The banishment of Ronald McDonald?

[Torplexed]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...mpaigners.html

Ronald McDonald and Happy Meals 'should be banned', say health campaigners
The character Ronald McDonald and McDonald's Happy Meal promotions should be banned because they attract children to junk food too much, according to health campaigners. The experts took out newspaper advertisements in the form of an open letter to tell the firm's management that the mascot and the meals, which come with a free toy, can be damaging.

Yesterday CAI ran full-page ads in US papers, which stated: "Marketing can no longer be ignored as a significant part of this huge problem."

The letter also urged the firm to stop advertising foods high in fat, salt and sugar to children.

A spokesman for McDonald's, which has used the Ronald McDonald character since the 1960s, said it was committed to "responsible advertising".

I can't even recall the last I saw the Ronald character being used in any McDonald's advertising. I figured he was semi-retired, and enjoying the occasional poker night with Mayor McCheese. The Jack in the Box clown has the higher profile nowadays.

I swear someday, the busybodies will inherit the Earth.

[Platapus]

Parents. Can. Always. Say. No.

So what exactly is the problem here?

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Parents. Can. Always. Say. No.

So what exactly is the problem here?

responsibility which they do not want to take.

HunterICX

[Platapus]

When the failure is a lack of responsibility, the solution is not to take responsibility away.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Platapus

When the failure is a lack of responsibility, the solution is not to take responsibility away.

Exactly. I grow weary of the idea that society must always adapt to the most irresponsible or lazy.

I might have more sympathy with these busybodies if I believed for a millisecond that if McDonald's shuttered its doors and canceled its ads, people would stop being obese. However eliminating Big Macs, McMuffins and Quarterpounders won't make people any more virtuous, just as eliminating the clown won't make people more skinny. So I find extremely exasperating the request that businesses act more responsibly than we do ourselves.

[MH]

McDonald's the big evil company.
Good target for lawsuits and populist activist.

Someone save me from myself because i like killing my self with fat pizza shawarma beer and cigarettes.

[Rockstar]

The Happy Meal

A small order of fries OR sliced apples with a side of caramel dip.
12 oz soft drink (milk, chocolate milk, orange juice or apple juice.
A hamburger, cheeseburger or a four or six piece Chicken McNugget with sauce.
And get this, a toy is included too!

How can anyone allow this evil! It's outrageous! OH THE HORROR OF IT ALL.



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[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

responsibility which they do not want to take.

HunterICX

Yup because of to many stupid people who play house we normal parents suffer. So our government takes rights away from all parents good or bad and we all get screwed. Isn't if lovely hahaaa.. Power to the state hahaa...

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Parents. Can. Always. Say. No.

So what exactly is the problem here?

Sheepole and the nannystate can't handle that answer.

[nikimcbee]

I think it is a powerplay from mr hope-n-change himself:

[Torplexed]

Found guilty of the crime of laying waste to the American waistline and defying the nanny state, McDonald receives a farewell kiss shortly before his scheduled execution.

[nikimcbee]

No more free-basing mcnuggets anymore then.

[MH]

Japanese know how to sell &*^&*%^&%$....good food.

Rona McDonalds?!!!!