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using toys to encourage children to purchase unhealthy food is ilegal in some counties now.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-15749628/where-happy-meals-are-illegal-19362009

Why do they need to make it illegal? Do these children not have any parents?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Why do they need to make it illegal? Do these children not have any parents? but the children beg the parents to purchase them and sometimes kids wont shut up untill they get what they want. but if happy meals and fast food toys dont exist then they cant whine about that

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Why do they need to make it illegal? Do these children not have any parents?

I was thinking the exact same thing.

This is a round-about way of doing something they really have no business doing anyway.

1. The parents should stop giving them so much fast food at a early age.

2. Still have the toys but offer better food for the kids instead of the fires and the soda/pop.

While i think fast-food comes from the bowels of the devil, this is a lame law.

I do think fast-food restaurant should be mandated to post on their food boxes and wrappings: "This food has a good chance of causing obesity, eat at your own risk."

are they gonna start doing that to cereals as well ?

i remember when i was a kid every time we went to the supermarket i chose which cereal i wanted judging by what toy it came with.

Originally posted by Robtard
While i think fast-food comes from the bowels of the devil, this is a lame law.

I do think fast-food restaurant should be mandated to post on their food boxes and wrappings: "This food has a good chance of causing obesity, eat at your own risk."

Their lawyers would probably point out that all foods have a chance of causing obesity.

Originally posted by The Nuul
1. The parents should stop giving them so much fast food at a early age.

2. Still have the toys but offer better food for the kids instead of the fires and the soda/pop.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Why do they need to make it illegal?

Removing the temptation, so its not an option at all.

Psychology 101.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Their lawyers would probably point out that all foods have a chance of causing obesity.

True; damn those Jew-lawyers.

Some have a higher chance than others though; it's known that fast-food is one of the greater offenders in this area.

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Removing the temptation, so its not an option at all.

Psychology 101.

But then a black market in happy meals will sweep the country with crime.

They can just drive to another county. If they were really serious, they would make it state-wide.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
But then a black market in happy meals will sweep the country with crime.

You say this in jest but I assure you that the syndicates would love that market.

Originally posted by The Nuul
1. The parents should stop giving them so much fast food at a early age.

People can learn a lot from the Sten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYpwAPBFHPc

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
You say this in jest but I assure you that the syndicates would love that market. that market is called walmart

Originally posted by chomperx9
using toys to encourage children to purchase unhealthy food is ilegal in some counties now.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-15749628/where-happy-meals-are-illegal-19362009

Wait, when did eating a happy meal become unhealthy? They obviously don't know that kids can easily incorporate a Happy Meal into a well balance diet.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Wait, when did eating a happy meal become unhealthy? They obviously don't know that kids can easily incorporate a Happy Meal into a well balance diet. happy meal burger is cooked the same way the other burgers are. just a smaller burger and smaller order of fries. same thing for the chicken mcnuggets

Originally posted by The Nuul
1. The parents should stop giving them so much fast food at a early age.

2. Still have the toys but offer better food for the kids instead of the fires and the soda/pop.

They do, at several fast food chains.

You can get apple slices instead of fries, a water or milk instead of soda. It's at the parents discretion on whether or not to order the healthier alternatives.

not to just jump on the bandwagon, but this seems to make little sense at all...

what are they trying to target, the unhealthy food or the manipulation through the use of toys?

Either way, McDonalds happy meals and the like are by no means the greatest risk to children from either such things. This seems like the state using a scapegoat to increase its control over people's bodies in the name of health...

Originally posted by inimalist
not to just jump on the bandwagon, but this seems to make little sense at all...

what are they trying to target, the unhealthy food or the manipulation through the use of toys?

Either way, McDonalds happy meals and the like are by no means the greatest risk to children from either such things. This seems like the state using a scapegoat to increase its control over people's bodies in the name of health...

Yeah, the greatest risk to children is hot McDonald's coffee hmm

My wife eats happy meals whenever we go to Mickey D's. She doesn't eat much. I always tell her to get the one for a boy, that way I get to keep the toy!

Originally posted by chomperx9
happy meal burger is cooked the same way the other burgers are. just a smaller burger and smaller order of fries. same thing for the chicken mcnuggets


Door knobs are used to open doors. Sometimes, they can be used to lock doors, depending on the model.


Do you understand "what I there"? If no, I'll explain it to you.

Originally posted by inimalist
not to just jump on the bandwagon, but this seems to make little sense at all...

what are they trying to target, the unhealthy food or the manipulation through the use of toys?

Either way, McDonalds happy meals and the like are by no means the greatest risk to children from either such things. This seems like the state using a scapegoat to increase its control over people's bodies in the name of health...

I'd like to call this shit "the nanny state."

Originally posted by Bardock42
Yeah, the greatest risk to children is hot McDonald's coffee hmm



You're gonna get a beat down.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Yeah, the greatest risk to children is hot McDonald's coffee hmm

invariably

Originally posted by dadudemon
I'd like to call this shit "the nanny state."

Foucout called it "Biopolitics"

Huh oddly enough I agree with this one.

A happy meal is like a "fun sized" candy bar, they're both small and you wish they'd be bigger so they can live up to the words happy and fun size. Screw the happy meal, it sucks. I don't care what California does with them.

Put Michael Moore's pic on a bag of Ruffles, that should do it.

When you consider the ammount of poisonous crap the put in food & water nowadays, asparatame in sugar free products, all the "E" poisons not to mention friggin Flouride in water in some US states Happy Meals are harmless.

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html

Originally posted by chomperx9
but the children beg the parents to purchase them and sometimes kids wont shut up untill they get what they want. but if happy meals and fast food toys dont exist then they cant whine about that That's what discipline is for.

Silly law really.

But, the thing is, the law has nothing to do with the health of the food, children are still allowed to eat it and be advertised to.

The issue is in how they are being manipulated through material possessions to want happy meals.

Quebec has similar laws regarding how advertisers can market their product to children. Agree or not, the government is doing nothing to stop people from eating unhealthy food or from living unhealthy lifestyles.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
When you consider the ammount of poisonous crap the put in food & water nowadays, asparatame in sugar free products, all the "E" poisons not to mention friggin Flouride in water in some US states Happy Meals are harmless.

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html
Flouride in water is completely reasonable... nothing has ever shown that the doses hurt people, but there is a body of evidence showing the positive effects it has.

I've always felt that all happy meals should be illegal.. What does it have to do with being happy?

Originally posted by chomperx9
discipline doesnt work anymore without hearing from CPS That is utter bollocks.

What should have been illegal was when Mickie D's took the box away and switched to a freakin' paper bag. It was so grease-stained that it was literally impossible to solve any of the mazes or what-not on the bag. Fortunately, I think it was made illegal.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Not really.




Go ahead and spank your children at the Super Market, in New Jersey and tell us what happens. Don't even do that: just yell at them. Tell us what happens.

Wait, you don't have any kids.


Never mind.

A crack squad of DYFS agents burst through the door and tasered me!

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
A crack squad of DYFS agents burst through the door and tasered me!

Dang. I didn't mean for you to actually try it!

Did you at least say, "Don't taze me, bro?" before they tazed you?

F1ioVED-3lA

Originally posted by dadudemon
Not really.




Go ahead and spank your children at the Super Market, in New Jersey and tell us what happens. Don't even do that: just yell at them. Tell us what happens.

Wait, you don't have any kids.


Never mind. I ave seen kids being told off in public plenty of times and guess what? Nothing f-ing happened, I don't knowhow things happen in America but here parents are actually allowed to discipline their children.

You don't have to have children to know this. I was only a child about 10 years ago and I know that I was disciplined and I know that my parents were never seen by social services.

Originally posted by dadudemon
2. The point was, someone might freak out on you and report you to DHS or other authorities.

It seems to me that this is a much more serious problem for teachers. My mother can't touch the kids she works with in any way because the school can't afford to be sued by a crazy parent.

please do something, US government, or by the time I'm 50, there won't be any jailbait. Just little hippos running around.

Originally posted by dadudemon
1. It was a joke, Mr. Serious Pants (Got that from SpongeBob...teehee.)

2. The point was, someone might freak out on you and report you to DHS or other authorities.

3. My little joke stunt fails with you because you don't have any children to even try this with.

4. You need to smoke a bowl or two, man. You're wound up too tight. It's not always the fault of the person who doesn't get the joke... You ever just thought that you're not very funny? Go back and read your post and tell me if it is a great joke or even seems like a joke at all.

You're just back peddling.

http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/9985/small/internet-serious-business.jpg

1:08 pm here, first accusations of back-peddling, I'm officially calling the thread

10:08am Here. ARE YOU A TIME TRAVELER? ZOMG

I was sent from the future to make longwinded and irrelevant forum posts

Wait, does this save the world somehow?

Originally posted by One Free Man
please do something, US government, or by the time I'm 50, there won't be any jailbait. Just little hippos running around.
http://i543.photobucket.com/albums/gg462/LadeyVonDeath/baby-pygmy-hippo-monifa-taronga-zoo.jpg

Dawww

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
http://i543.photobucket.com/albums/gg462/LadeyVonDeath/baby-pygmy-hippo-monifa-taronga-zoo.jpg

Dawww It's cute, but I'm not in any way tempted to make hot sweaty love to it.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Sorry, mate, it wasn't really a joke.



a**holes.
http://imagemacros.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/internets_srs_bsns_ninjas.jpg

Hahaha, It's ironic. You're telling me I'm taking it seriously with a reply like that. Get a life.

Originally posted by dadudemon




And you said I wasn't funny, yet you got lulz from me. That's a double pwn. I win the internetz! WEEEEEE!

number 1:
http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/ob//internet_graphic1.jpg

Originally posted by dadudemon
i see a huge light heart here alright .

Originally posted by One Free Man
number 1:

Hey! Wait a minute...

That one doesn't count because that was just the icing on the cake of my serious business internet pwns!


Originally posted by chomperx9
i see a huge light heart here alright .

That reminds me...

I was thinking..

Maybe you could sue someone for suing you because their suing you caused undue stress and grief or something. hmm

Look at you trying to seem all laid back now. petpet

Originally posted by dadudemon
Hey! Wait a minute...

That one doesn't count because that was just the icing on the cake of my serious business internet pwns!




That reminds me...

I was thinking..

Maybe you could sue someone for suing you because their suing you caused undue stress and grief or something. hmm wow go back to school man

Get banned? For what? Now that is a funny joke. You certainly are coming along. I didn't even send this topic wayward.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Yeah, cause I was very siwious. Oh so siwious.

Let's get back on topic before you get banned. wow... banned... you probably are one of those people who would sue someone for "undue stress"

Originally posted by dadudemon
So, how about those happy meals, or do you want to continue being off topic?



Pffffft! Because I TOOOTALLY hit the report button, man. Hahahaha, again another classic piece of irony. Don't tell me to bring things back on topic if you've proven your lack of ability to do it within one post.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Weed should be legal and parents are losing the ability to discipline their children.


weed is cleaner and not as harmful as cigarettes.

Originally posted by chomperx9
weed is cleaner and not as harmful as cigarettes.

Until you start doing heroine, meth, cocaine and crack. /fact

Originally posted by Robtard
Until you start doing heroine, meth, cocaine and crack. /fact

Nah, even when you start doing heroin, meth, cocaine and crack, weed is still cleaner and not as harmful as cigarettes.

Excepct for the fact that here everyone smokes it with tobacco. Making it as bad.

I love the fact that people actually seem offended that I don't think it should be legalised. It's jusy my opinion and most governments seem to agree with me, So na, na, na, na, naaa, na.

I don't really give a shit whether cigarettes are made illegal or not. I just think it would be silly for a government to pretend that it's cracking down on alcohol and tobacco (like they are) just to legalise weed. It makes no sense for a government to do it, it's sending out mixed messages to the electorate... It's insane..

People can ***** and moan all they want but until they actually do something about it (which isn't silly pointless protesting) they can simply suck it.

This thread is full of lol.

Originally posted by dadudemon
I'm definitely not offended. I've never smoked weed or cigs, before. I still think that weed should be legal.



I'll try to tie this back into the thread...

The government stepping in and making happy meals with toys, illegal, is the same type of bullshit that makes weed illegal: the nanny state. I hate it.

What about you? Do you care about the government stepping in and making choices for you or do you like to have those choices to make?
The difference being that i'm pretty sure happy meals are more dangerous than weed.

Originally posted by King Kandy
The difference being that i'm pretty sure happy meals are more dangerous than weed.

I disagree: if you drop your happy meal on your shaggy couch, will it catch on fire?

AHA!


PWNED!

possibly

Originally posted by dadudemon
I disagree: if you drop your happy meal on your shaggy couch, will it catch on fire?

AHA!


PWNED!
No, but if you buy coffee with your happy meal there might be something else burning...

ur dick?

Originally posted by King Kandy
Flouride in water is completely reasonable... nothing has ever shown that the doses hurt people, but there is a body of evidence showing the positive effects it has.

What friigin hell wake up!!?? Sodium fluoride is a by product of producing aluminium & is a poison, fact.



http://www.northcoastjournal.com/101906/CVR-FluorideBag.jpg

Lets lock these bad parents up for attemp of murder. They are slowly killing their children.

Originally posted by King Kandy
No, but if you buy coffee with your happy meal there might be something else burning...


Your desire to eat the food and drink the coffee?

glad i kept that mcdonalds collectibles book. i bet that one will be worth something now. has all the happy meal toys that have value these days.

Let's just burn all morbidly obese people and fast food chains. We will start from scratch.

why dont they use toys to encourage children to purchase healthy food ?

Perfectly fine with it.

I don't eat fast-food anymore anyways.

I don't think most kids even want the stupid toys in happy meals, they want the food. It's not like the kids go out and buy the meal anyways, their parents do. Then when they get older they're fat and unhappy because they don't know how to eat healthy.

The law is pointless anyways. You don't have to buy a happy meal to get a toy. They can just get something else off the menu and get a toy from Walmart.

Originally posted by TKM
I don't think most kids even want the stupid toys in happy meals, they want the food. It's not like the kids go out and buy the meal anyways, their parents do. Then when they get older they're fat and unhappy because they don't know how to eat healthy.

The law is pointless anyways. You don't have to buy a happy meal to get a toy. They can just get something else off the menu and get a toy from Walmart. i think they want the toys more than the food. if it didnt come with a toy children wouldnt be begging their parents to purchase them happy meals.

Originally posted by chomperx9
why dont they use toys to encourage children to purchase healthy food ?

Actually they sort of did, considering you still got the toy if you got a salad, some apple slices, and juice instead of the cheeseburger and fries.

I imagine that acknowledging that would have made it hard for the idiots making this law to blame the fast food joints though, so it was sort of ignored.

The law's beyond stupid anyway, and just one more reason I'm glad I don't live in California. Next thing you know, they'll try their hand at outlawing motor vehicles in an attempt to reduce the number of traffic accidents. It'd probably work, but it wouldn't be any less moronic.

Originally posted by chomperx9
i think they want the toys more than the food. if it didnt come with a toy children wouldnt be begging their parents to purchase them happy meals.

I don't know any child who begs their parents for happy meals, because of the toy. Some parents are just lazy and don't want to cook, so they buy thier kids child sized meals.

I guess my point is, to me, this law is suppose to be a way of helping parents say no to their children. They better just grow a backbone.

Originally posted by chomperx9
using toys to encourage children to purchase unhealthy food is ilegal in some counties now.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-15749628/where-happy-meals-are-illegal-19362009

Another retarded idea created by hippie earth loving vegan parents.

Originally posted by TKM
I don't know any child who begs their parents for happy meals, because of the toy. Some parents are just lazy and don't want to cook, so they buy thier kids child sized meals.

I guess my point is, to me, this law is suppose to be a way of helping parents say no to their children. They better just grow a backbone.
I know lots of kids who like happy meals just because of the toy (I was one of them)...

Originally posted by King Kandy
I know lots of kids who like happy meals just because of the toy (I was one of them)...
Seconded.

It's been proven that kids will eat just about whatever they grew up with. The toys and ads are a bane, sure, but not illegal. This law is bullsh.it.

Well I wasn't one of them. My mother didn't let us get a lot of greasy fast food with some rinky dink toy.

Originally posted by TKM
Well I wasn't one of them. My mother didn't let us get a lot of greasy fast food with some rinky dink toy.
Me neither. But that doesn't mean I didn't want her to.

Frankly I was always of the opinion that the toys have long just been an attempt for each fast food chain to compete with the other, rather than entice kids' parents to buy their children happy meals.

Soda companies do the same sort of thing with those promotional things that almost always seem to be going on. Chance to win music downloads, etc. It's just an attempt to get an edge over the competition, not necessarily to entice somebody to buy a 20oz bottle of soda.

i dont know what you guys are talking about. ermm

i work with kids all day. toys are like crack to them, doesnt matter what kind they are.

You know what else they want a lot though? Food. Especially the young ones, who can be like bottomless pits at times.

Kids want food they like, just like everybody else. Toys with happy meals are just an added perk. Frankly I half expect the next move to be banning fast food places from having playgrounds, deciding it also entices kids to eat unhealthy food.

Despite, y'know, the common sense that if they're going to eat that food, a place to exercise and play is EXACTLY what they need.

when i was a kid i prefered toys over food. for example every time we went to the grocery store i always got a different cereal. got the one that had the coolest toy not the best flavor cereal.

Originally posted by chomperx9
i think they want the toys more than the food. if it didnt come with a toy children wouldnt be begging their parents to purchase them happy meals.

Have you seen the quality of Happy Meal toys nowadays? If I were a kid, I wouldn't want them.

When I was growing up, the toys were tons better.

Originally posted by LanceWindu
Have you seen the quality of Happy Meal toys nowadays? If I were a kid, I wouldn't want them.

When I was growing up, the toys were tons better. havent noticed the new ones. the last time mcdonalds dragged me in their was to collect all the monopoly pieces

Originally posted by chomperx9
havent noticed the new ones. the last time mcdonalds dragged me in their was to collect all the monopoly pieces

Even the Monopoly game is half-assed compared to what it used to be.

I was the opposite. Sure I'd still try to get the best toy I could, but only out of the cereal I already liked. I never asked for cereal I wouldn't eat just to get a toy out of it.

Same with fast food. McDonalds had toys I wanted plenty of times, but I didn't like their food. So I didn't ask for it. My parents had no problem stepping in to explain to me why it was silly to want food just to get a cheap toy, and I'd hardly call my childhood ruined.

It's sad that government decides it has to step in, and in the case of that county, against overwhelming public opinion (87% AGAINST the law), just because a few parents don't understand that little Timmy's overweight because he doesn't play outside or exercise, not because of some sinister plot by the fast food corporations.

Originally posted by LanceWindu
Even the Monopoly game is half-assed compared to what it used to be. yeah the original boards were cooler. now they give you cheapy boards that fold out like brochures. i guess that saved em some money

Originally posted by chomperx9
yeah the original boards were cooler. now they give you cheapy boards that fold out like brochures. i guess that saved em some money

Not just that, but the prizes are worse and even if you get Park Place and Boardwalk, you only have a chance to win $1 million. It used to be guaranteed win if you had the pieces.

Originally posted by LanceWindu
Not just that, but the prizes are worse and even if you get Park Place and Boardwalk, you only have a chance to win $1 million. It used to be guaranteed win if you had the pieces. atleast you still win free food. your guaranteed a free item if you super size your drink. the big sticker on the bottom was always something free.

Originally posted by chomperx9
atleast you still win free food. your guaranteed a free item if you super size your drink. the big sticker on the bottom was always something free.

True, but I'd rather win a real prize.

Originally posted by LanceWindu
True, but I'd rather win a real prize. come on man what are the odds of that ?

Originally posted by chomperx9
come on man what are the odds of that ?

1 in 25,000?

Hell if I know.

So forget NaCl, we need LiF!

If Lithium lowers suicide rates, then surely it IS a "happy meal"!