Mustard, relish ... and cancer warning labels?
The nonprofit Cancer Project filed a lawsuit today to compel companies to place cancer-risk warning labels on hot dog packages sold in New Jersey. The suit, by a group that promotes a meat-free diet, seeks to require cancer-risk labels on processed meats. Nutrition experts say foods that go along with the hot dog may be more dangerous.
Photo: Stefano Paltera / For The Times
What ever happened to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY?
I'm a long way from a vegan, but just READING THE LABEL is aversion therapy enough! Sheesh.
Posted by: M. | July 30, 2009 at 06:16 PM
I represent plaintiffs in consumer fraud cases, I am a vegetarian, and I am a quasi-ARA, and I am here to say that this lawsuit is not only frivolous, it is dangerous. This is precisely the kind of nonsense that will end up serving as a poster child for the so-called tort reformers who have been able to undo the very real benefits provided by strong consumer-protection laws by seizing on meritless cases like this one, that should not never have been brought. This not only makes my job much harder, it makes me very sad because it will end up hurting consumers in the long run. The lawyers should be ashamed.
Posted by: Oh good grief | July 23, 2009 at 01:01 PM