debate about mcdonalds

McDonald´s and obesity• Some years ago, Bronx teenagers Ashley Pelman and Jazlyn Bradley sued McDonald's, claiming that it had caused them to become obese and unhealthy... McDonald´s

McDonald´s and obesity

• Some years ago, Bronx teenagers

Ashley Pelman and Jazlyn Bradley

sued McDonald's, claiming that it had caused them to become obese and

unhealthy

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McDonald´s and obesity

• The judge ruled that the girls must allege (and be prepared to prove) that

McDonald's has successfully fooled its

customers into a state of ignorance about the health risks of eating its product and that in the absence of McDonald's

deception, they would not have become overweight

Let´s talk.

• Do you think the American Law should forbid people from suing Food

Companies? Why or why not?

McDonalds Made Me Fat!

• Gregory Rhymes,15, of the Bronx, is taking

McDonald's to court, claiming that the burger giant made him fat.

• Super-sized at 400-plus pounds and standing only 5-foot-6, Rhymes says he ate at

McDonald's nearly every day, sometimes

several times a day, ever since he started first grade - about 3,300 days straight

McDonalds Made Me Fat!

• Gregory's mother, Ruth Rhymes, thinks it's only fair that her kid should now try sinking his teeth into McDonalds "I had no idea

that he was destroying himself," she said

in papers filed in Manhattan federal court

"I had no idea."

McDonalds Made Me Fat!

• The lawyer acting on behalf of these

outsized teens is Samuel Hirsch He says people are too dumb to know what's good for them and that McDonald's has an

obligation to make known that their food is unhealthy

McDonalds Made Me Fat!

• "Nobody thinks that going to McDonald's can be unhealthy because McDonald's

promotes their food as healthy," says

Hirsch "Young people are not in a position

to make a choice after the onslaught of

advertising and promotions."

GROUP A GROUP B

• You´re going to

defend the

cheeseburger bill.

• You´re going to defend the consumer

´s right to sue food companies.

Get together and

create as many

arguments as you

can! Convince the

other group you’re

right!

Let´s talk more.

• Do you think young people are prepared to make their own decisions about the food

they eat?

• Do you think that Advertising is really

deceiving?