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Group Will Sue McDonald's Over Happy Meal Toys

By Paul Shepard on Jun 23rd 2010 11:32AM
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Group Will Sue McDonald's Over Happy Meal Toys

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (aka CSPI aka America's Fat Police) are threatening to sue McDonald's, the nation's largest burger maker, over the toys it includes in its Happy Meals for children.


I would hope that any judge worth his pressed robes would take any suit proposed by the CSPI and put it right in the garbage where it belongs.

I understand that America's kids are too fat and fewer McDonald's -- as opposed to more -- would probably be a good thing for most; however, how can one group attack toys?

I mean, don't parents have some responsibility to monitor what their kids eat? I know teens at school will eat whatever they want and parents are often helpless to stop them.

If a child is young enough to beg, whine and cajole a parent in to buying a Happy Meal, though, shouldn't that parent have enough spine to tell little Junior no?

I think the CSPI's heart is in the right place. Yes, it would be great to reduce the fat and calories consumed by children. Banning toys from meals, though, shows that the CSPI's heads are out to a low-calorie lunch on this one.

Let Mickey Ds serve Happy Meals, and let parents act like parents.



The group is threatening to sue Mickey Ds in 30 days, because the marketing of their Happy Meals to children is, well, too successful: According to CSPI, McDonald's marketing turns American children into an "unpaid drone army, causing them to nag their parents to bring them to McDonald's."

The CSPI was emboldened by the action of California's Santa Clara County, which voted earlier this year to ban restaurants from giving away toys and other items that come with high-calorie meals for children.

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