NYC to dismantle Happy Meal regime

[1still_waters]

NYC is trying to dismantle a nefarious network of miscreants who are attacking the city.
No not ISIS.
Ronald McDonald.

It seems Ronald and his radicalized followers pose such a great threat to the city, that the council has given time to dismantling this group.

Infants, toddlers, children, and tweens have been radicalized for too long by this red headed clown. NYC is getting serious this time against this threat.


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[h=1]New York City aims to slim down kid’s meals, with toys[/h]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — New York City wants to put the Happy Meal on a diet.
The McDonald’s kids meals, as well as those from Burger King and Wendy’s, are in the cross hairs of the New York City Council, which is considering restrictions on any fast food meals that includes a toy.
Councilman Benjamin Kallos introduced a “Healthy Happy Meals” bill Thursday that requires them to have no more than 500 calories and 600 milligrams of sodium.
Additionally, less than 35% of those calories should come from fat, less than 10% from saturated fats and less than 10% from sugar. The meals will also have to contain a serving of fruit, vegetables or whole grains.
“It is difficult enough for parents to give their children healthy food without the fast food industry spending hundreds of millions of dollars per year advertising to children, and nearly half of that on toys,” said Kallos in a press release. “If restaurants are going to incentivize children, they should incentivize them to eat healthy.”
The New York City Department of Health says that half of the city’s elementary school children are overweight, Kallos added, and cites a report from the Federal Trade Commission that found the fast food industry spent $714 million on marketing to children in 2009.
The bill has to be approved by the city council’s health committee, then the city council and will go to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Of the three Happy Meals on the McDonald’s online menu, only one – the Chicken McNugget meal – adheres to the bill’s proposed guidelines, with 415 calories, 550 milligrams of sodium and a serving of apples. The other meals featuring cheeseburgers or hamburgers, exceed the calorie and sodium limits. The cheeseburger alone contains 680 milligrams of sodium, bringing the meal’s total to 880 milligrams.
McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
San Francisco imposed similar restrictions on Happy Meals in 2011. But McDonald’s sidestepped the ban by changing its policy to only provide toys with meals at the request of parents, and charging them an extra ten cents.
New York City aims to slim down kid’s meals, with toys | WTVR.com

 

[oldernotwiser]

show pictures of americans to chinese and they have trouble believing that so many people could be so fat

 

[Desdichado]

Show pictures of rural Chinese peasants to Americans, and they would have trouble believing that so many could be so starved, malnourished, and sex-deprived.

 

[oldernotwiser]

actually, rural chinese (while certainly not prosperous) are probably healthier than most rural americans. i have pictures of an extremely poor chinese village that i stayed in for a few days and the people certainly weren't starving. the very old man was a university professor who was shipped out of beijing in the cultural revolution. when he could have returned he decided to stay as a farmer and school teacher in a rural school. you should come here and take a look.

 

[BlackPlatypus]

NYC is like an island of food fascists in politics. If any of the council members are fat they'll have a hard time being taken seriously if they pass this bill.
I wonder if Mayor Bill de Blasio is going to be like his predecessor.


[h=1]Mayor Bloomberg: Food Fascist or Health Advocate?[/h]

NYC is trying to dismantle a nefarious network of miscreants who are attacking the city.
No not ISIS.
Ronald McDonald.

It seems Ronald and his radicalized followers pose such a great threat to the city, that the council has given time to dismantling this group.

Infants, toddlers, children, and tweens have been radicalized for too long by this red headed clown. NYC is getting serious this time against this threat.


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New York City aims to slim down kid’s meals, with toys

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — New York City wants to put the Happy Meal on a diet.
The McDonald’s kids meals, as well as those from Burger King and Wendy’s, are in the cross hairs of the New York City Council, which is considering restrictions on any fast food meals that includes a toy.
Councilman Benjamin Kallos introduced a “Healthy Happy Meals” bill Thursday that requires them to have no more than 500 calories and 600 milligrams of sodium.
Additionally, less than 35% of those calories should come from fat, less than 10% from saturated fats and less than 10% from sugar. The meals will also have to contain a serving of fruit, vegetables or whole grains.
“It is difficult enough for parents to give their children healthy food without the fast food industry spending hundreds of millions of dollars per year advertising to children, and nearly half of that on toys,” said Kallos in a press release. “If restaurants are going to incentivize children, they should incentivize them to eat healthy.”
The New York City Department of Health says that half of the city’s elementary school children are overweight, Kallos added, and cites a report from the Federal Trade Commission that found the fast food industry spent $714 million on marketing to children in 2009.
The bill has to be approved by the city council’s health committee, then the city council and will go to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Of the three Happy Meals on the McDonald’s online menu, only one – the Chicken McNugget meal – adheres to the bill’s proposed guidelines, with 415 calories, 550 milligrams of sodium and a serving of apples. The other meals featuring cheeseburgers or hamburgers, exceed the calorie and sodium limits. The cheeseburger alone contains 680 milligrams of sodium, bringing the meal’s total to 880 milligrams.
McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
San Francisco imposed similar restrictions on Happy Meals in 2011. But McDonald’s sidestepped the ban by changing its policy to only provide toys with meals at the request of parents, and charging them an extra ten cents.
New York City aims to slim down kid’s meals, with toys | WTVR.com

 

[oldernotwiser]

Show pictures of rural Chinese peasants to Americans, and they would have trouble believing that so many could be so starved, malnourished, and sex-deprived.

here's a picture of the ex professor but now farmer and country school teacher. the other is the family

 

[SonInMe]

Ya wanted government health care....

now they can tell you how to eat...

walk....

talk.....

perform biological functions in the bathroom.... and how to clean yourself afterwards.

Be adults and live life on your own accounts and stop being a little baby suckling mommy governments.

 

[GodIsSalvation]

Doesn't seem too bad an idea to me. Spending 700 some million dollars to brainwash children to buy happy meals is pretty indicative and symbolic of many problems with western society these days.

 

[Nautilus]

To be fair if a parent thinks a mcdonalds happy meal is a good well-balanced meal for their child then Im glad someone is deciding to regulate it. Too many lazy parents dont care enough about what their children eat. Does it suck for the ones who do pay attention? Sure, but no need to screw kids with bad parents over by ignoring it.

 

[BlackPlatypus]

And yet, while local government goes after corporate business practices and production, as in this case with the Happy Meal, what they don't do is go after manufactures of processed foods. Which helps to lead to childhood obesity in the larger market place. Like grocery stores and every manufacturer of processed foods.
Preservatives, like that what keeps Mayonnaise, traditionally only eggs, oil, salt, on a dry shelf with an expiration date years in the future. What is that? That keeps eggs preserved in a warehouse till 2016 and beyond?
Not to mention other products including raw meat.
Factory farming commits to fattening a supply to meet the demand. Growth Hormone, steroids, antibiotics to fight the diseases that can occur due to the close natured housing in factory farms. All this is byproduct in the processed final outcome of raw red meat.

So then, the question becomes, why this company? When factory farming of the chicken in McNuggets, the shakes, which are called such because they don't contain milk so "milk" shake is not allowed on the menu, and Big Mac's, formerly made with pink slime, (It's baaaack!**Article** Uh-Oh: Pink Slime is Back in Your Food)

is a standard at McDonald's. And other fast food joints.

Why McDonalds? Do other chains not feed children? Hardly.

Who benefits? Cui bono? When there is an issue with virtually all manufactured food stuffs consumers buy.

 

[tourist]

NYC is trying to dismantle a nefarious network of miscreants who are attacking the city.
No not ISIS.
Ronald McDonald.

It seems Ronald and his radicalized followers pose such a great threat to the city, that the council has given time to dismantling this group.

Infants, toddlers, children, and tweens have been radicalized for too long by this red headed clown. NYC is getting serious this time against this threat.


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New York City aims to slim down kid’s meals, with toys

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — New York City wants to put the Happy Meal on a diet.
The McDonald’s kids meals, as well as those from Burger King and Wendy’s, are in the cross hairs of the New York City Council, which is considering restrictions on any fast food meals that includes a toy.
Councilman Benjamin Kallos introduced a “Healthy Happy Meals” bill Thursday that requires them to have no more than 500 calories and 600 milligrams of sodium.
Additionally, less than 35% of those calories should come from fat, less than 10% from saturated fats and less than 10% from sugar. The meals will also have to contain a serving of fruit, vegetables or whole grains.
“It is difficult enough for parents to give their children healthy food without the fast food industry spending hundreds of millions of dollars per year advertising to children, and nearly half of that on toys,” said Kallos in a press release. “If restaurants are going to incentivize children, they should incentivize them to eat healthy.”
The New York City Department of Health says that half of the city’s elementary school children are overweight, Kallos added, and cites a report from the Federal Trade Commission that found the fast food industry spent $714 million on marketing to children in 2009.
The bill has to be approved by the city council’s health committee, then the city council and will go to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Of the three Happy Meals on the McDonald’s online menu, only one – the Chicken McNugget meal – adheres to the bill’s proposed guidelines, with 415 calories, 550 milligrams of sodium and a serving of apples. The other meals featuring cheeseburgers or hamburgers, exceed the calorie and sodium limits. The cheeseburger alone contains 680 milligrams of sodium, bringing the meal’s total to 880 milligrams.
McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
San Francisco imposed similar restrictions on Happy Meals in 2011. But McDonald’s sidestepped the ban by changing its policy to only provide toys with meals at the request of parents, and charging them an extra ten cents.
New York City aims to slim down kid’s meals, with toys | WTVR.com

Soon the government will regulate every single aspect of our lives. This was a free country once but is turning into a slave state due in part to the majority of low-information voters who are not smart enough to think for themselves or ambitious enough to provide for their families. One day the money will run out and it will be survival of the fittest. Makes me want to go out and score a Big Mac, a super-sized order of fries and a large shake with whipped cream on top before it is outlawed. It is OK if you smoke a doobie but a crime to eat a French fry.

 

[BlackPlatypus]

People showed our government they require the nanny state when welfare became a staple for generations.
Income tax showed us that not only is the fed happy to wipe our nose, but they'll take a huge bite of what we've earned to survive ourselves when we are the one's that work, so as to pay for the Kleenex everyone else blows into.

That Chief Justice Roberts wasn't impeached from the bench when his vote passed Obamacare, and he's a Republican who should know better, outlines our national future.

We haven't been a free country in a long time. In fact, the average citizen, and certainly not any of today's public school students, would be very hard pressed to name one thing that is free in America.
Some states have outlawed being homeless, so it isn't that either.

Meanwhile, if you trespass across our borders, or through our ports and gain illegal entry, you'll be set. We the working people will work harder to give you a better life. You can even join our military and if you survive get benefits that can include naturalization. Bring us your tired, your poor, your diseased so we the people can grow sick and tired. And when we complain about that be called Xenophobes. Because it is no longer PC to be in favor of upholding the law.

Yeah, happy meals are a huge concern. When those kids who can't be tempted to eat a nugget because of that eeeeevil toy inside the box with the smile on the front and all those naughty calories in a once in a while meal is just wrong! Wrong I say! While that same child can't find his/her home state on a blank U.S. map! Even when they're in high school.

Priorities pal!

Have it your way....Oh, that's the other guys. Do their kid meals have toys?

 

[David_1]

What's crazy to me, is that here in Australia McDonald's can actually be one of the more healthier options.

We have salads, wraps, even McCafe sandwiches etc.
Even the Low Carbers/Atkins types can eat the burgers bun-less.
Diet coke is available.
Water is available.
Little packets of chopped fruit available.

Is McDonald's very different in the USA?

 

[Tintin]

What's crazy to me, is that here in Australia McDonald's can actually be one of the more healthier options.

We have salads, wraps, even McCafe sandwiches etc.
Even the Low Carbers/Atkins types can eat the burgers bun-less.
Diet coke is available.
Water is available.
Little packets of chopped fruit available.

Is McDonald's very different in the USA?

It must be. We don't use low-grade beef either and the pink slime thing probably isn't true of ours (it never was a thing in many countries).

 

[BlackPlatypus]

What's crazy to me, is that here in Australia McDonald's can actually be one of the more healthier options.

We have salads, wraps, even McCafe sandwiches etc.
Even the Low Carbers/Atkins types can eat the burgers bun-less.
Diet coke is available.
Water is available.
Little packets of chopped fruit available.

Is McDonald's very different in the USA?

No. Just the common sense part is.

 

[BlackPlatypus]

It must be. We don't use low-grade beef either and the pink slime thing probably isn't true of ours (it never was a thing in many countries).

Probably isn't true? Helps to research before side handedly calling someone a liar in a Christian forum. Otherwise, it makes one look like a fool when it is they who spouts untruths.

"....Fast food giant McDonalds had decided to terminate the use of ammonia hydroxide – commonly called "pink slime" - in its hamburger meat. T.A Solutions report the brand denies it bowed to a campaign by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to have the chemical, which is also present in fertilizer and cleaning products, removed from the US diet.McDonalds used ammonia hydroxide as an anti-microbial agent to kill e-coli, salmonella and other pathogens.
Food activist, Jamie Oliver, was appalled when he discovered that ammonium hydroxide was being used by McDonalds to convert fatty beef off-cuts into beef filler for its burgers in the USA.
T.A Solutions noticed McDonalds had recently released a statement saying "we made a decision to discontinue to the use of ammonia-treated beef in our hamburgers," but it has only been widely reported within the last few days. McDonalds denies that Oliver's show had anything to do with halting the practice, and it does appear that they stopped using it before Oliver's show aired in April. (Source:Journalism.co.uk = Press Release T.A Solutions support changes in McDonalds health standardsT.A Solutions endorse marketing unique selling points and believe McDonalds will be better off since making the change in their health standards Posted: 15 February 2012)

(sic)"....Since Oliver's TV series Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premiered in March 2010 on ABC, he has brought attention to the food industry's gross production techniques, and how these processes interfere with children's health.

Using his series as a platform, Oliver has called McDonald's food "unfit for consumption." He exposed the "pink-slime process," which involves grinding all of the unwanted trimmings and fat from the beef, washing it in ammonium hydroxide — these parts of the meat apparently have the most bacteria — then using it as hamburger filler, according to Documentary Lovers. He even said that it's in at least 70 percent of products. "That kind of puts it. ... Everywhere."

Source:Medical Daily = McDonald's Use Of Ammonium Hydroxide To 'Wash' Meat Angers Chef Jamie Oliver, But They're Not The Only Culprit [VIDEO] By Anthony Rivas | Aug 6, 2013

 

[Tintin]

Probably isn't true? Helps to research before side handedly calling someone a liar in a Christian forum. Otherwise, it makes one look like a fool when it is they who spouts untruths.

You're new, please show a bit of decorum. I never called anyone a liar. I essentially said that the pink slim thing probably isn't an issue in many countries, and I didn't think it was a thing in Australia. I wasn't saying it wasn't a thing in the US and some other countries. Please check your attitude, I find you rather antagonistic. Also, look up the definition of LIAR in a dictionary. If I did anything wrong here it was saying something naive. Lying is different.

 

[BlackPlatypus]

You're new, please show a bit of decorum. I never called anyone a liar. I essentially said that the pink slim thing probably isn't an issue in many countries, and I didn't think it was a thing in Australia. I wasn't saying it wasn't a thing in the US and some other countries. Please check your attitude, I find you rather antagonistic. Also, look up the definition of LIAR in a dictionary. If I did anything wrong here it was saying something naive. Lying is different.

No. Antagonistic would be saying, the pink slime thing probably isn't true, without clarifying your words to make them impersonal when I'm the one that introduced the pink slime thing.

Naivety can be avoided if you check your facts before you make a proclamation that something someone said probably isn't true.

I'm new, yes. Decorum should be accorded one who is an old member thinking to accuse someone of making a false statement without checking the facts and then claiming naivety after they're called on it.

I find your attitude immature and irresponsible. And it is troubling that two people like it.

 

[Oncefallen]

Tintin, due to huge amounts of industry money being used to influence politicians and those who run regulatory agencies here in the States a lot of thing show up on our grocery shelves and in our restaurants that wouldn't be permitted in other western nations (at least not without specific labeling). As I understand most nations in the EU require GMO foods be specifically labeled so that consumers know what they are buying whereas here in the States every piece of legislation that would require such labeling has been defeated. Many food additives, preservatives, and colorants that are prohibited elsewhere are in common use here.

Personally (as for the topic at hand) I am a proponent of informed consumers. People need to take personally responsibility in being informed about the food products that they choose to purchase and feed to their families. Here in the US governmental regulatory agencies are corrupted by the industries that they oversee and as a result people have no idea what they are consuming. All to many people take the stance of "it's on the shelf for sale so it must be safe" rather than doing their own research.

Does the state need to regulate what is safe for children to consume based strictly on fat, calorie and sodium content? No, that is the parent's responsibility. Just because an industry spends millions advertising to children doesn't mean that parents in some way have to be foolish enough to purchase the garbage for their kids.

Should the state regulate what is safe for anyone to consume based on chemically and genetically modified products? Absolutely and here in this nation it is doing an abysmal job of making consumers aware of the potential dangers of the food they consume on a daily basis.

 

[Tintin]

No. Antagonistic would be saying, the pink slime thing probably isn't true, without clarifying your words to make them impersonal when I'm the one that introduced the pink slime thing.

Naivety can be avoided if you check your facts before you make a proclamation that something someone said probably isn't true.

I'm new, yes. Decorum should be accorded one who is an old member thinking to accuse someone of making a false statement without checking the facts and then claiming naivety after they're called on it.

I find your attitude immature and irresponsible. And it is troubling that two people like it.

Immature and responsible? Really? It looks like you're trying to pick a fight. I had no issues with you before and now I do. Congratulations.

OnceFallen, thanks for explaining that, mate. There's so much misinformation and conspiracy theory nonsense out there, sometimes it's difficult to discern what's truth and what's not.