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...whole thing does seem ridiculous--until you meet the plaintiffs. They're kids, and part of being a kid is having a poor idea of what's good for you. Ashley Pelman, 14, Jazlyn Bradley, 19, and several other teenagers say in their suit that "as [a] result" of eating Happy Meals, McMuffins and Big Macs over the years, they "have become obese [and] developed diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure" and other problems. The young people claim that McDonald's didn't adequately warn them that its meals contained lots of fat, salt and sugar, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Food Fight Against McDonald's | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...while every responsible person may understand that, surely every child doesn't. Which raises the question of what the parents were doing when these kids were scarfing down all those burgers. Israel Bradley, father of Jazlyn, said in an affidavit that he "always believed McDonald's was healthy for my children." He says he never saw any information about ingredients at his local Mickey D's. Perhaps not. But any parent who has to look at a chart to know that French fries are fatty probably isn't serving macrobiotic health shakes at home. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Food Fight Against McDonald's | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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