Should a restaurant have to pay to send 16 people to India to purify their souls after unwittingly serving them meat?

0_o is all I have to say about that.

My gut reaction is…... WTF? If they were that upset about eating meat, they coulda just stuck their fingers down their throats….

McDonalds acknowledged that their fries had a highly concentraited meat extract added to them.
Do you think they should have to pay for all the vegans and vegitarians to go clean their souls?

Whatever happens in the law suit, IMO it would be cheaper to bring water from the Ganges here than to send 16 people India. WTF!! are my sentiments too.

@filmfann I didn’t state an opinion, just asking for yours!

Yay, religion again wreaks havoc on common sense.

No.

No. And hopefully the jury will see that too.

well, I agree with the appellate court that the suit should be allowed to go forward. But I’d be shocked if they won for the inadvertent, accidental serving of the food.

And one person discovered it, why do the other 15 need to purify themselves?

I drank some pretty bad beer last week. Can I sue the bar to pay for my trip to Germany so I can drink some good beer?

I wonder how hard it would be to build a Soul-Wash. Kind of like a carwash, but with water from the Ganges, with choir music, and the wafer and grape-juice happy ending.

I think the diners should have put more care into what they were eating!

I feel bad for the people that ate the meat filled appetizers. I’ve worked with enough people of the Hindu faith to know how really important this is to some of them. The group made arrangements for a vegetarian meal, and the restaurant agreed to it.

It seems understandable how a lawsuit might come about, despite not knowing all of the details. There is a group of people who are rightfully upset. There is a restaurant that admitted that they made a mistake. There is a lawyer willing to take on the case. The story brings about awareness for the needs/desires of those that are minorities in the US.

Should the restaurant have to pay? It is impossible to say, at least for me. Without being well-versed in the law, better understanding of the Hindu religion, and not being privy to the details of the actual court case, I just don’t feel comfortable answering this specific question.

I would be shocked if the restaurant was ordered fund this cleansing pilgrimage. Imagine how dangerous the precedent would be.

To put this in perspective, my girlfriend pointed out that to a Hindu, this is like eating your dead grandmother!

While, as I said before, I don’t think the restaurant should have to pay, it is pretty serious for a devout Hindu.