Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Sunday, October 31, 2004

Storm in a Fruit Basket

Wal-Mart in the USA is the parent company of the ASDA in Great Britain, where it is apparently illegal to promote the advantages of eating fruits and vegetables. Signs which promoted the antioxidant qualities of mangoes caused the company to get a big fine for violating a 1996 food labeling law.

“The firm had argued that though words in the claim were illegal, they were not untrue. Outside court, a spokeswoman for Asda said: "We think this is an absolute storm in a fruit basket. We cannot believe we are in the dock for telling people that eating fruit and vegetables is good for them." " Guardian

posted by Rosabelle 4:25 PM  

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