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CNN reports that people who bought StarKist tuna between February 19, 2009 through October 31, 2014 can take home $25 in cash or $50 of tuna due to a class action lawsuit settlement claiming that StarKist put less tuna in their cans than advertised. Federal law requires 5 ounce cans to contain between 2.84-ounces and 3.23-ounces of tuna, depending on the type. The plaintiff, Patrick Hendricks, had independent testing done on the cans, determining that they had as much as 17.3 percent less tuna than the federally mandated minimum. StarKist must pay up to $8 million in cash and $4 million in food vouchers as part of the settlement in United States District Court in Northern California. StarKist did not admit fault but agreed to a settlement in which it will pay $8 million in cash and $4 million in vouchers to purchase StarKist tuna. People can sign up for the settlement at the lawsuit website. They don't need a receipt, but they will need to swear that they purchased the tuna.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @02:30PM
"Federal law requires 5 ounce cans to contain between 2.84-ounces and 3.23-ounces of tuna"
Why aren't they required to contain 5 ounces of tuna?
(Score: 2) by CRCulver on Saturday August 29 2015, @02:37PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Saturday August 29 2015, @05:21PM
So the can should be large enough to hold the full 5 oz of tuna, some amount of brine, and provide the needed gap.
Or they should sell it as 3 oz of tuna.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday August 29 2015, @05:48PM
So the can should be large enough to hold the full 5 oz of tuna, some amount of brine, and provide the needed gap.
Then they could sell it as an 8 oz can!
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Saturday August 29 2015, @02:52PM
Just add a little mercury to make up the difference.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 29 2015, @02:55PM
Because water. Unless it's freeze dried, all the food you buy contains water. Your ground beef, your canned or frozen vegetables, your fruits - everything. A five ounce can contains five ounces of something, you can probably bet on that safely. The question is, how many ounces of the contents is just water? Gubbermint figured that out long ago, and mandated that the cans must contain x amount of tune, leaving only enough room for y amount of water. Starkist apparently tried to squeeze 7 ounces of water into that five ounce can, and accidentally displaced the tuna that was already in the can.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday August 29 2015, @03:32PM
If you are in the USA (maybe west coast only) go buy: 1. A can of Starkist tuna. 2. A can of Trader Joe's tuna. Open them and you will immediately see what this lawsuit is about.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anne Nonymous on Saturday August 29 2015, @04:56PM
They changed the brand of chicken they sell at my supermarket last year. Now the packages say "may contain up to 12% broth", which means they just inject a little salt water in the chicken to bulk up it's weight, and have themselves a 10% price increase that no-one ever notices.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @05:03PM
I'd love to do this to my paycheck. Just put a line in the employment agreement "May contain up to 12% or more slacking off."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @06:21PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @05:10PM
What the actual fuck. This from ruanway, the vitriolic guy that a large percentage of the userbase thinks is an asshole because he is passionate about calling out bullshit when he sees it (ignoring whether or not it actually exists) and he is being polite on fish fraud. This is 100% out of character. Are you heavily invested in canned fish futures? What gives.
Accidentally my ass. That is what runaway would say in any other situation. He would go on a 500 word rant and inject 200 more per person that tries to refute it. Now it is all "apparently" and "accidentally". Please.
Are you sick? Loved one died? Or simply so goddamned tired of being fed up that it is simply easier to roll over? I am genuinely worried.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @05:27PM
Lol. I bet he's worked in a cannery or other food processing plant at least once.
Hot heads rarely get hot and bothered about stuff they actually understand.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 29 2015, @08:32PM
You ned to do "pacman -Syu sarcasm-font". Or apt-get, or whatever fits your distro.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @03:08PM
it seems like people are trying to make excuses for these lying scum. just put 5oz of tuna and then put in the rest of your BS. I don't care what the freakin' overall weight is. Put that too if you care to. Quit covering for your masters. Start embarrassing the management of these NWO whores in public, or worse depending on the violation.
now you can't even find tuna without gmo soy in it in some stores. They were already adding some chemical(can't remember the name right now) under the guise of keeping it fresh. what it really did was make it pinker and hold water so they could sell more water. could be related to this guy's findings. oh and it would give you ass cancer, but the FDA says that's ok if you can make up some BS justification and there's no natural replacement to serve said BS function.