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Not-so-Happy Meals?
- Dec 16 2010
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On Wednesday, a consumer group filed a lawsuit against fast food giant McDonalds, taking umbrage with the way the company markets its Happy Meals to kids. As most humans on the planet are aware, said marketing is tareted at kids by focussing on the hip-factor of the cheap toy included in the meal.The plaintiffs assert that the company should either offer a healthy, lower-calorie option, or change their advertising.
According to the California Report, the "Center for Science in the Public Interest (one of the plaintiffs) alleges that McDonald's violates California law with 'inherently deceptive and unfair' advertising." According to a Good Morning America, "fast food companies have spent $520 million on advertising and toys for kids meals."
Sarah Palin and various detractors think parents should be the ones making the food decisions-- and that it's not the government's job to curb this advertising or regulate these menus.
In in defense, McDonald's says that parents love the healthy kids meals, whose offerings include mechnically seperated meat products.
What are your thoughts?
2 Comment(s) for "Not-so-Happy Meals?"
I think parents need to learn to say no to their kids. How many 8 year olds are driving/walking to McD's on their own?
Quit blaming everyone else for what is wrong with them. No one is making them go the fast food places. No one is requiring you buy junk food at the grocery store.
The kids are victims of idiot parents.
When I see that ad with Ronald McDonald holding the children's hands, I think of how he's leading them to eat hamburgers, french fries and soda pop. The pro-business lobby has fought every step of the way for decades any attempts to give kids healthy food choices. After many years, we just barely have gotten soda pop machines taken out of elementary schools! Can you believe they fought tooth and nail for 20 years to keep those soda pop machines in schools? Palin's deception is to make it appear she favors parent's rights, when the underlying truth is that she's in favor of profits for business at the expense of children's health.