Sunday, September 16, 2012

Sunday Globe Specials: The Poor Lawyers

"A few months after finishing college, Angela Achen sat in a hospital waiting room and took stock of her assets: a degree in art history, a knack for women’s studies, and almost no marketable job skills....  

(Blog editor's chin slumps to chest as he frowns and empathizes with the feeling)

Tough choices for law schools amid jobs crisis

Yeah, the corporate and money mouthpiece tells me poor law firms.

Well, maybe not:

"Lawyers take on big food manufacturers over labeling" by Stephanie Strom  |  New York Times, August 19, 2012

NEW YORK — The lawyers have been searching for big paydays in business, scoring more modest wins against car companies, drug makers, brokerage firms, and insurers. Now, they have found the next target: food manufacturers.

More than a dozen lawyers who took on the tobacco companies have filed 25 cases against industry players like ConAgra Foods, PepsiCo, Heinz, General Mills, and Chobani that stock pantry shelves and refrigerators across America.

The suits, filed over the last four months, assert that food makers are misleading consumers and violating federal regulations by wrongly labeling products and ingredients....  

Didn't the Globe win an award for mislabeling of fish?

The food companies counter that the suits are without merit, another example of litigation gone wild and driven largely by the lawyers’ financial motivations....  

That's what drives every AmeriKan institution these days.

While the lawyers are being questioned about their motives, they are not alone in pursuing the food industry. In recent weeks, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has filed two lawsuits....

Food companies are already fighting a legal battle in the state of California, spending tens of millions of dollars to scuttle a ballot initiative that would require them to specify genetically modified ingredients....

Oh, how rarely do you see that term in the new$paper.  

And when you do it reads like an industry advertisement. Just ignore the reduced yields, the Indian farmers committing suicide, and the possibly unforeseen consequences yet to come (birth defects, mutations, impotence?).

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I wouldn't have salmon for supper tonight, readers.  If you do maybe you ought to go see a lawyer.