Stephanie Strom wrote an article on August 18th talking about the law suits against false information food companies are giving the buyers. Strom shows the reader that you can not trust everything in labels. Many food companies lie about the ingredients that is contained in the food to make it seem healthy or better for the buyer to eat. Strom begins the article by stating the fact that after the lawyers took made a lost of money from the Tobacco law suits, they decided to go after the food companies. The lawyers keep trying to say that food makers are misleading consumers and violating federal regulations by labeling the products wrong as said by Strom. However, Strom also shows the reader the other said of the law suit, from the food companies. They say that the drive for all of these suits are just for money and not actual care for the misleading ingredients possibly killing someone. And as Strom said, you can not just fill these kinds of law suits anywhere. Most law suits have been filed in California where consumers tend to join the lawyers side instead of the food companies.
The purpose Strom wrote this article was not only to inform the reader about the law suits against the food companies but also to tell the reader that they can not trust everything about the food from reading the back of the package. Strom goes back and forth stating different points of views allowing the reader to choose a side if he chose to. Strom ends the article by a quote from Mr. Gore, giving the article a little of playfulness to change the serious tone the article had throughout the story.
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