Fighting Obesity?
Trying to eliminate fat or just transferring all that fat to the lawyers' wallets?
In a lawsuit they plan to file in the next few months, Mr. [Stephen] Gardner [of the Center for Science in the Public Interest] and half a dozen other lawyers, several of them veterans of successful tobacco litigation, will seek to ban sales of sugary beverages in schools.
The lawsuit is to be filed in Massachusetts, which has strong consumer protection laws and happens to be where some of the lawyers are based, and will name Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and their local bottlers, the lawyers say. It will be the first of many such state lawsuits, they say.
Call me ignorant, but aren't the schools more to blame than the beverage companies? The schools are making money by giving exclusive access rights, and the schools have a responsibility to the children (the companies don't). I realize the schools are probably sheltered from such bogus lawsuits under governmental immunity, but still, in the realm of comparative fault, they are far more culpable than Coke and Pepsi.
