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Fast food companies could stop this if they simply made their food healthier to eat. Instead they insist on using the cheapest processed garbage they can find to make their products. They continue to help propagate animal abuse and destruction of rain forest. Those companies can fall off the face of the Earth for all I care. They do no good what so ever and anyone who can't live without a Big Mac needs to re-access where they are in life.

Or, parents could feed their kids this stuff on the rarest of occasions and not every day or several times a week. If parents would be parents, then there'd be no need for a ban on Ronald McDonald.

People need to stop pointing the finger at the fast food joints and start pointing them at the parents of these children. It's a choice to either eat right or eat garbage. Simple as that.

As much as I'd love to place all the blame on parents I can't. Healthy food is very expensive and a parent working full time doesn't always have the means to cook food for their kids, especially single parents. It's mainly lower income families who consume this food in large quantities and it's because they can buy their kid a whole meal for 3 dollars. I see why the need for fast food is there it's really a matter of upping the quality on it instead of playing the blame game. In a perfect world we'd all be on a level playing field and we could blame the parents for feeding their kids this stuff but sadly that isn't the case.

Well, there are also other fast food options that aren't so bad. Subway (claims at least) to be better for you. To be honest, I'm surprised places like McDonalds haven't tried healthier alternatives...there's money to be made, and really for them isn't that what it's all about.

McDonald's has f**king salad and it is delicious.

As long as it's better than Wendy's Caesar side salad....that thing is gross. (Didn't use to be....:()

Has anyone tried BK's Veggie Burger?

If people cannot afford to feed their kids, they shouldn't have had children. If you want to raise a healthy child, provide healthy food for him or her. If you cannot afford to buy the food you desire, you should have thought harder about whether it was responsible to bring a child into the world.

I agree with Samhain 100%. The choice to eat this crap falls to the parents. If it's all they can afford, they is not the fast food industry's problem. Have less kids or have no at all if you cannot provide what they need or what you want to give them. Either that or shut up and be happy. Stop blaming others for your misfortune if its your fault

They're also far from healthy.

I picked one at random...

Though I do agree that parents should be more responsible on what they feed their children I do not completely agree with your statement.

So what? only wealthy can have children? Think about it....food itself is expensive not just the healthy stuff either. Also children are getting fed unhealthy diets in public schools as well....so what then? I cannot afford to send a child to a private school then I shouldn't have children?

Realistically you can do your best in a world where the healthy stuff (fruit and vegetables fresh of coarse) are expensive.

Also some people have children when things are very well off...but things happen an people lose jobs/ income. So not always can you just "think it out better" when it comes to having children. there is no way to predict the future.

However, I do agree that some people shouldn't have children but still do.

Maybe kids just need to play outside more. I remember my pals and I rode bikes, climbed trees, and crawled through the water drainage ditches pretending to be some heroes from show we watched...can't pin it down...Ninja Mutant Teen Lizards, maybe? and i was fairly thin until I grew up and got way to much of a home-body.

There's all kinds of issues at play here. However, the op point was banning Ronald McDonald because it encourages kids to want to eat at McDonalds.

Well, if you are such a crappy parent that you can't tell your kid no......you have bigger problems.

When I was a kid I wanted McDonalds every day. Every time I saw the sign. (Maybe they should ban that). My parents said no every day. I accepted it and ate what was given to me. My family was poor as crap back then. My parents couldn't even afford to buy my brother and I McDonalds. $20 a week was our food budget. I remember it well.

All kinds of issues for sure.....but parents have to be able to say no.

Thats what I'm saying.

My parents, too, were very poor and we had the same thing to eat days at a time (which is probably why I dislike leftovers so much now) My parents would make a huge pot of something like beans and rice and we would eat that for a week! I very seldom got fast food or went out to eat and after hearing a trillion times that we simply couldn't afford it I accepted the fact.

Of coarse now it is cheaper to buy a fast food meal in some situations.

They should just have them make it more healthy. Banning this or that character will not stop children wanting fast food! Children want tons of things that they shouldn't (or can't) have and that will never change.

The sodium in that alone is enough to make it horrid for you.

Just watched a news report yesterday about a women who got diagnosed with cancer because of it she lost her job and now she's stuck with two kids she can't take care of. Is that her fault to? Your post is extremely ignorant.

I notice the "blame parents for everything" comments tend to come from people who have either never had kids of their own or never taken care of a child. It's certainly not as easy as everyone seems to think it is. Especially if you have to work a job, like most people do, and can't spend every second watching them. And no not everyone can afford a nanny either.

You're right on that point, Spit. Having kids isn't easy, but controlling and monitoring what they eat is. Don't give them fast food everyday. Yes, times are tough, and the prices of things are going up, but there are limits that one can set. You can't blame Ronald McDonald for how your kids turn out. And anyway, I think they do have healthier alternatives like apple dippers that the kids can have instead of fries and milk or juice to substitute for a drink. Learn to do that, and your kids will be fine.

This whole thing is just ridiculous.

That is very silly. The main issue isn't the clown, who I always found creepy even as a kid, it's the food. My whole point has been make the food better. This solves more issues then kids eating it, it helps over weight adults too. No reason not to, no reason they can't. They do offer "healthy" alternatives but even those aren't always that great. Their salads are a joke. Salad really isn't that healthy for you anyway people just think it is. Then they throw all kinds of crap on top of it which doesn't help matters.

I took a Nutrition class where we actually looked at all the major fast food chains and deconstructed their menus. We rarely found items one could deem healthy because even if the calories were low the sodium or sugar was extremely high. And Sub Way isn't healthy either. If I recall their Veggie sandwich was voted the worst for you by the author of "Eat This, Not That".

my mother is a single parent, working long hours with little pay. She had no problems feeding me real food.

junk food was a rarity and something special to take home with a rental VHS

McDonald's put oatmeal on their menu and their oatmeal had a higher sugar content than a Snickers bar. That's a problem.

I don't suppose there's something akin to a nutrition class required for expecting parents, is there? I'm honestly asking.