Posted on 08/19/2012 7:20:33 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Don Barrett, a Mississippi lawyer, took in hundreds of millions of dollars a decade ago after suing Big Tobacco and winning record settlements from R. J. Reynolds, Philip Morris and other cigarette makers. So did Walter Umphrey, Dewitt M. Lovelace and Stuart and Carol Nelkin.
Ever since, the lawyers have been searching for big paydays in business, scoring more modest wins against car companies, drug makers, brokerage firms and insurers. Now, they have found the next target: food manufacturers.
More than a dozen lawyers who took on the tobacco companies have filed 25 cases against industry players like ConAgra Foods, PepsiCo, Heinz, General Mills and Chobani that stock pantry shelves and refrigerators across America
The suits, filed over the last four months, assert that food makers are misleading consumers and violating federal regulations by wrongly labeling products and ingredients. While there has been a barrage of litigation against the industry in recent years, the tobacco lawyers are moving particularly aggressively. They are asking a federal court in California to halt ConAgra’s sales of Pam cooking spray, Swiss Miss cocoa products and some Hunt’s canned tomatoes.
“It’s a crime — and that makes it a crime to sell it,” said Mr. Barrett, citing what he contends is the mislabeling of those products. “That means these products should be taken off the shelves.”
The food companies counter that the suits are without merit, another example of litigation gone wild and driven largely by the lawyers’ financial motivations. Mr. Barrett said his group could seek damages amounting to four years of sales of mislabeled products — which could total many billions of dollars.
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That's a bit more accurate. You're welcome!
There are some reports that show it causes birth defects in animals and humans. There are some very small studies that showed human embryo death that placental and umbilical cord demise. Obviously human studies are limited. The problem is who’s reporting on the studies. A lot of times it’s “greeny” type organizations and while I think probably most of the time their concerns are overstated, there is some truth to what they report. The other side is the government telling us there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, and I’m equally reluctant to believe that. There was a HuffPo artical that cited a review by the gov’t of Argentina that thought it was likely that glyphosate was causing those issues.
Again, as you agreed, give me all the information and let me make my own decision. If someone else wants to eat that stuff, fine by me. In the last year and a half I’ve been pregnant and now breastfeeding; I don’t want it! Unfortunately the only way to know that you’re not getting GM food is to buy organic because for now GM is not allowed in organic foods. I don’t necessarily think organic has any more or better nutrients in it, but I know it doesn’t have RoundUp and pesticides on/in it.
How many times during the attack on smokers did we say this was going to happen? It was the logical next step.
I'm not trusting the government. I'm trusting the food manufacturers. From experience, I know how seriously they take these matters.
They are not in the business of killing their customers. They prefer them alive, making repeat purchases.
“A lot of times it’s “greeny” type organizations and while I think probably most of the time their concerns are overstated, there is some truth to what they report. The other side is the government telling us there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it,”
Those greeny types are aligned with the government, of either stripe. That you think they are in opposition is very telling. They have worked together to nearly destroy this once great country and their main tool in doing this destruction? Create panic by blaming private companies.
They have used panic to eliminate private property rights, to eliminate many facets of individual liberty, and they have used the reactors to those panic issues to further their government growing agenda.
Don’t fall for any trickery where you think that they are not aligned....
If you think so.
The tobacco companies probably prefer a live customer also...
No, I don’t think so, I know so. It is well documented and can be seen over and over and over and over and over....
If you can’t see it, then you must be either very young, or just learning. How many examples will it take before you realize that neither the “greeny studies” nor the government has our best interest at heart?
“The tobacco companies probably prefer a live customer also...”
And there you have it. The attack on tobacco was a major tool to the usurpation of private property rights and individual liberty. They laid the foundation and now they have many who will use that foundation to the further usurpation of private property rights and infringements on individual liberty.
In fact, as I was reading many of your posts earlier I kept catching the same sentiment in many of the pro-tobacco ban FReepers from those threads. It actually was sending the same chills up my spine.
The fact that someone is on FR and has the access to so much information and a clear motivation to learn, is still willing to use the marxists foundations, is pretty sad....
When we have fellow FREE REPULICANS (referencing the form of government not the political party) that stand with those that want to eliminate private property and limit individual liberty, then the battle is lost.
Hey look, you go on eating what you want to eat, and if you don’t care what’s in it or where it comes from, good for you. I want full disclosure about the food I eat; what’s in it, where it comes from, etc. And there’s no good reason why that info can’t and shouldn’t be provided so I can make my own decision rather than relying on someone else to make the decision for me.
If you go back and read Okie01’s reply to me you’ll see that he used the example of trusting the food makers to give me good food because they like having living customers that return to buy more food. I used his same example regarding the tobacco companies. Do you think they want to kill off all their customers who will then not be around to buy their product? It is a fair and accurate comparison. You can look at the recent dog food recalls as a great example; was it the dog food makers goal to kill all those dogs so people stop buying their food, or should we just trust them to use superior ingredients that won’t harm our animals? Oops for the people that just trusted that their dog food wasn’t coming from China.
The greeny types have also been warning about BPA in certain plastics and study after study shows they have harmful effects. But you probably think that’s a lie also. Fine by me if you or anyone else keeps putting plastics into their bodies. I’ve looked at as much info about it as I can and I make different choices. Sure am glad I have the freedom to do so instead of just going along with what you say.
Don’t even dare compare me to a marxist because I think I deserve to know what is in the food I purchase. It’s actually the other way around as I see it, by you telling me I don’t deserve to know, just buy it and shut up. The gov’t already requires ingredients to be listed, the list should be as accurrate as possible and there’s no good reason it can’t be.
Nasty. I wonder if you can control the priority of the choices or delete “Android” from the dictionary.
O.K., you may not be a Marxist. You do deserve to know what's iin the food that you eat, but there are limits in your right to know and your need to know.
Virtually everything that you eat has a certain level of contamination allowed without penalty. Lert's assume that the grain products that you eat...wheat in your bread, oats in your Cheerios, etc. have an allowable level of vermin (rat do-do, dead bugs, fecal material) present without penalty ( and they do) what do you want to do about it??? It is IMPOSSIBLE to keep you in a sterile environment all your life.
Enjoy yourself, the people who feed you are doing a fantastic job of doing so. Don't worry about what is in a product that you purchase on the open market. The company that sold it to you does not want you th be afraid to eat it...therefore they comply with FAR TOO MANY federal and state regulations to insure that your food is as good as anything on earth!!!
Aahhh, a limit to my rights..... okay then.
We weren’t talking about unavoidable contaminents. Just an honest listing of intentional ingredients is all I ask for.
I recently ‘reset’ my op system to ‘original condition’ and it was automatically turned on. Now I turned it off......
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