I'm sorry but passing a massive umbrella protection against lawsuits is utterly fascist, it would effectively give the fast food industry a blank cheque to do whatever they want. If such lawsuits are meritless, then courts will find in their favour or throw the cases out of court, no harm, no foul.

Passing a bill to give legal protection to an entire industry runs counter to the very reason people prefer to live in a constitutional democracy where the government and corporations don't weild total power.

The market is already causing McDonald's to alter their menus to suit consumer tastes, and the mad cow scare will help that along as well, as some people realize what shit they're putting in their bodies and what it is doing to them.

But if the fast food industry acted similarly to the tobacco industry in their business practices, there's no reason why they deserve any kind of protection now.