{"id":21537,"date":"2010-12-15T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21537"},"modified":"2010-12-15T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T19:01:19","slug":"macdonalds-sued-over-happy-meal-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21537","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald’s sued over Happy Meal toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has filed a lawsuit against the MacDonald’s Corp<\/a> for their “decision to markets its meals directly to young children”. Um, since when do kids have jobs and money with which they can make decisions about their purchases? Apparently some mother from Sacramento has joined the Center in the lawsuit. Is she looking for someone who can tell her kids ‘no’ so she doesn’t have to be a big ol’ meany?<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

They claim McDonald’s decision to markets its meals directly to young children violates several consumer protection laws because it exploits a child’s vulnerability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A child’s vulnerability? Really? What children are running around with a wallet full of cash? My kids got one fast food meal a month (usually because that’s how often I could afford to feed them one) sometimes they chose a Happy Meal, but most of the time they wanted pizza at Pizza Hut. Are they going to sue Pizza Hut because they put cheese in the crust – cuz that’s what excited my kids.<\/p>\n

I don’t understand this at all. I’ve never thought that all of my parenting failures could be solved in the courts. <\/p>\n

But not Monet Parham<\/a>;<\/p>\n

According to Parham, the main reason her six-year-old daughter, Maya, asks to go to McDonald\u2019s is to get toys based on Barbie, i-Carly, Shrek, or Strawberry Shortcake. The food seems almost beside the point to the kids, says Parham, because the toy monopolizes the attention of Maya and her two-year-old sister Lauryn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, tell them ‘no’, ya twit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am concerned about the health of my children and feel that McDonald\u2019s should be a very limited part of their diet and their childhood experience,\u201d Parham said. \u201cBut as other busy, working moms and dads know, we have to say \u2018no\u2019 to our young children so many times, and McDonald\u2019s makes that so much harder to do. I object to the fact that McDonald\u2019s is getting into my kids\u2019 heads without my permission and actually changing what my kids want to eat.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, so all of the responsible people who only take their kids to MacDonald’s as a treat have to suffer because you want to be your kids’ buddy instead of a parent? If you don’t want MacDonald’s in your “kids’ heads”, turn off the TV, too, ya want-wit.<\/p>\n

I know this has nothing to do with the military, it just cheesed me off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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