As the public continues to chew on (and, largely, spit out) the idea of holding restaurants legally responsible for their patrons’ dietary choices, the Columbia Missourian asked its own local experts for their opinions.
“I believe this is the most litigious society in the history of mankind and it’s only going to get worse. I suppose someday that if students don’t come to class they can start suing us because they won’t learn anything… This is just a ludicrous shifting of the blame to an inappropriate place.”
And Amy Bowers Ebertz, a University of Missouri psychologist, noted: “There is not a direct… one-on-one cause and effect for obesity. Things like genetics and environment all factor into it; because of this I don’t think it’s fair to blame the fast food companies.”