Group Wants to Ban Toys in Happy Meals
 

Our law makers are actually rolling this idea in their heads. A group of "watchdogs" wants to sue McDonald's for apparently using deceptive marketing practices towards kids to encourage them to make unhealthy eating habits.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6608981.shtml

WTF? Last I look, it should be up to the parent to decide what a kid should and shouldn't eat, and I don't know about you all, but the MCD in my area code offer healthy alternatives such as apples, yogurt and milk in substitution.

What do you all think about this crap?

The parents have the money. Do their children's desires control them? Everybody wants somebody else to responsible for their kids. Maybe that's just the home schoolers in me.:lol:

Wow...it must be contagious!! LOL...Nowdays at Spain they want to make a law too Prohibiting to buy sweets/cakes/candies inside the college (the pupils will have to go out out to buy them ... O-o !! I wonder if they will leave them take the candies/cakes from home or if they will begin to register the pupils looking for a forbidden/prohibited sweet cake?...

And they banned cigarettes and booze for minors long time ago.

Bastards, they are violating freedom of our children!

oh god Epic Fail!

I'd say ban the toys for no other reason than they're crappy toys.
*shakes cane*

Because this is of equal severity, right?

But of course! They are all preventable causes of death.

McD's does have healthy alternatives to their food. This is just a ridiculous law.

Fu*k all that. Just because some people are sh*tty parents doesn't mean kids everywhere should get screwed out of their happy-meal toys. When I was a kid, I loved some of my happy-meal trinkets as much as my real toys, now some know-it-all ass holes are trying to fix something that isn't even broken.

They already banned trans-fats and made the fries taste like sh*t, they axed every old McDonalds character except Ronald and I'm pretty sure "PlayPlaces" are extinct... let's leave the little chunks of platic alone.

When i take my kids for a trip to MacDonalds half the time they forget to put the toy in the box. And it doesn't worry them they don,t notice.

We still have a few playplaces around here. Other than that, I agree. The fries are poo.

Yeah I Agree Screw Mcdonalds........Down With Commercialism...

Healthier choices or not leave the toys on the Happy meals. If it's an issue about the toys being too costly to produce it would be different. And in terms of parents saying no to their kids it's just a matter of time before they say yes. Kids are Mcd's cheapest advertisers. Hell my sister and I were hooked on that syuff until I was like 11 and she was 16, we would not take no for an answer when our parents asked where to eat on the weekends. We had a massive toy collection from mcdonalds. Without the toys though I doubt we would have gone that much. Now I really try to avoid it as much as possible.

That was the only thing I looked forward to at fast food joints when I was a kid. I loved those lumps of plastic. (Still owns some of those lumps of plastic.)

Exactly. There is wayyyy too much micromanaging in this country. Toys in Happy Meals don't make kids obese. The kids aren't the ones buying the meals, are they? Parents are still allowed to say no, even though I know that's being thrown to the wayside.

Don't ruin it for the kids whose parents know the meaning of control. I still have some of my old toys, too.

A lot of the time people eat that crap because they have to. It's the cheapest food and happens to also be some of the worst for you. It's a sad state of affairs. If they really want to fix the problem they should make healthy food cheaper.

I spent 12 dollars for a rack of beef ribs that lasted me 3 nights the other day and 20 something on a bag of apples, some plums and a thing of berries. Chemical free fruit is stupidly expensive and good veggies are as well.

But Happy Meal's now have Hope in them...

Man, I just picked up a Happy meal yesterday while driving back from NY. It was a BOX happy meal too, I haven't gotten one of those in years. Plus? It had a Batman toy from Brave and the Bold and its awesome.