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# Fighting Obesity?
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3270/
- Published: 2005-12-07T13:00:06.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-07T13:00:06.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

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.

[*NYT* Link](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/business/07soda.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1133955544-51xDlHNS4qdQFPihuucjEg&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

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.