Making ‘Big Food’ Pay For Obesity (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

In the 1990s, the American tobacco industry was reined in and made to pay, big-time, for the health consequences of cigarettes and more.  An epic quarter trillion-dollar legal settlement in a suit brought by states to make Big Tobacco pay.  Now there’s a push on to do the same with Big Food.  To make the American food industry pay for the devastating health consequences of soaring American obesity.  To sue Big Food.  Opinions are all over the map on whether it’s justified.  Whether it can or should be done.  This hour On Point:  the push to sue Big Food for American fat. / Tom Ashbrook

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/02/17/big-food-obesity-tobacco