What would happen if everyone in the US sued fast food companies for the health problems that they cause?

Question

How would this affect the US economy, the fast food market, the average US citizen?

Also, what long term affect would this have on our country?

How would this affect the US economy, the fast food market, the average US citizen?

Also, what long term affect would this have on our country?

My reasoning behind this is that I was asked to come up with a terrorist organization and carry out a terrorist attack in one of my classes and I wanted to think of an attack that would not result in genocide. I don't believe in it so I was trying to come up with something that would still be considered an attack, but not necessarily one that would result in death.

Answer 1

Hopefully judges would tell everybody to go to Hades. People make their own choices, and fast food companies have not cause health problems. People making too many poor choices have pickled their own bodies.

Answer 2

Nobody has any good reason to sue the fast food companies. If people weren't happy eating at McDonald's and similar restaurants, those restaurants wouldn't still be in business (provided that they don't get subsidized by the government or become a government contractor of course). The lawsuit against McDonald's for making somebody fat was too laughable even for our awful court system to consider, which is fortunate. If they had successfully sued McDonald's in that case, it would have been a disaster, as it would have shown that there is nothing absurd that the courts won't consider.

Answer 3

Well what would happen is you would put tens of thousands of people out of work, you would crush a part of the "food services" economy, which would hurt shipping, because that is now food product that is not being sent across the country.

You would also hurt farmers because there would not be as high of a demand for their product.

Then you would also hurt a whole group of food science developers, that create products for the industry.

It would probably destroy the fast food market as you know it, the average citizen would have to learn how to cook and shop.

Also you would create a backlash towards all restaurants that are not fast food restaurants.

P.S. Fast Food Restaurants do not cause health problems, people eating double quarter pounders with cheese like they were Tic Tacs causes health problems.

Answer 4

I am so sick of hearing about fat people suing places like McD and other food places because the food they got there made them fat. Or sueing because the customer burned her inner thighs because the dumb woman set the hot coffee between her thighs while driving a car.
These people are disgusting leeches on society. They take no responsibility for thier own stupid actions and expect to become rich as a result.
In the long run everyone else suffers because the business' insurance premiums are elevated, causing the cost of the food to be raised.
If you are such a glutton that you become fat, that is your problem. If you are such an idiot that you drive with a hot drink between your legs, you deserve to be burned.
These people cost all of us because they take up court time, paid for mostly by the taxpayers, and making it necessary for those who patronize resturants and fast food places to pay more for the food.
It has a ripple effect and affects us all in one fashion or another.
The judges should throw these idiots and thier nuisance suits out of court.
I think the juries that gave the idiot who burned her legs millions of dollars did so because they are also stupid and figure the big corporations can pay so why not make them.
Some juries are as stupid as the people bringing on the suit.

Answer 5

The only cases with a chance of survival would be the "consumer expectations" cases, and even those would be iffy. The real effect would be a huge clog on the already overburdened judicial system, causing many people with legitimate injuries to have to wait longer to be compensated.

Sorry, but mass lawsuits would not be considered a terrorist attack, although your teacher might reward your creativity. Try thinking of eco-terrorists, since their "attacks" don't usually involve killing people.

Answer 6

A lot of people would lose and look really stupid. Besides, EVERYONE in America couldn't sue fast food. I mean, some people who own fast food companies ARE AMERICAN!!! And, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't sue my own company.

Many fast food companies are starting to print the nutritional facts about their food on the packaging it comes in.

I think most of the court cases would be thrown out. Most lawyers would probably tell everyone that they didn't have a case in the first place.

Answer 7

The same thing that happened when everyone sued the tobacco industry for their health problems after choosing to smoke voluntarily.

The ole Big Mac would be taxed to death with a sin tax and the funds used to offset the cost of health care.

Answer 8

Infiltrate and crash the computer networks of the big three credit reporting agencies and the major banks. This would bring our economy to it's knees and cause instant chaos
I an not sure about the fast food stuff.

Answer 9

It would raise the prices of the burgers and fries we'd all continue buying anyway. Essentially, Americans would collectively pay a few lawyers to force the restaurants to jack up their prices in order to pay for the lawsuit.

In the end, all class action lawsuits are eventually paid for by the very people they were intended to support.

Same thing happened to tobacco.

Answer 10

Name one health problem the fast food industry has CAUSED .........

Any health problems related to the consumption of those high calorie and high fat foods are solely the responsibility of the consumers themselves. NO one forced them to go McD's, BK, Arbys, Carls Junior etc.... No one held a gun to their heads and said order the jumbo meal or else. Why have so many Americans stopped taking responsibility for their own behavior ???

These are the same IDIOTS who blamed the Tobacco Companies for their lung disease and cancers. I could care less if big tobacco told you smoking was perfectly safe, common sense tells us that taking smoke into your lungs is a bad thing.........