happy meals ilegal

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?

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.

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.

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...