Hot Dog!
There is a lawsuit against hot dog makers and the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s has a lawsuit against the restaurant chain Denny’s.
Here’s what the editorial board had to say about these “fringe food lawsuits”:
A New Jersey lawsuit demanding cigarette-pack-type warnings on hot dogs is mainly a crank case by a veganism advocacy group, the sort of legal action that makes for headlines rather than meaningful consumer protection. That suit — and another one filed just a day later in New Jersey demanding that Denny’s restaurant menus include the sodium content of all its dishes (as well as a warning label about the dangers of salt) — represents the kind of where-does-it-end silliness that makes even reasonable food-labeling laws seem out to lunch. …
The salt lawsuit was filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest on behalf of a 48-year-old man with high blood pressure who says he was “astonished” to learn of the sodium content in many Denny’s dishes.
But a man who takes medication for blood pressure should be educating himself about salt content; there should be nothing astonishing about the sodium levels in a pileup of ham, eggs and cheese that reportedly was his regular order at Denny’s.
Must we really resort to using food for litigation? If the Center for Science in the Public Interest really had the public interest at heart, they wouldn’t be constantly embarking on these ridiculous lawsuits that jack up prices for us consumers, especially during these difficult financial times.
Seems if they really cared about the public’s interest, they’d respect our right to be interested in the foods we want to eat and or need to eat…
