Seattle attorney Harish Bharti is currently busy soliciting clients to bring a class action lawsuit against McDonald’s on behalf of vegetarians. As you may have heard, McDonald’s for years maintained that its french fries were vegetarian, but it turned out they used a beef byproduct as part of the flavoring. A solicitation on an animal rights web site reads,
If you are a vegetarian and have purchased McDonald’s fries within the last 11 years believing them to contain no animal ingredients based on the deceptive media campaign by McDonald’s, you may be eligible to participate in this class-action lawsuit. Please complete, sign and mail your declaration directly to Mr. Bharti.
Hmmm… why should animal rights activists have all the fun? If McDonald’s was being deceptive when it forgot to mention that its “vegetarian” french fries actually contained an infinitesimally small amount o beef extract, that pales in comparison to the snow job that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Humane Society of the United States have been pulling off for the last couple decades.
If McDonald’s had half the temerity that HSUS does, they’d have been touting their Big Mac as vegan!
Source:
Class Action Suit Filed Against Deceptive McDonald’s. The Progressive Animal Welfare Society, Press Release, 2001.