Update (1:44 p.m. August 3): Yesterday, I linked to a story about a Jackson County jury not siding with a former Blockbuster employee who claimed that popping bags of microwave popcorn damaged her lungs. A reader pointed out the ailment in question is called "bronchiolitis obliterans," or "popcorn lung." I'd never heard of popcorn lung before. Its symptoms are like asthma and supposedly linked to inhaling the vapors from a butter flavoring called diacetyl. The cases have ended anywhere from $20 million judgments to being successfully defended -- like the Jackson County one. In some of these cases, the popcorn eaters were inhaling up to seven bags a day. After hearing all of this, I'm going to lay off.
off the hook ... for now.
Original Story (1 p.m. August 2): Orville
Orville Redenbacher is
Redenbacher's popcorn isn't responsible for damaging a former
Blockbuster employee's lungs, according to a Jackson County jury.
The
Daily Record in Kansas City reports that Elaine Khoury
blamed her "permanent lung disease" on popping and eating a couple of
bags of microwave popcorn from ConAngra Foods Inc. while working at
Blockbuster. But she wasn't just popping at work.
"But her trial, which started four weeks ago, also focused on her
exposure to the fumes while preparing two to three bags of microwave
popcorn at home over a 10-year period," The Daily Record reports.
Khoury
reportedly vowed to appeal the verdict.
Makes me want to throw out the funky smelling microwave popcorn I have at
home.
Editor's note: This story has been corrected from an original
version.
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yeah, with talk like that you were probably someone hoping to get a piece of the pie, yourself. but thats okay cause i feel great about my verdict, for Conagra...
everyone present could not believe the verdict came back in favor of conagra. someone somehow didn't take the evidence or judges verdict instruction into consideration. makes you wonder--were the jurors that stupid or was there some sort of other factors involved.
Just like to give a big low five to all of you intellectually sub-Forest Gump jurors who let the popcorn industry off the hook. But, what the heck, you were chosen out the jury pool because the defense wanted the dumbest people they could find on that jury.
We are all in danger now. Diacetyl will still be used in a wide variety of consumer products because of you dumbasses.
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