Lawsuit Trouble for KFC Over Cooking Oil

June 14, 2006 | Posted by Allison as Tid Bits & News at 10:04 am | Comments »

KFC Bucket.jpg It looks like bad news for KFC as well as any veteran customers of the fried chicken, fast food chain. Kentucky Fried Chicken was accused yesterday of knowingly using cooking oil that causes coronary heat disease in its American restaurants, no word as of yet if this cooking oil is being used in KFC’s outside the U.S.

Served with a multimillion dollar class action lawsuit by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, KFC was quick to react with a statement.

A spokesperson for KFC’s parent company Yum! Brands stated, “This is a frivolous lawsuit completely without merit. We intend to vigorously defend our position.”

CSPI, a not-profit organization that campaigns for healthy eating, was ready with their own statement.

Executive director Michael Jacobson said: “By frying in such a dangerous oil, KFC is making its unsuspecting consumers’ arteries Extra Crispy.”

Apparently the American Kentucky Fried Chicken chains are using a very cheap, partially
hydrogenated cooking oil that is high in trans fat, noted by the US & Drug Administration as being a very harmful substance to the human body.

Well, it looks like I’ll have to give up Colonel Harland Sanders & my Sunday KFC bucket.

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