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Filed under: Nutrition: Health, In The News, Nutrition: Toddlers & Preschoolers, Nutrition: Big Kids, Nutrition: Tweens
Do Happy Meals ads work too well? Credit: Eric Risberg, AP
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has filed a lawsuit claiming that McDonald's Happy Meal ads are simply too tempting for children.The advertising, according to the lawsuit, is "circumventing parental control." In other words, "Parents, you're no match for plastic toys and a pitchman clown," writes David Knowles on AOL News.
Earlier this year, we wrote about a lawsuit that tried to get the toys of the Happy Meals. that tried to get the toys of the Happy Meals, and now Happy Meal toys have been banned in San Francisco. Now it's the advertising. What's next? The fries? (Not the fries!)
What do you think? Are Happy Meal ads too tempting? Or is it up to parents to decide what their children eat, no matter how much they might whine?
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12-16-2010 @ 11:11AM
r1111 said...Parent's ought to be able to control their children. Be it what they eat or what they're watching on TV when these ads come on. Check out the tips and family freebies Http://bit.ly/WashHands offers. I sure hope they don't attack the fries!
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12-16-2010 @ 12:20PM
dougalcandy said...So what do we sue for next? Oh no, my child wants a happy meal, Cocoa Puffls, Fritos, an I-Pod. Where does it end? Whatever happened to parents just saying "No"? Why? "Because I said so". Or here's a novel idea--turn off the TV, then your child won't be seeing all the ads! Parents are just too afraid their children won't love them if they don't give them everything they want. So let's blame someone else, then they can still be the cool parent.
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