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Anti-fast food lawyers claim that restaurants like McDonald's are
evil. They back this up with claims that they lure children with
targeted advertisements and promises of free toys. They say that
those indoor playgrounds at McDonald's are evil because they
lure
kids in (nevermind the fact they
actually
help kids burn off the
extra
fat from the food).
Well it seems that the government could stop wasting money in
litigation to do pointless things like banning free toys (like they
did
in California), which don't work anyway. McDonald's still gives out
toys, they just charge $0.10 for them now, and parents still take
their kids there.
Instead, they should take that money and fund child-targeted
adverts and free toys for kids to eat at healthy restaurants, like
Subway, and maybe offer government loans to help people start
new restaurant franchises designed to offer fast food that is
healthy
because, let's face it, there aren't a lot of them out there.
California's ban on Happy Meal toys
http://www.nytimes....co-happy-meals.html
//San Francisco’s ordinance prohibits fast-food restaurants from including free toys in children’s meals that do not meet specific nutritional standards.// [21 Quest, Jan 17 2012]
(?) edible toys= gummy handcuffs
http://awscontent.s...mmyhandcuffsred.jpg
[xandram, Jan 18 2012]
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If parents could, um, parent, this wouldn't be neccessary. |
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[DIY] I'm sure that's true to some extent, but marketing directed at children can be extremely powerful and insidious. One documentary on the subject suggests (among even more disturbing things) that such a powerful association with a brand can be created in the child that it can actually be psychologically damaging to deprive the child of its products, and that advertisers know and deliberately exploit this.
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I consider this worth fighting, but simple 'good parenting' may not always be enough. |
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I disagree, and here's why: there's simply no need to
completely deprive a child of all fast food to be a
good parent. Like all luxuries, it should be allowed,
in
moderation. Just like I don't agree that it's proper to
either deprive a child completely of video games or
to buy them every game they ask for, and it is only
total deprivation, or forcing a child who is used to
frequent exposure to quit cold turkey, that could
possibly lead to any kind of psychological damage.
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It is my fervent opinion that any 'doctor' or lawyer
who says otherwise is a quack and should be
promptly dismissed. |
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not sure how a ban on *free* anything works. |
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I'm not sure myself, especially in a Constitutional
sense. Ask your friend Blissy, she lives in California, I
think. |
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Banning food advertisements on TV would work better and is much simpler to administer. |
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make the toys out of vegetables. |
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Grind up the toys and use them to bulk out the burgers? |
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[ZT] What's avaialable right off the highways is often exclusively fast food, but I would argue that US urban areas are comparable to European in the availability non-chain quality food options. US or Europe, you are taking a chance on the quality of the local option, but it is there, and easily findable if you walk into the center of a smaller city, or around the streets of a larger city. Rural areas are somewhat more problematic, in that finding the local diner tucked away on the back roads can be difficult.
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I'll admit that Yelp or similar has greatly improved the chance of finding quality independent restaurants, but they do exist. |
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//Banning food advertisements on TV would work
better and is much simpler to administer//
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Again, that idea stands on shaky legal ground. In a
free market economy, how can you tell a company
that they are not allowed to market their products
to compete with other companies? Food is food,
and unlike tobacco there is very little, if any, real
evidence that processed foods found at fast food
restaurants are any less healthy than food found at
most sit-down diners.
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Take a look at the documentaries "Super Size Me"
and "Fat Head", in that order (both are available for
free on Hulu.com), for diametrically opposed
viewpoints on the subject, and tell me which seems
more convincing to you. |
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I like po's suggestion, edible toys. Broccoli soldiers,
and carrot little dolls. Yay. |
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I'm with [po], too. You can have a lot of fun with food. I
mean, an orange is a ball you can eat, an apple is a hard
ball you can brain your sibling with (and then eat), bananas
and quite a few other foods are humorously suggestive in
any number of ways, and for a consistent spread pattern
you just can't beat garden peas.
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When T.G.F.J. and I spawn our own brood of attractive,
intelligent, and charming little blonde-haired psychopaths,
we're going to teach them (in a very figurative sense) the
way wolves teach their young; everything is a game... so
play for keeps.
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I feel it is important to note that wolves, with rare
exception, do not eat at McDonald's. |
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xandram, nice find. Were you searching for handcuffs
for a particular sport/rec/fun time? |
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//San Francisco’s ordinance prohibits fast-food restaurants from
including free toys in children’s meals that do not meet specific
nutritional standards//
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So if the free toys are specifically nutritious, it's OK. |
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//When T.G.F.J. and I spawn // it takes 5 of you on your planet? |
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Po, that's his/its wife, presumably. The Great Fairy Jane. He
married a fairy... I wonder about the mechanics of such
breeding. |
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It's 'The Good Fairy Jenny', actually, and she's not
the gossamer-winged 6"-tall Tinkerbell type of fairy. It's
more of a term of endearment. |
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Actually, it's a protected term in the State of
California these days... misuse may carry legal
penalties. |
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Interesting, but we're on the other end of the country...
and she doesn't really need protecting. She's almost as
deadly as I am. Maybe more so, considering she's a woman. |
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Indeed... there's something to be said about the
tenacity of any creature that bleeds for 5 days (or
longer) and doesn't die. |
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T.G.F.J. may be like "The Good Man*" or "Sidhe:"
people you really, really don't want to antagonize,
so you refer to them in flattering terms, to stay on
their good side.
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*not Jesus: the Voodo euphemism. |
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For a moment, I was afraid you were comparing my wife to
Ralph Nader. |
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It was an accident. Please don't hurt me. |
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I would never do such a thing*. It was a fairly obscure
reference anyway.
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*Unless you really, really deserved it, which you currently
do not. |
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