Posted on 06/22/2010 12:29:56 PM PDT by HandsOffMyFreedom
Taking the Santa Clara County, Calif. Happy Meal toy ban to the national level, a radical consumer activist group is threatening to sue McDonald’s if it continues to include toys in kids meals.
“McDonald’s is the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children,” said Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) litigation director Stephen Gardner. “McDonald’s use of toys undercuts parental authority and exploits young children’s developmental immaturity—all this to induce children to prefer foods that may harm their health. It’s a creepy and predatory practice that warrants an injunction.”
Gardner couldn’t be more wrong in his tasteless attempt to equate McDonald’s with pedophiles. There are no “strangers” handing out Happy Meals to kids on the playground or at any McDonald’s franchise across the nation. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and legal guardians are making conscious decisions to purchase Happy Meals for their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews ...
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Man is my son going to be pissed when he finds out there are no more toys in a happy meal. I really don’t think these people know what they are dealing with. We are talking the rath of Kahn, folks, biblical proportions, cats and dogs sleeping together, an end to our world as we have always known it.
Hey America! How’s that hopey/changey thing workin’ for ya?
How?
“Daddy/Mommy I want a happy meal with a toy!”
Parent replies “No.”
Parental authority maintained.
Now I guess if I were a spineless whiney liberal I might need the government to protect me from having to tell my child no. But any actual PARENT, worthy of the name...
Reason number 78780237828948965389643892479283 for tort reform.
I going to sue them for intenionally inflicting emotional distress on my children who love the toys.
Those boxes of Wheaties and the Champions have been around how long...
And what about the Oscar Mayer Weiner toy campaign.Same time, different day, different product.
Let people make their own decisions....
Who knew there was a rash of unsupervised 5 year olds driving themselves to the park and accepting Happy Meal toys from Ronald McDonald?
It’s the same group of kids that go to the store and buy extra sugary cereal all on their own.
I can’t tell you how many times i’ve had someone argue with me about banning sugary cereal ads for kids. They look stunned when I would tell them, well.. don’t buy it for them if you don’t want them to eat it.
Back when Junior was little, he wanted the dinosaur toy in a box of Post cereal. I bought the cereal as an occasional treat but when we got home there wasn’t a toy inside. I called Post a dozen times over the course of six months (on principle, ya know) and they promised each time to send the toy but they never did. That was about 15 years ago and I have never bought another Post product and never will.
Leftists really hate successful businesses and will do everything to destroy them. How long before the leftist wackos sue McDonalds for making kids fat?
What I remember best were all those baseball cards from the 40’s and 50’s...that I tossed when I cleaned my room really, really good. I’d be a millionaire today. Ho Hum...
Why doesn’t someone follow these people and go see where they live. Spot everything they do wrong and call them out.
Not only are these parents control freaks, they’re also dumb. McDonald’s sells the apple dipper and grilled chicken salad with low fat vinegarette option at the same price of the hamburger and fries option. Hey, I guess in Obama’s America, you need to make your job seem as relevant as possible or else you’re going to be quickly unemployed.
The “stranger in the playground handing out candy to children” analogy is equally appropo to gubermint handing out goodies to illegal aliens to come here and stay and to Americans who don’t want to work...and even more addictive than McNuggets.
(At least for McNuggets , you have to go get them and pay for them. Gubermint checks just show up in your mail.)
I don’t suppose a parent could just say NO? No wonder we’re the “Party of NO”- we have to explain everything to these stupid freedom-hating adult children.
What part of the Public Interest is served by having tort lawyers on retainer?
Did they ask if I wanted any lawsuits threatened?
These nattering idiots need to get a life. Toys in Happy Meals - the Horror!
The only joy people like these “activists” get out of life is forcing others to do their bidding.
Let’s get real....Cereals, cracker jacks and just about every other product uses marketing tools....
Those boxes of Wheaties and the Champions have been around how long..
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Yep, they need to quit using Sports legends to push these products, especially Nike. /s
All this chit is getting so dang dumb!
“undercuts parental authority and exploits young children’s developmental immaturity”
Everyone knows only the government and the public education minions ar allowed to do that.
Always winter, never Christmas for the libs.
We were usually never allowed sugar cereal but on one trip we got to take along a box of Fruity Pebbles with a ‘Ghostly Grabber’ (glow-in-the-dark ladder-type forceps) inside. I was on pins and needles awaiting a big bowl of Pebbles and the prize inside the next morning.
Another kid from another family decided he would help himself to both.
I was only 8 or 9 but I think I became a conservative at that moment as I watched some chancer help himself to whatever he wanted without so much as a please or a thank you.
I wonder how many of those activists are going to bother protesting at Starbucks over the child’s size hot chocolate and the 300 calories they contain...
Barack Obama just appointed Burghermeister Meisterburgher as Toy Czar.
I love sugary cerals, even as an adult. I do a lot of cycling, weight lifting, snowboarding, hockey, lacrosse, BMXing, mountain biking and martial arts and I can’t get enough carbs to save my life. Whenever before I have a long 20 mile bike ride from my house to the future Mrs. N*SC’s house, I’m always eating a loaf of bread’s worth of PB and J and I’m always hungry after the ride. And that’s BEFORE taekwondo practice. After practice, I’m bushed, except when I eat another box of sugary ceral before class for the ride home. Whenever I have to do an extra long bike ride before I lift weights or when I play a pickup game of hockey, I always make sure to eat a box of generic Froot Loops with soy milk and a jar of peanut butter for protein. That way, I never get hungry until after my workout or game.
You made me tired just READING this. LOL
Center for SCience in the Public Interest again.
They must be low on cash and decided to make some funding waves.
Frivolous lawsuit.
I have dealt with McDonalds. They have their act together. They will blow this one out of the water.
There’s another group that wants Ronald McDonald done away with as well. I hope they intend to fund and operate all the RONALD MCDONALD HOUSES around the world.
They are very successful. You never see an empty McDonalds or one for sale.
Anyone who would equate MacDonalds Happy Meals with pedophilia is mentally ill. This is the sort of wild hyperbolic ranting that we have come to associate with the “progressives”. People should recognize that the use of this sort of demonization is a tool of psychotics who seek totalitarian power. These people may be crazy and deluded, but they are also very dangerous. This supposed scientific group comes out with these crazy rants regularly. They are truly deranged.
I do not have much money but why is it that liberals always seem to have an endless supply of cash and lawyers to destroy America?
Why can’t we find some group with lawyers, somewhere, to sue CPSI into the ground and put them out of business?
We have to fight fire with fire because just resting on morals alone will get us all killed or placed into servitude.
McDonalds undercuts parental authority. LOL! These idiots at the Center for Science in the Their Own Interest are Marxists to the max. They want to control each and every facet of our lives.
McDonalds, you’ve lived by the PC, you’ll die by the PC.
Furthermore, your stores are so dirty/filthy, I quit taking my kids there.
I eat at privately owned restaurants only.
Liberals are the most pathetic wet blankets. They are never happy and always miserable.
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