So, is a restaurant allowed to market the way they want or..

So, is a restaurant allowed to market the way they want?

The answer in a politically correct world is no- The nanny state do-gooders think they need to dictate to corporations how to run their business. And they would be happy to use the power of the state to accomplish this.

Camel, Marlboro, Walmart and McDonalds are all victims of this political correctness- and there's more to come. The precedence has been set for them to make laws on all this stuff, and it will include what we eat- now that they have laws for booze and tobacco.

Here's the solution. Require one at each McD's...

nothing wrong with me wrote: McDonalds has been doing this forever so what changed lately?

http://www.newsy.com/videos/mcdonald-s- ... os+Feed%29

To answer the question: Queen oblama...

Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, we can turn our attention to another remorseless enemy who for years has sown death and destruction among blameless innocents. I refer, of course, to Ronald McDonald.

http://reason.com/archives/2011/05/23/m ... -mcdonalds

The general rule of critics is that McDonald's can do nothing right. Some years ago, they insisted that the company get rid of the beef tallow in which it cooked French fries. It did so, in favor of a supposedly healthier oil containing trans fats. A few years later, the activists demanded that it abandon trans fats, which it soon did.

How much credit did it get for those changes? Not much. The class of people who detested McDonald's went right on detesting it.

These ads are part of a larger campaign against everything McDonald's represents. Were the company to retire Ronald McDonald, its enemies would step up their calls for an end to Happy Meals. Get rid of Happy Meals, and they would demand that McDonald's thoroughly revamp its menu to incorporate their superior notions of nutrition.

Ultimately, the only way to please the critics is to become something unrecognizable. Or, better yet, disappear from the planet. New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman, who is to sanctimony what Saudi Arabia is to oil, believes "anything that discourages people from eating at McDonald's could be seen as wonderful."

Personally, I hate most food at mcD's. I like a fillet of fish rarely and will get an Ice cream cone or shake occasionally but there is an Arby's across the street from there and they make way better jamocha shakes. I only ate there when my kids were young because of the kids play parks. We did not have the options of juice and so forth either. I am sorry but McD has changed the menu with healthy choices now. There is nothing wrong with a happy meal, toys, or having a Mcd Happy Meal once in a while. Who takes their kids to McDs everyday and when I was there a few weeks ago with my brother and niece she had apples, milk and 2 Mc nuggets.

I had read somewhere that McD was making people eat bad and that lasts into adulthood and that was another example of their evil corporate plan. Give me a break. I don't see anyone doing this to Cheesecake factory. Ever read their nutrition facts? And huge serving sizes.

This is another example of changing things by control rather than a more effective way. (ever hear of Pinecam) Just tell people the facts and let them decide. No one likes be forced to do anything.

I feel a Big Mac coming on today for lunch.

---

Moralizing Against McDonald's
The clownish antics of nanny state busybodies

Steve Chapman | May 23, 2011

Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, we can turn our attention to another remorseless enemy who for years has sown death and destruction among blameless innocents. I refer, of course, to Ronald McDonald.

The McDonald's mascot may qualify as one of the more annoying characters on the planet. But to his credit, he doesn't compound his unappealing personality by bossing you around. In that respect, he is far less objectionable than the people who make a fetish of finding him objectionable.

Last week, they took out ads in several newspapers blaming the clown for childhood obesity and demanding that McDonald's "stop marketing junk food to kids." The signers range from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, an anti-meat group that the American Medical Association has accused of "perverting medical science," to alternative-healing huckster Andrew Weil.

Read More:
http://reason.com/archives/2011/05/23/moralizing-against-mcdonalds

So, from the original article it says:

More than 550 health professionals and organizations are. They’ve written to McDonald’s asking to get rid of the meal and the man behind it -- Ronald himself.

The Wall Street Journal reports the organization, Corporate Accountability International, says marketing to kids cannot be ignored as a significant part of the childhood obesity epidemic.

Perhaps someone can point out to me the part where the Obama administration has ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with this....?

Personally?, it's stupid. It's not McDonald's fault...It's the parents' fault, and if they take their kids to Mickey-D's because they're too lazy to cook, what's that got to do with Ronald McDonald? It is a STUPID intrusion... And that has exactly WHAT to do with the Obama "nanny-state" bullsh*t?

Anther thread with the same topic was merged into this thread.
:thumbsup:

285 Road Crew

If McDonald's is marketing junk food to children...then what about Lays Potato Chips or Coca-Cola or Twizzlers or Dairy Queen's ice cream shakes? All of these products are considered junk food.

IF anything, they should go after the King at BK, that dude's scary, & a stalker...
At least I can see Ronald, & not be scared...

This debate should be about ethics, not the law.

Law makers should stay out.

You cannot legislate ethics/morality --- at least that's what the liberals have claimed for a couple of decades......
(oh but wait - maybe we should be legislating their morality.....)

Gotta go - McDonald's happy hour starts in just a few minutes.