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Do You Want Alli® With That: Judge Orders McDonalds to Pay For Employee Weight Gain

In what must be a first, Brazilian Judge Joao Ghisleni Filho ruled that a former franchise manager must be paid $17,500.00 because he gained 65 pounds while working for McDonalds Restaurant for over 12 years. The unnamed employee claimed he had to sample food each day to meet quality standards and to appease “mystery clients” that McDonalds hired to secretly inspect the restaurant. The unidentified man’s biggest gripe — McDonalds had the audacity to offer free lunches to employees.

U.S. consumers spend about $150 billion dollars on fast food that is marketed to children and to lower income adults. McDonalds claims it presents healthy choices along with its high fat-high sodium offerings. In 2003, a New York family sued the hamburger giant alleging that, by manipulating the taste of food, fat and sugar content, and its aggressive marketing to children mislead consumers about the nutritional value of its food and led directly to their daughter’s obesity.  A federal judge threw the suit out of court, but the Industry responded with a so-called “Cheeseburger Bill” to ban such suits in the future. The Bill passed the House in 2005 but stalled in the Senate.

Over one half of all American adults are considered obese, and hundreds of thousands of deaths are attributed to obesity. Will “Big Fat” become the next “Big” like “Big Tobacco” and “Big Oil.” If we’re looking in Brazil, the answer might be just wait and see.

–Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger

Source: Yahoo News

73 thoughts on “Do You Want Alli® With That: Judge Orders McDonalds to Pay For Employee Weight Gain”

  1. Bud
    1, October 30, 2010 at 1:01 am
    Oh my God, I can’t believe I just hit the submit tab….

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    Don’t worry … it doesn’t hit back 🙂

  3. “The unnamed employee claimed he had to sample food each day.”

    Yes . . but did somebody strong-arm ‘unnamed employee’ to keep gobbling the entire Big Mac he was testing?

    I’ve met plenty of sommeliers in my life. Funny how they all managed to stay sober.

    And McDonald’s had the gold-plated, unmitigated gall to feed the employees without charge.

    DAMN them.

  4. anon nurse 1, October 29, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    Now “Bud” would have something very witty to say about the following. The question is: Will “he” bite?

    “Pharmacological evidence implicates the DRD4 gene in obesity.”

    Wooooe. I thought you were going to ask me if I was really
    BUD THE STUD…

    I mean it’s all in the jeans right???

  6. Can’t. Wouldn’t. Well, maybe…

    (Thanks for the laughs — it’s been a perfectly lousy day.)

    Oh, it’s so tempting… 🙂

  7. Paging Wayne Frost, Paging…

    “Turning over the asylum to the inmates, eh? Don’t let me down mespo.”

  9. anon nurse 1, October 29, 2010 at 11:36 pm

    Bud??? Now, if I had to guess… 🙂

    Come on… Don’t tease me…
    Guess…

  10. mespo727272
    1, October 29, 2010 at 11:22 pm
    Oops, all that blogging power just went to my head and I responded as JT. I suspect he is getting ready to jet his way to sunny — but striking — Paris. Feels better being mespo, again.

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    Are you telling me there is no Santa Claus?

  12. Blawger Mespo, we have served with JT here, we know JT, JT is a friend of ours, Blawger Mespo, you’re no JT…(Sir)

    (maybe a close 2nd…)

  13. Oops, all that blogging power just went to my head and I responded as JT. I suspect he is getting ready to jet his way to sunny — but striking — Paris. Feels better being mespo, again.

  14. SwM,

    Re: link

    Just great … Canton Ohio is in Stark County which is where that “screamer” Phil Davison is from. This is embarrassing!

  16. Bud
    1, October 29, 2010 at 10:58 pm
    If we’re looking in Brazil, the answer might be just wait and see. — MESPO

    or did you mean WEIGHT and see?

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    lol

  17. Oh no! I don’t eat anything from McDonalds but I do get a large latte which equals approx. 21 grams carb, 160-260 calories.

    Big Carbs, Big Calories, Big Caffeine – I’m doomed.

  19. If we’re looking in Brazil, the answer might be just wait and see. — MESPO

    or did you mean WEIGHT and see?

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