[UCFPhiDelt]

First, let me say that I hate oreos. I never acquired a taste for the cookies and I can't understand why people like them for the life of me.

As for the lawsuit, it does not ask that adults be restricted in their consumption of Oreo cookies in any way. The suits seeks to have the cookies kept away from children. The suit contends that the trans fats in Oreos are dangerous and that children consume it. The cookies are inagruably marketed towards children. As all of you have posted here on the thread, you are adults and will make your own choices on food consumption. A child does not have the same rights or intellectiual abilities to make these choices. As for whether Trans fat's are bad for you, there seems to be little doubt of that by most of the medical community. The reason you don't know they are in foods you commonly eat are for one main reason: MONEY. Trans fat's are cheap to put into products. Far cheaper than other fat based replacements. The food comapnies have determined it is cheaper to fight food labeling regulations in court than it is to replace the Trans fat's. This has nothing to do with the FDA knowing it is bad for you or with the food companies knowing it is bad for you. They don't really care about you. As long as you keep buying their food and they can keep the labeling regulations tied up in court, the better for them. If you think Nabisco or the other food companies care about you or your kids, you are sorely mistaken.

Note: It's a great strategy and as an accounting major, I would do the same thing for my companies.