For the past few weeks Burger King has had this commercial for their new breakfast sandwich. It’s this huge calorie filled fest of a thing that when I look at it I can’t help but wonder about how many arteries it might clog up. Then there’s the king. It’s a man in funky looking king mask. The kind they still make for dead presidents when some body wants to commit a robbery. Creepy. If Burger King wants to sell unhealthy then I’m guessing that they’re doing a great job, and Congress is helping.
The House of Representatives passed the "Cheeseburger Bill." Now parents can’t hold fast foods accountable for their children’s obesity and neither can adults.
The legislation’s backers say matters of personal responsibility don’t belong in the courts.
"As one judge put it, if a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of super-sized McDonald’s products is unhealthy and could result in weight gain, it is not the place of the law to protect them from their own excesses," said Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
If people are more obese does a lawsuit shave off the pounds, or avoiding the drive thru?