Woman says three bags of popcorn a day ruined her life
A New York woman has filed a lawsuit after her 16-year popcorn habit left her with permanent lung damage, the New York Post reports.
Agnes Mercado from Queens devoured two to three bags of Act II Lite microwave popcorn a day between 1991 and September 2007. The popcorn was flavored with diacetyl, a compound that gives food a buttery taste.
Workers who packaged the popcorn for manufacturer ConAgra Foods developed “popcorn lung,” an airway obstruction that does not respond to medicine.
The food giant dumped diacetyl from its recipe in 2007.
Mercado, just diagnosed last month, uses an oxygen tank and is “likely to require a lung transplant,” the Queens Supreme Court suit against ConAgra says.
I kind of wonder about a few things:
- Who the hell eats that much popcorn a day?
- Did she snort the thing?
- Is second-hand popcorn bad for your health?
- Will this set a precedent that will end up in NYC banning microwave popcorn from office buildings and college/university campuses?
- Will this force people to only eat it at designated areas away from pregnant women and children?
- Was she a walking fart bomb?
- Did farts steal all the air from her lungs?
Seriously, who the hell eats that much microwave popcorn without thinking it might be bad for their health? Imagine the constant farts and possible diarrhea! D:<
4 Comments
ClintJCL
Yes, blame the victim. Classy. Popcorn is one of the most filling foods for how few calories it is. A lot of america could stand to eat a big bag of popcorn instead of a 5-bite candy bar that has even more calories.
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Retrohelix
You have a point there, but you’re probably talking about plain popcorn, microwave popcorn on the other hand comes with too much salt, even the light versions, and the artificial butter is bad for your health in big quantities, I wonder why she never had a heart attack from all that salt and saturated fat…
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Phillip Lozano
Yes, very clever and all. I just love lung disease humor. And nothing is more hilarious than a totally unexpected side-effect from industrial poisons in our food. I doubt that, of all the health warnings this woman may have come across concerning saturated fat, high sodium, etc., not a single one depicted a scenario where eating POPCORN would DESTROY YOUR LUNGS.
Retrohelix
Well, that is true, nobody expects to get sick from something like popcorn, then again I have yet to meet another person with such fascination for popcorn. This is the problem when people don’t read the contents label, I’m sure it didn’t say “corn seeds and natural butter,” people don’t pay attention to what they eat nowadays.
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