Anti-Tobacco Lawyers Gunning for the Food Industry

The same lawyers who rocked the tobacco industry are now going after food manufactures ConAgra Foods, PepsiCo, Heinz, General Mills and Chobani among others. These companies are being targeted for allegedly placing misleading wording on their packaging such as calling food products organic or natural.

They’re also filing lawsuits against products not listing sugar in their ingredients. One former anti-tobacco lawyer, Don Barrett, had this to say about the current crop of food litigation:

“Food companies will argue that these are harmless crimes — the tobacco companies said the same thing. But to diabetics and some other people, sugar is just as deadly as poison.”

Diabetes is to food as cancer is to tobacco. It’s all downhill from here.

Read more at nytimes.com.