Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com)

jenningsthecat writes: As reported here back in February, the CBC, (Canada's national broadcaster), revealed DNA test results which indicated the chicken used in Subway Restaurants' sandwiches only contained about 50% chicken. Now, Subway is suing the public broadcaster for $210 million, because "its reputation and brand have taken a hit as a result of the CBC reports." The suit claims that "false statements [...] were published and republished, maliciously and without just cause or excuse, to a global audience, which has resulted in pecuniary loss to the plaintiffs."

Personally, my working assumption here is that the CBC report is substantially correct. It will be interesting to see how the case plays out -- but should this have happened at all? Regulatory agencies here in Canada seem to be pretty good when it comes to inspecting meat processing facilities. Should they also be testing the prepared foods served by major restaurant chains to ensure that claims regarding food content are true and accurate?

Comments

Soy tastes like chicken

[turkeydance]

just like lots of other things

Re: Irrelevant Studies

[Imrik]

Maybe the other fast food places use chicken meat from cannibal chickens.

Re: Ironically

[Maritz]

Look up food babe. You'd love her. She shamelessly self-promotes by looking for ingredients that sound a bit science-y and then scaremongering them.

Re:Two studies

[arglebargle_xiv]

They did two independent studies and both had the same result.

There's also a litte-known third study, done several years earlier, that confirms the results.