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All American Burger is a nationwide fast food chain that competes with? McDonald's, Burger? King, and? Wendy's. It actively targets young fast food customers by keeping its restaurants open late and offering edgy products like the? "Cardiac Burger," a burger that contains more than a? day's allowance of? fat, sodium, and cholesterol. This approach has generated considerable? criticism, but the company points out that it displays nutritional information for all its? products, and that any rational person would realize that products like the Cardiac Burger should be consumed only on special occasions. In? practice, though, few of the people who order the Cardiac Burger do so in moderation.

Which of the following principles would most justify All American? Burger's position?

A. When a food product is? unhealthy, consumers should not assume that it is safe to consume it in moderation.

B. A company is not responsible for behavior that it does not actively encourage.

C. A company is responsible only for the reasonable uses of its product.

D. A company should not be responsible for the health effects of its product when those effects could not have been predicted.

E. A company should not offer products that are unhealthy even when consumed in moderation.