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“Everybody knows that, if you want to lose weight, you eat less, less calorie input, and more exercise. You don't have to learn that.” — MSNBC, The Abrams Report, Jan 2003 “Somewhere there is going to be a judge and a jury that will buy this, and once we get the first verdict, as we did with tobacco, it will open the floodgates.” — The New York Daily News, Jan 2003 “We're going to sue them and sue them and sue them.” — CBS Sunday Morning, Aug 2002 “If they [restaurants] are a significant contributor [to obesity], they should be held liable for their fair share. If the parents, if the children, if the adults, whatever, are responsible for another, they should be held lia -- [pause]” — Testimony before Congress, Jun 2003 “We're also now looking at going after schools and school boards and even school board members.” — NPR, Talk of the Nation, Aug 2003 “McDonald's may also be liable to pay punitive damages, and compensation for the pain and suffering of those who became seriously ill … I would not be surprised to see McDonald's paying more than $50 billion over the next decade.” — The Observer, Jul 2003 “All these platitudes about, 'people should eat less,' 'responsibility,' all this crap!” — Remarks at the Consumer Federation of America's food policies conference, May 2003 “A fast-food company like McDonald's may not be responsible for the entire obesity epidemic, but let's say they're 5 percent responsible. Five percent of $117 billion is still an enormous amount of money.” — TIME, Aug 2003 “Can physicians who do not advise overweight or obese or morbidly obese patients to lose weight, to take reasonable efforts to help them do so, might ought [sic] to be subject to malpractice action?” — Fast-food lawsuit advocate John Banzhaf at the June 2003 PHAI conference “I can't sue to make people exercise more ... But we can do something about fast food.” — John Banzhaf at the June 2003 PHAI conference “The very fact that lawyers are going to be making money out of [suing restaurants] is exactly what we're counting on, 'cause that's what made it with tobacco.” — CNBC's Capitol Report, May 2003 |
