The purpose of these lawsuits is to force fast food corporations to disclose their business practices, food formulations, ingredients and marketing plans. Dr. Phil is missing the point. Might I add he's pretty chubby and probably likes his bigmac and fries.

It's similar to lawsuits against tobacco companies. Without litigation the public would not know the poisonous ingredients that tobacco companies add to their products to make them more addictive, regardless of the fact that these ingredients kill people.

Both types of companies continue to assert that the use of their products is freedom of choice. Quite true, but we all have a right to be an informed consumer. Many food corporations have been caught red-handed lying about their ingredients. Therefore it takes litigation to crowbar the truth into public view.