My question is, have we reached the tipping point where people will say enough is enough, or will everyone just go along with it?
SOME people will say "enough is enough", the rest will say "It doesn't affect me, so why should I care?"  |
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by Smoker Sympathizer
on Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:57 pm |
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smallbird wrote: Smoker Sympathizer wrote: I think these studies have reached the point of diminishing returns. Instead of enhancing the quality of our lives they're lowering it and shackling us in the process. This crap needs to stop now. My question is, have we reached the tipping point where people will say enough is enough, or will everyone just go along with it?
SOME people will say "enough is enough", the rest will say "It doesn't affect me, so why should I care?"
The only silver lining in all this is that "the machine" (which is my name for the anti-freedom mechanism that lives in totalitarianism and creeps into democracy) is so damn insatiable that it will leave no one untouched. Eventually, enough of us will be undesirables that we'll unite and do something about it. Pulling out my nerd card for a moment, I remember a line from "Lord of the Rings" (the book) in which the narrator says that Sauron (the symbol of evil in the book) would rather see everyone in chains than living free, happy, peaceful lives, even if those people posed no threat. |
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