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The pompous fascists at the egregiously misnamed "Center for Science in the Public Interest" resurfaced this week to announce a brand new shakedown of McDonald's.
Unless the fast-food giant agrees to stop distributing toys with its Happy Meals, the group says it will move forward with a lawsuit charging that the company "unfairly and deceptively" markets its products toward children.
Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center, says McDonald's marketing is so powerful that "worn down" parents can't be trusted to properly monitor their own children.
Why that is any business of Mr. Jacobson and his ilk remains a mystery.
In fact, this whole Nanny State crusade is fast getting out of hand and the Center for Science in the Public Interest is the poster child for such idiocy. At some point, the level-headed majority must rise up and demand that these fussbudgets who seek to hijack the power of government to control virtually every facet of our existence leave everybody the hell alone or face the potential ugly consequences.
Every inch this devil's army advances is an inch lost to tyranny at the expense of freedom, liberty and personal responsibility.
As for McDonald's, the company must grow a backbone and tell these do-gooders to kiss its McNuggets. Rather than cave to this extremist pressure group, the chain should aggressively fight this lawsuit and demand that Mr. Jacobsen's outfit reimburse the company for all its legal expenses.
And any judge who allows this frivolous action to clog up the courts should be targeted for removal.
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The only person displaying a lack of reasoning skills in this thread is our amateur climate scientist, Mark Schaffer. The link you provided, Mark, proves this editorial's point. CSPI lost all credibility (if it ever really had any to begin with) with this nonsense.
And we used to laugh at the absurd "Bergermeister Meisterberger" in the children's Christmas special "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"... Life imitates art...
Study: (Health) Insurance companies hold billions in fast food stock
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/15/insurance.fast.food.stock/index.html
I wish I was rich so I could counter sue orgs like the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Sierra Club. Wouldn't even matter if I won just as long as I could tie up their money in court. Let me go get that lottery ticket. I have a dream!
Patrick,
So name calling is your standard of reasoning...Nice.
To contrast with Patrick Gibbons lack of reasoning skills along with the author of the diatribe above start here:
http://www.cspinet.org/new/201006221.html
If new McDonalds toys were banned would this have a positive impact on the eBay value of the old toys?
If the answer is yes then BAN THEM ASAP!
There are simply very very few judges in this country with any Gonads. This lawsuit is bull and should be tossed out immediately. People like to blame the problems on insane groups like the center for science blah blah blah but the real problem is the judges cannot JUDGE.
And while were at it, who says that cigarette companies should be able to use doctors to promote their product? And, why shouldn't Camel use "kid friendly" advertising to induce pre-teens otherwise disposed to lighting up, to do just that? I mean, hey, why stop banks from promoting loans to people dumb enough to take them just because the end result of this is that the entire system might collapse? And if the nuclear power industry wants to tell people that they can swallow whatever products are used in nuclear power plants and that this is a good reason to allow even more of these plants in your area; good!
There's a county in California whose commissioners are fascist and have voted to ban the toys at McD's.
You just gotta love the nanny staters.
I know! We can have a "cap and trade" system with fast food places. For every pound of lettuce produced somewhere they can get a "credit" and McDonald's can "buy" that credit to "offset" its "fat" production. It would be great! Obama could appoint another czar to administer it.
The possibilities are endless.
MsSchaffer,
In what way? It seems reasoned enough to me. Nannies believe parents have no control over their kids because the kids want toys at McDonalds all because McDonalds advertises toys with meals. The Nannies fallaciously believe that by banning the toys they can get kids to eat healthier. 1) Probably not 2) its none of their business.