![]() "It's a question of informing the consumers," he said. ![]() His lawyer, Samuel Hirsch, said the multibillion-dollar fast food industry has an obligation to warn consumers of the dangers of eating from their menus. "They never explained to me what I was eating," Barber said on ABC's Good Morning America. He claims the fast food restaurants, where Barber says he used to eat four or five times a week even after suffering a heart attack, did not properly disclose the ingredients of their food and the risks of eating too much. He filed a class action lawsuit on Wednesday in the New York State Supreme Court in the Bronx on behalf of an unspecified number of other obese and ill New Yorkers who also feast on fast food.īarber's lawsuit is the first broad-based action taken against the fast food industry for allegedly contributing to obesity. ![]() N E W Y O R K, J- An overweight Bronx man wants four famous fast food chains to pay for serving him the finger-licking food that helped make him fat.Ĭaesar Barber, 56, a maintenance worker who weighs about 270 pounds and stands 5-foot-10, claims McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC jeopardized his health with their greasy, salty fare. ![]()
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