I get SOOOOO pissed off when bad parents try and blame other people because they shouldn't have spawned. SERIOUSLY pissed. I don't have kids but when I do and if I am a bad parent, I won't blame Wendy's because the logo has red hair.
I saw this in the AJC, "GROUP WILL SUE MCDONALDS'S OVER HAPPY MEAL TOYS." In the article "The Center for Science in the Public Interest says the toys in McDonalds Happy Meals are making America's children fat." Really? I have nine nieces and nephews and they aren't fat. Maybe because they don't eat the toys from a Happy Meal.
The article continues: The Washington-based consumer advocacy group threatened to file a lawsuit against McDonald's Tuesday, charging that the fast food chain "unfairly and deceptively" markets the toys to children. Well the adults that eat at McDonalds (PS, does anyone without kids still eat at McDonalds if it isn't breakfast?) certainly aren't interested in a Dora the Explorer glass!
Listen to this a-hole: "McDonald's marketing has the effect of conscripting America's children into an unpaid drone army of word-of-mouth marketers, causing them to nag their parents to bring them to McDonald's," CSPI's Stephen Gardner wrote to the heads of the chain in a letter announcing the lawsuit. I hate this guy.
And here is the best part: The center, which has filed dozens of lawsuits against food companies in recent years, is hoping the publicity and the threat of a lawsuit will force McDonald's to negotiate with them on the issue. The group announced the lawsuit in the letter to McDonald's 30 days before filing it with the hope that the company will agree to stop selling the toys before a suit is filed. AKA, the company doesn't really care about the kids, they just want a fat (pun intended) check from McDonalds because they don't want to do real work.
Is it the fast-food joint's place to monitor what we eat? Last time I checked, they are responsible for making money. And PS, Micky D's does have some healthy options. Case in point: the company made a pledge in 2007 to advertise only two types of Happy Meals to children younger than 12: one with four Chicken McNuggets, apple dippers with caramel dip and low-fat white milk, or one with a hamburger, apple dippers and milk. They both meet the company-set requirement of less than 600 calories, and no more than 35 percent of calories from fat, 10 percent of calories from saturated fat or 35 percent total sugar by weight. CSPI argues that even if those Happy Meals appear in advertisements, kids order the unhealthier meals most of the time. What more do you want McDonalds to do?
And in case you didn't think Stevie was a big enough bouche-dag, his boss decided to weigh in. Michael Jacobson, executive director of CSPI, says it's the parents responsibility too (not just McDonalds), but he equates the toy giveaways to a door to door salesman coming to a family's house every day and asking to privately speak with the children. "At some point parents get worn down," Jacobson says. "They don't always want to be saying no to their children. We feel like an awful lot of parents would be relieved if this one pressure was removed from them."
HEY, IF YOU DON'T LIKE SAYING NO, YOU AREN'T PREPARED TO HAVE KIDS. STOP GETTING PREGGERS AT THE AGE OF 16 AND APPEARING ON MTV OR I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS PREGNANT!
I get so pissed off when parents blame other people for their mistakes. You don't want your kid to get fat? Prepare them a healthy dinner. The kid is whining about going to McDonalds? Say NO! Stop being lazy. I think if I tried to whine about be a mindless drone or whatever Stevie said earlier, my parents would have given me the stink-eye and that was enough. i would have shut it up. I wish I could give the CSPI the stink-eye and they would go away.
I honestly hope this goes to court and the judge not only rules against the CSPI, but allows McDonalds to countersue for wasting everyone's time. Maybe even throw Stevie and this Jacobson guy in jail for contempt of court. Maybe then they'd learn. They'd probably then though say that the prison food came with a shower rape and try and sue...
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