Well, it looks like it is finally happening…Ronald McDonald is just getting too old for kids. Actually, folks are just trying to get the major fast food corporation, McDonald’s, to stop marketing its junk food and "Happy Meals" to kids. Well, good luck with that, and we hope it works out.
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article stating that parents, health advocates (Dr. Weil, et al.) and the nonprofit corporate watchdog Corporate Accountability International have sent a letter to the fast food giant to stop selling junk to the kids of the world. The goal is to get the loveable clown to stop selling to kids and enticing them to ‘buy’ the perrenial happy meals.
As much as I like seeing people taking this issue seriously, we are missing one major point: parents aren’t saying "No" to junior and letting the kids choose the meals! I agree that we need to address the big pockets of McD’s, but we also need to hold parents and educators accountable as well.
You can see the whole letter to McDonald’s here.
Tags: children, fast food, happy meals, mcdonald's
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