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McDonald's sued over Happy Meals

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Happy Meals are again under attack, this time in court.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has filed a lawsuit against McDonald's Corp., claiming that the company's meals with toys unfairly entice children into eating food that can do them harm.

What a waste of judicial bandwidth.

To those with fat kids, who are suing McDonald's, I say this: Get off your own fat and lazy asses and feed them yourselves. The Government is not your children's parents. YOU are. So start doing some damn parenting, and quit blaming the fact that your kids look like the Goodyear blimp on anything or anybody but yourselves. McDonald's didn't do that to them. YOU did. So take a little responsibility, for once in your lazy-assed, pathetic lives.

I wonder how many parents with kids fatter than Santa Claus I just pissed off with this post? :mrgreen:

Article is here.
 
But then the mere mention of improving the quality of school-cafeteria food gets people pissed.

geesh!
 
This is so stupid! If people don't want their kids to get fat off of Happy Meals, then don't buy your kids the damn Happy Meals! How hard is the concept to grasp, really?
 
Humans are biologically programmed to enjoy eating fatty food. The presence of a toy is not going to alter this fact. Regardless of whether the Center for Science in the Public Interest thinks it 'unfair', kids are always going to want to go to Maccy D's. This lawsuit seems to me to be equally as frivolous as suing somebody simply for selling unhealthy food to you.
 
But then the mere mention of improving the quality of school-cafeteria food gets people pissed.

geesh!

Actually, spending a gazillion dollars to buy chicken-pot-pies rather than pizza and to build green lunchrooms, gets people in an uproar.
 
Actually, spending a gazillion dollars to buy chicken-pot-pies rather than pizza and to build green lunchrooms, gets people in an uproar.

A junior high school I once went to had a green lunchroom. It also had green bathrooms. Lots of green paint in that school. But that should tell you something about the quality of the food they served there. LOL.
 
LOL

I think people feel the need to always blame someone or something for their problems.
They usually pick the biggest and the most obvious thing that's there.

McD's isn't the only one who gives toys with kid's meals - everyone else does it, too.
If parents wouldn't buy them for hte kids then McD's wouldn't sell them :shrug: they're in it for nothing but profit.
 
This kind of s*** is getting out of control. I hope McDonalds doesn't buckle. They're the ones who should be suing for having their right to run a legal business interfered with.
 
This kind of s*** is getting out of control. I hope McDonalds doesn't buckle. They're the ones who should be suing for having their right to run a legal business interfered with.

It's whoever monopolizes the market :shrug: like a game of tag

funny thing is - no one ever *once* claimed that McD's and all other fast food WAS healthy or something. All I've heard my entire life is that 'fast food is unhealthy' and 'eating too much fat and carbs and not getting enough exercise will get you fat.'

I guess I grew up in America and they grew up ? . . . .
 
Haven't a few of these lawsuits already been lost by the people bringing suit?
 
This lawsuit literally blows my mind. I was talking about it with a few friends and none of us can understand why these people think they will win. I mean sure I do believe that McDonalds should at least TRY and make their fast food less fattening, but this is just stupid. Parents do your job and say no, just like the D.A.R.E. program your kids sit through.
 
This is nothing but a waste of time. Instead of suing these fat ass's should run some laps.
 
What a waste of judicial bandwidth.

To those with fat kids, who are suing McDonald's, I say this: Get off your own fat and lazy asses and feed them yourselves. The Government is not your children's parents. YOU are. So start doing some damn parenting, and quit blaming the fact that your kids look like the Goodyear blimp on anything or anybody but yourselves. McDonald's didn't do that to them. YOU did. So take a little responsibility, for once in your lazy-assed, pathetic lives.

I wonder how many parents with kids fatter than Santa Claus I just pissed off with this post? :mrgreen:

Article is here.

These ambulance chasing legalized extorting scumbags should have their licenses revoked for filing such a frivolous lawsuit. There should a law against this sort of crap.Judicial extortion and fraud should be just as illegal as regular fraud and extortion.
 
There's a legitimate reason for bringing this lawsuit.



It's... um... uh...well...um... let me think about it for a while and I'll come up with something regardless of how plausible it is. :3oops::mrgreen:
 
there's no such thing as bad PR

I'm cravin some McMc's right now damnit - some big mac sauce slathered extra thick between two flat and mishapen buns. Some foul ketchup and soggy pickles. . . so gross but oh so damn good! Greasy fries - everything tainted with that McMc's flavor of mass production.

MMMM

I'd get some if the kids weren't all asleep! Too bad they don't deliver :(

But hey! I know how to make a Big Mac sauce. It's AWESOME with some fried beer-battered cod fish.
 
there's no such thing as bad PR

I'm cravin some McMc's right now damnit - some big mac sauce slathered extra thick between two flat and mishapen buns. Some foul ketchup and soggy pickles. . . so gross but oh so damn good! Greasy fries - everything tainted with that McMc's flavor of mass production.

MMMM

I'd get some if the kids weren't all asleep! Too bad they don't deliver :(

But hey! I know how to make a Big Mac sauce. It's AWESOME with some fried beer-battered cod fish.

More than one? Jeeze who are you Nelson Frazier jr. in drag? :lamo:lamo:lamo

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When my kid (who is young enough to want happy meals) gets a job that earns him enough money to transport himself to McDonald's and purchase food there, I might complain that McDonald's is enticing him.

If, you know, I had a kid.
 
The problem I have with this story is that this woman can't say no to her kids. It is her responsibility to say no and enjoy it.

I think a parent like this should be monitered by DHS because if she can't say no to McDonald's, what is going to happen when the kids demand something really important that will hurt them?

When they are young it is the easy road, when they get older and are out of the house most of the time is when you have to worry and if the kid gets everything he ever asked for, he doesn't know right from wrong.

I also wonder if McDonald's is the only place that gives toys to the kids with the food.

Where I am we have Burger King and Carl's Jr. doing the same thing so why single out McDonald's?
 
Every single restaurant offers toys or amusement for kids - with a purchase of a kid's meal.
heck, some places give such things just by coming in the door with a child. . . and other places are a funland where you come to eat (like Chucky Cheese) . . . and so on.

If people can sue McD's because their kid is fat - can I sue them for letting their kid get fat?
In some places children have been taken away from their parents because they're obese. I agree with Mason - more action against such parents should be taken.

it's not hard not to let your kid become obese. Just don't feed them adult-sized meals every single day filled with nothing but fat, empty calories and meat byproduct.

Obese people irritate me with their argument against eating healthy - they spend twice (at least) as much money on food every week as the average person - and yet complain that eating more fruits and veggies is too expensive and they can't afford it.

Being money-savvy when you shop is a thing of the past - so is smart cooking.
I had one woman argue with me that buying $1.00 burgers at McD's for her family was cheaper than a bag of organic apples. Indeed - yes it is cheaper than organic apples. Who the **** *needs* to eat a bag of organic apples for dinner? I've never once bought a bag of organic apples and we eat healthy and balanced all the time. An average lb of apples in my area costs $1.80 most of the year. . . I went to California in March this year and fruit was half that - I wanted to buy a ton and send it home.
Most bizarre about her argument was that she was arguing "I would buy organic apples if they were less expensive" - in a debate about eating fast-food burgers. She claimed to be concerned about food-content and didn't want the chemicals that a regular apple came with. :lol:
 
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Actually, spending a gazillion dollars to buy chicken-pot-pies rather than pizza and to build green lunchrooms, gets people in an uproar.

Maybe Ms Obama should force McDonalds to install salad bars.
 
I love me some McDonalds now and again. I've had some memorable times sitting with my kids in the germ-infested jungle-gym room and plowing down a Big Mac, fries and a coke.

But those times occur once or twice a month, after a SOCCER game or a BASKETBALL game. As such, there's nothing wrong with eating McDonalds.

But once or twice a day, every day? Yes, even metabolism-friendly-aged kids will get fat. Especially, if there's no activity to offset it.

Good gawd, and this could even be considered by a courtroom?

Stupid.
 
Maybe Ms Obama should force McDonalds to install salad bars.

So you find government influence on private businesses more acceptable than government influence on public schools. Got it.
 
The lawsuite is of couse silly. But the question of unhealthy food is not. That unhealthy food is extremly coustly both for the society and the individuale. That yes people have free wills, but it's interest what is promoted in society. Unhealthy food have heavy promotion with toys, advertisment, cheap prices and availability. While how much promotion is on healthy food? Can you kid meet a happy clown, get a free toy, good tasty food in a restuarant with healthy food. Do you see a lot of comercial on television about health food?

That yes free will, parent responsibility and all that it's still intersting is see how most of the information and incentitive kids and adults get about food is for unhealthy food. That yes parents can try to go against the flow of advertisment for bad food. But all parents maybee don't want their kid to be the only one not to go to the mcdonald birth day parties. Also then the kid is old enough to buy his own food, who will he listen to his boring parents and teacher or all the cool ads for unhealthy foods?
 
The lawsuite is of couse silly. But the question of unhealthy food is not. That unhealthy food is extremly coustly both for the society and the individuale. That yes people have free wills, but it's interest what is promoted in society. Unhealthy food have heavy promotion with toys, advertisment, cheap prices and availability. While how much promotion is on healthy food? Can you kid meet a happy clown, get a free toy, good tasty food in a restuarant with healthy food. Do you see a lot of comercial on television about health food?

That yes free will, parent responsibility and all that it's still intersting is see how most of the information and incentitive kids and adults get about food is for unhealthy food. That yes parents can try to go against the flow of advertisment for bad food. But all parents maybee don't want their kid to be the only one not to go to the mcdonald birth day parties. Also then the kid is old enough to buy his own food, who will he listen to his boring parents and teacher or all the cool ads for unhealthy foods?

Feel free to go for it in that market. It's called capitalism.

Economics isn't the reason these parents feed their kids McDonalds 5+ times per week. It's because they're too lazy to cook, they like junk food, and they don't give a crap about nutrition, appearance, or their health all that much. Pure and simple.

Which happens to be their right to do so. And it's my right to criticize them for it. Government and courts need to stay out.
 
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