Suit: KFC is finger-lickin' bad for you
Fast food chain says suit is 'frivolous' and vows court fight
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) -- A doctor and a consumer group have sued KFC in an effort to stop the chicken chain from cooking with high-fat partially hydrogenated oil.
Dr. Arthur Hoyte, a retired physician from Rockville, Maryland, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, want a judge to order Kentucky Fried Chicken to use other types of cooking oils.
As an alternative, the suit says, they want to make sure customers are informed about trans fat content immediately before they make a purchase.
KFC spokeswoman Laurie Schalow called the lawsuit frivolous and said the company will fight it in court. Schalow said KFC is looking at using other types of oil for cooking, but it is committed to maintaining "KFC's unique taste and flavor."
KFC provides nutrition and fat information to consumers online and in restaurants, Schalow said.
"We have for a very long time," she said.
Michael Jacobsen, the executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said Louisville-based KFC parent company Yum Brands Inc. knows that other, healthier cooking products are available.
"KFC knows this, yet it recklessly puts its customers at risk of a Kentucky Fried Coronary," Jacobsen said.
Hoyte said he is suing to force KFC to change its cooking practices "for my son and others' kids, so they may have a healthier, happier, trans-fat-free future."
"If I had known that KFC uses an unnatural frying oil, and that their food was so high in trans fat, I would have reconsidered my choices," Hoyte said.
Hoyte and the consumer group are seeking class-action status for the lawsuit and asking a judge to let Hoyte represent anyone who ate at a Washington, D.C.-area KFC in 2004 and 2005. Along with stopping KFC from using oil with trans fats, they are asking for a variety of economic damages.
The Food and Drug Administration says trans fat raises bad cholesterol. The government agency this year started requiring food labels to list trans fats.
The lawsuit is the second time in the last three years that KFC and the Center for Science in the Public Interest have crossed paths.
KFC settled a complaint filed by the group with the Federal Trade Commission in 2004 over ads claiming its fried chicken was compatible with then-popular low-carb diets.
Under the settlement, KFC also was barred from running advertisements saying that eating its food is healthier than eating another food unless it can back the claims up scientifically.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/13/kf....ap/index.html
I like fried chicken!
What a joke. People should look into these things if theyre worried about them. Making fatty food is not illegal, thus no realistic suit. Unless KFC withheld information, or made it difficult to obtain, this is another baseless attempt to remove any personal-responsibility.
Its not illegal to make something you smoke that gives you cancer.Making fatty food is not illegal, thus no realistic suit
no lawsuits there either eh?
There is a big difference in something that will make you fat versus something that is a known carcinogen. If Pepsi-Cola was putting Benzene in their soda (for example),there would be legal standing.
Both kill you over a long period of time.There is a big difference in something that will make you fat versus something that is a known carcinogen
No difference.
Carcinogens can kill you over a short period of time. Big difference.
So can what they put in the food,
First it was Cigarettes, now its "Big Food"
Then itll be Big Oil, Big Ice Cream,
more lawyers looking for more money.
bull lawsuits.
Us oil companies are already legally liable for any cancer causing substances we handle. Benzene and MTBE (which is no longer allowed for gasoline blending) are the most notable.
has anyone seen that billboard on 35 south near The Forum that has pamala anderson saying boycott kfc.
You should boycot KFC for no other reason than they taste like .
yeah... i got no beef with fried chicken. popeyes is better though. homeade of course, is best. kfc is a-ok with me!
KFC is decent in moderation.
Their new commercials with the chicken mashed corn and sauce bowl sounds disgusting though.
PETA's beefs with KFC, some sound legit, some sound like bull .
i agree about their new mixed bowl.. it looks absolutely disgusting.
ain't nothin wrong with some fried chicken
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