The company has felt the heat over its fries before. McDonald's paid $10 million in 2002 to settle a lawsuit by vegetarian groups after it was disclosed that its fries were being cooked in beef-flavored oil more than a decade after insisting that it was starting to use pure vegetable oil.
It paid another $8.5 million in February 2005 to settle a suit by a nonprofit advocacy group that accused the company of misleading consumers by announcing that it was changing its cooking oil, then delaying the switch.
That does it...I'm gonna sue...I thought all these years I was getting nice healthy beef lard, but instead they've been feeding me (my outrage is undiminished by the fact that I've probably eaten McDonald's French fries less then a dozen times since 1990) icky politically correct dangerous trans-fats...I WANT $1,000,000,000.00 DOLLARS...