EPTNever once did they state that nutella is healthy. What they suggested is healthy is "a balanced meal, fruit, etc." Perhaps a person could infer that nutella is healthy from the ad but you should not be able to sue a company for what you happen to infer from an ad.
Nutella loses $3.5million lawsuit - Page 7
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liberal
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Never once did they state that nutella is healthy. What they suggested is healthy is "a balanced meal, fruit, etc." Perhaps a person could infer that nutella is healthy from the ad but you should not be able to sue a company for what you happen to infer from an ad. | ||
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Kazahk
United States385 Posts
1.buy nutella 2.feed nutella to children 3.??? 4.profit! seems legit :p | ||
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Cereb
Denmark3388 Posts
1) This lady shouldn't get any kind of money. Stop paying people millions for being idiots please. 2) It reminds me how companies and advertising are so full of shit. I really want companies like this to be punished for their retarded advertisements, but it shouldn't go to some random idiot who is wasting everyone's time and making an entire legal system / country look like crap. If anything they should be forced to pay way more money for all the bs but have the money go to something useful like, i dunno, health care, starvation, poor people, whatever! Just not some random idiot who thought something that is 99 sugar fat and chemicals would be healthy for you. Jesus! | ||
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Marti
552 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:27 semantics wrote: msleading people is to get more money is morally wrong in my book, just to crack down on flat out lies although easy to point out isn't following the spirit of such laws. Misleading people isn't always about explicit things. If i put on a job application i went to say Berkley and dance around graduating, it's strongly implied that i went to UC Berkeley and hold a degree from there, that would still be considers lieing on your job application would it not? Just because you don't flat out say something and let other people do the work doesn't mean you haven't done something wrong. A lie of omission is still a lie. THIS On April 28 2012 09:27 xDaunt wrote: Everyone thinks that lawsuits are abusive until they get fucked over by someone and realize that they need a lawyer to set things right. There is a reason why the system exists. THIS On April 28 2012 09:27 Talin wrote: And by the way, being charged only $3.5 million for advertising an unhealthy product as healthy is a joke. And finally this : On April 28 2012 09:27 MilesTeg wrote: What's sad is people's reactions here. We got so used to bullshit marketing that we expect companies to get away with anything. I'm sorry, if your product is a fat greasy chocolate paste (which I absolutely love by the way, I eat it with a spoon), you shouldn't be allowed to advertise it as something healthy. If this sort of lawsuit punishes blatant marketing lies then it's a good thing. And please, for god's sake people stop it with the " lol only in america " every half decent country has laws against this and thank god they do, because without those nothing stops big companies from manipulating you. Which they already do for the most part. Yes the average person knows nutella isn't healthy. But a big company shouldn't be allowed to trick you or your subconcious into thinking it is. If you got told 100 times a day " nutella is healthy " you'd end up believing it. Edit : it's amazing how people just show up and comment without even reading what other posters have said, or sometimes without even reading the op. The youtube video alone must have been posted three times already. | ||
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mindspike
Canada1902 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:30 PanN wrote: Nutella is easily the most overrated thing I have ever tried in my life. Disgusting. Can't believe this girl got 3.5 million dollars in damages though, thats some real bullshit right there. HOLY SHIT...for the last time. This lady did not get 3.5 million....its a class action lawsuit....there's hundreds of people filing $6 claims as we speak. | ||
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Hesmyrr
Canada5776 Posts
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
edit: And for purposes of clarification, I'm aware that she is not getting all the money. But still seriously? | ||
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Blennd
United States266 Posts
On April 28 2012 08:58 Talin wrote: IF they indeed advertised Nutella as healthy, there is absolutely nothing retarded about this. In fact I find it to be an extremely satisfying outcome. Don't get me wrong, if the woman actually believed that, she's clearly delusional. But that doesn't even matter. Then get rid of the core. Companies that lie should be punished for it, there's your line. It doesn't matter how obvious and transparent the lie is, they should still answer for it. Couldn't agree more. Seems a little silly in the case of Nutella, but the many many court cases where companies get sued over potentially more harmful but much more subtle deception don't get the press. Maybe the people who find this ridiculous really like reading all the latest medical journals, but personally I'd rather just set up a system where corporations are held to a basic level of responsibility for their advertising. | ||
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Marti
552 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:35 Hesmyrr wrote: Wish I would have thought of a idea, free one million for the win. Seriously. If there was chance at such lawsuit I know is likely to succeed, I'd take the opportunity in heartbeat no matter what others think of me. Where did you read that she got one million exactly ? Anyone who ate nutella can claim a part of the 3.5 millions, there's probably a ton of people who already filed a lawsuit to get a piece of that money. | ||
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m00nchile
Slovenia240 Posts
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Tewks44
United States2032 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:31 dAPhREAk wrote: oh, better than wikipedia, i found the actual label. all of that healthy goodness~! ![[image loading]](http://iamnotafoodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/nutrition-facts-label.jpg) The Nutella commercial is without a doubt misleading. They claim Nutella is part of a balanced breakfast with fruit and a glass of milk, provided you eat 2 slices of bread with 10g of Nutella each, totaling 20 grams (this was in the fine print). Considering the serving size for one serving is 57 grams, the nature of this ad is manipulative. Nutella is only part of a balanced breakfast if you eat an absurdly small amount (35% of one serving) of it, yet on the commercial they showed the bread was well covered with a thick layer of Nutella, and on top of that they claimed you could have TWO slices and still be healthy! sounds great, right? Yeah, sure she could have read the nutrition information, but believe it or not, most people are not adept at eyeing out grams of Nutealla. She probably assumed the commercial was in good faith, which it was not. | ||
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lodeet
United States147 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:31 dAPhREAk wrote: oh, better than wikipedia, i found the actual label. all of that healthy goodness~! People will believe anything. Word of mouth is the most common source of information and it is really sad that 99% of people don't do independent research. I see people buy things all the time that are advertised as "fresh" "lite" "clean" "low fat" "diet" and so on and actually believe it's a healthy product without even reading the nutrional label. People need to wise up and realize all our nutrients can and should be obtained from the earth and its that simple. Eating raw diets is what you should do not all this processed shit full of additives and cancer causing chemicals designed to create health problems. And while I don't think it was done on purpose it is just sad that even after they realized the harm they cause there is nothing done to prevent it because it is an astoundingly large profitable industry that branches out to medical and pharmacutical industries as well. | ||
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kwizach
3658 Posts
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
Basically, if you are selling crap and trying to portray it as not crap by throwing money at TV companies you are deceiving your customers. There's nothing morally wrong about them trying to get back at you. | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
After spending a few weeks in China watching the advertisements there, I just got so sick of people preying on the uneducated to make quick money. I remember this one advertisement for a brain strengthening helmet. Sure most people in China know to stay away from that, but a few, especially the ones moving to cities might buy some and permanently damage the minds of their children. South Park recently had an episode on the jewelry channels and how they tried to make money off of senility. I don't want our advertising to become like that. Without these laws there would be scams everywhere. Not just on TV but also on the web, on the streets. You wouldn't be able to trust anything. | ||
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Tewks44
United States2032 Posts
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drbrown
Sweden442 Posts
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TheRPGAddict
United States1403 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:41 lodeet wrote: People will believe anything. Word of mouth is the most common source of information and it is really sad that 99% of people don't do independent research. I see people buy things all the time that are advertised as "fresh" "lite" "clean" "low fat" "diet" and so on and actually believe it's a healthy product without even reading the nutrional label. People need to wise up and realize all our nutrients can and should be obtained from the earth and its that simple. Eating raw diets is what you should do not all this processed shit full of additives and cancer causing chemicals designed to create health problems. And while I don't think it was done on purpose it is just sad that even after they realized the harm they cause there is nothing done to prevent it because it is an astoundingly large profitable industry that branches out to medical and pharmacutical industries as well. All natural and organic != healthy. Would you drink snake venom or ignore whey protein? | ||
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yurta
Canada91 Posts
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liberal
1116 Posts
Do people seriously think this company deserves to be sued because they showed too much spread on a piece of toast? | ||
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