If Ronald McDonald is looking a bit glum these days, there's a reason:
They've banned the Happy Meal in San Francisco.
Actually, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban restaurants from handing out toys with meals that fail to meet basic nutritional standards for fat, calories, and sodium. That would include the Happy Meal, which has been a fat-packed fave of hungry children for decades.
Backers of the bill said it would help promote healthy eating habits and help in the fight against childhood obesity, which has tripled in the past 30 years, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Our children are sick," Supervisor Eric Mar, who sponsored the measure, told Reuters. "Rates of obesity in San Francisco are disturbingly high, especially among children of color. This is a challenge to the restaurant industry to think about children's health first and join the wide range of local restaurants that have already made this commitment."
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How about if they just banned McD's altogether? Imagine how many problems THAT would get rid of! PETA would be happy, our physicians would be happy, our gym teachers would be happy, airline seating would be happy… the list goes on and on…..
Easy to fix! Just call them 'Gay Meals' and if they try and ban them they can say its because they are 'Homophobic'!!!
i want to see Eric Mar try to explain to a hungry, cranky, 5 year old why he can't have a Happy Meal.
What about…
Baseball cards that come in a package with sugary gum?
The little prizes in packages of Cracker Jacks?
Little plastic toys included inside boxes of sugary cereal?
Im sorry I am an independent here..with mostly democrat friends.
We all think this is a horrible idea. Parents need to control their kids. If its too hard to say no once in a while they should have never decided to become a mom or dad. Yes its easy to go to McDonalds but its not the only restaurant in the area.
You can eat Mcdonalds and not get fat.. but if you are eating there 3 times a week you are pushing your luck if you are eating those double cheeseburgers every other day.
This is personal choice really. There has to be a line drawn somewhere and for me… they crossed the line.
"This is a tremendous victory for our children's health," said the state education board's Eric Mar, chief sponsor of the legislation.
lol … what a fool… This guy is eitehr the dumbest man ever to server on the education board or someone who is getting his cut from another source that benefits from healthier happy meals. Forcing kids to watch, eat, etc. what you want could also be healthier.
Any kid caught on facebook after 10pm will be fined in which their parents will have to pay. Any kids watching channels other than 4, 6, 10, 14, 28, and 36 will have their TVs removed from their home. Any kdis who exceed the weight limit for school will be sent home and parents will have to pay for a diet program legislated by the state… etc. These are not so far stratched anymore since this new ban on happy meals.
Seriously get out of people's lives. You think you are saving lives but you are not. Let me give you a clue here. You can buy toys sperately at Mcdonalds. You always have been able to.
If parents did their job and over 1/3 of children weren't little fatties, and over half of American's weren't, SF would have no need to do this.
now the streets of S.F. will be littered with fruits and veggies because kids aren't stupid and their parents aren't either. as long as the free toy is in the box is all that is required here. on the flip side –"hey kids,want to go for a ride to Santa Clara for a toy?"
this smacks of social engineering and, maybe, a restraint of trade lawsuit. not to worry gavin is the new Att. General and he will defend S.F. maybe if Micky-d's put a joint in there instead the folks would give some eco-credits and a high-five.
One of the most pathetic things i ever heard…
No wonder it's call the People's Republik of Kalifornia…
Simply eliminate all Happy Meals. Let the little 'moon beams' eat Big Macs & a jumbo fries w/a 32oz
coke instead. Call it the "Big Fat Jolly Meal". Give them a discount coupon towards a glucose tester
instead of a toy. Hey, Hey, Hey…Here comes Fat Albert!!!