re: #315 MandyManners

Fucking Nanny State is at it again.

The latest target in the battle over fast food is something you shouldn’t even put in your mouth.

Convinced that Happy Meals and other food promotions aimed at children could make kids fat as well as happy, county officials in Silicon Valley are poised to outlaw the little toys that often come with high-calorie offerings.

The proposed ban is the latest in a growing string of efforts to change the types of foods aimed at youngsters and the way they are cooked and sold. Across the nation, cities, states and school boards have taken aim at excessive sugar, salt and certain types of fats.

Because we parents are too freakin’ stupid to raise our kids by ourselves.

This is a start, but I also think they should ban all premiums. Toys and tchotchke’s, for kids and adults alike. Nothing in cereal boxes, no free cigarette lighters with packs of cigarettes, no free this, not free that, no premiums of any sort, since most of that sort of marketing is designed to appeal to people with low self control and can’t stop themselves from buying something bad for themselves.

I agree with the concept.