BE WK HW6

Corporate Responsibility

Research the case Pelman v. McDonald’s in which it was alleged that McDonald’s was partially responsible for the health problems associated with the obesity of children who eat MacDonald’s fast food.

Write a 2 page, APA style paper addressing the above issues while answering the following:

Should MacDonald’s and other fast-food restaurants be judged negligent for selling dangerous products, failing to warn consumers of the dangers of a high-fat diet, and deceptive advertising?

Some websites to look at regarding the McDonald’s obesity case:

• U.S. judge dismisses obesity suit vs. McDonald’s: http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/22/news/companies/mcdonalds/index.htm
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York Opinion: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/03-07166.PDF
• Food Fight: Obesity Raises Difficult Marketing Questions: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1149&CFID=2756464&CFTOKEN=80757050

Provide 3-5 APA style references both inline and at the end of the paper to support your analysis. Please write in 3^rd person.

Teacher Comments for paper

• ·         All paragraphs have to be at least 4 well-developed sentences
• ·         Please remember when describing information from your research, the information must be presented in the past tense because the work was in the past (i.e., Hitt (2014) stated). Please remember authors initials are never used in the text. . . only in the reference page.
• ·         Please remember the APA mechanics requirement where pronouns must be excluded for clarity and not to end or begin sentences with the word "it, but, or because" or prepositions, such as "for or to." Also, contractions are not appropriate in scholarly writing. Exclude: we, you, their, this, them, these, they, those
• Also, be careful on how you end sentences, not in verbs, prepositions, pronouns, or conjunctions... nouns are best for clarity.
• ·         Must have at least one peer-reviewed source from a Online Library source -- also needs to be within the last 5 years.