Liberals ban Happy Meal toys

[Reality_Check]

Do I trust the government to tell me how to feed my kids properly?

They already do. It's called the food pyramid. Do you not trust that?

[Reality_Check]

So the children now decide where they eat?

Apparently, you don't have children or spend much time around them. They can be very demanding little buggers.

[1bad65]

Apparently, you don't have children or spend much time around them. They can be very demanding little buggers.

I learned to shut up when I was told 'No'. Again though, that's the parents responsibility to teach their kids that.

[1bad65]

They already do. It's called the food pyramid. Do you not trust that?

It's a recommendation, not a law. Well, not yet....

[Reality_Check]

It's a recommendation, not a law. Well, not yet....

It still tells people how to properly feed their children, does it not?

Do you trust that the food pyramid is providing good information regarding nutrition?

[SanHeChuan]

My little ones love their chicken nuggets, but I removes the skin off of them before they eat it.

Chicken (45%), Coating [Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Sunflower), Wheat Flour, Water (8%), Maize Flour, Modified Starch, Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Whey Powder (from Milk), Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride), Egg Albumen (Free Range Egg), Ground Pepper, Breadcrumb (Wheat Flour, Salt), Salt, Dextrose, Ground Celery], Water (7%), Potato Starch, Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Sunflower), Natural Flavouring (from Free Range Egg), Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride). Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Disodium Diphosphate

Other uses
In leather treatment, it can be used to remove iron stains on hides during processing. It can stabilize hydrogen peroxide solutions against reduction; it can be used with sulfamic acid in some dairy applications for cleaning, especially to remove soapstone. When added to the scalding water, it facilitates removal of hair and scurf in hog slaughter and feathers and scurf in poultry slaughter. In petroleum production, it can be used as a dispersant in oil well drilling muds.

Potassium Chloride
KCl is used in medicine, scientific applications, food processing and in judicial execution through lethal injection.

Exposing McDonalds: "Chicken" Nuggets

There are 38 ingredients in the McDonalds "chicken" nuggets.

Interestingly, perhaps even moreso than the above, are ingredients actually purchased from chemical plants that go into the "chicken" nuggets.

Aluminum phosphate and calcium lactate help prevent the rancid vegetable fats in the nuggets from starting to rot visibly and starting to smell disgusting.
Dimethylpolysioxene is added to the oil to prevent starches (and, as you can see, starches aren't just present in the nuggets--they're outright abundant.) from binding.

Problem: this chemical is a carcinogen.

What's more--and you'll like this--it's actually flammable.

Tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) is derived from petroleum and is an antioxidant that is actually sprayed directly on the nugget most of the time to preserve freshness. For those of you familiar with TBHQ, it will come as no surprise to you that TBHQ is a form of butane. Butane is lighter fluid.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Well, at least it isn't dihydrogen oxide !!
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

[David Jamieson]

It's a friggin CHOICE to go up there and eat!!!

What part of personal responsibility is so hard to grasp???

And it's not like it's cheaper to eat at McDonalds vs eating at home. It's a choice people should have the freedom to make. Why do you think people like you should have the right to tell others what they can and cant eat?

again with the straw man, except this time you are accusing me of making the legislation? and you are still saying they are banning the food, which they aren't. In fact no one is banning any food.

you are weird dude.

nobody is banning the food. what is on the table is the unscrupulous advertising tactics and whether or not that should be allowed.

so, again, no one is stopping anyone from making poor food choices, but there is guidance being placed around advertising tactics that lure children into poor food choices which then they transmit to their parents who may or may not have the proper insight into feeding their kids and the toy makes it harder for the parents to parent becaus ethe child will insist with utter ignorance and so on.

As for your argument about the salt in new york, that is so lame, i don't know where to start.

anyway, the ban is putting toys as advertising into food that is not a good choice nutritionally. It's not a ban on the food.

It is still your choice to feed your children poorly, just, they aren't gonna get a toy with that.

[Reality_Check]

People like you disgust me.

And thus comes the ad hominem.

[kfson]

again with the straw man, except this time you are accusing me of making the legislation? and you are still saying they are banning the food, which they aren't. In fact no one is banning any food.

you are weird dude.

nobody is banning the food. what is on the table is the unscrupulous advertising tactics and whether or not that should be allowed.

so, again, no one is stopping anyone from making poor food choices, but there is guidance being placed around advertising tactics that lure children into poor food choices which then they transmit to their parents who may or may not have the proper insight into feeding their kids and the toy makes it harder for the parents to parent becaus ethe child will insist with utter ignorance and so on.

As for your argument about the salt in new york, that is so lame, i don't know where to start.

anyway, the ban is putting toys as advertising into food that is not a good choice nutritionally. It's not a ban on the food.

It is still your choice to feed your children poorly, just, they aren't gonna get a toy with that.

"unscrupulous advertising tactics"

[Drake]

75% of Americans are obese. Most teens are not fit for military service. The private ranchers are being driven out of business by corporate farms chock full of disease and unhealthy working conditions. Corporate socialism is destroying the very fabric of the rural midwest. Kids are getting fat, sick, and Type II Diabetes is the newest health trend. The public is being lied to, mislead, and generally raised from birth indoctrinated into a culture of fatty, processed, sugary foods, and the adult population is too stupid to do anything about it.

F^&% you and your Happy Meal toys.

[kfson]

Please G#d, don't let the advertising or government people brainwash me and make me do something I don't want to do. Also G#d, I can't control my little children. G#d, I'm waiting to come into your perfect world.

[Drake]

Please G#d, don't let the advertising or government people brainwash me and make me do something I don't want to do. Also G#d, I can't control my little children. G#d, I'm waiting to come into your perfect world.

Whatever... all the fat kids already proved that adults can't take care of their children, much less themselves. So no, my facetious friend, you CAN'T control your children, and it's already been proven.

[sanjuro_ronin]

jeez people, if someone wants to have a freaking hamburger once and awhile, what's the big freaking deal ?
If kids are getting obese from too much junk food ( I am sure it is NOT ONLY Mcd's) and way too little activity then it is the parents only fault for raising fat and inactive asswipe kids !

[Drake]

jeez people, if someone wants to have a freaking hamburger once and awhile, what's the big freaking deal ?
If kids are getting obese from too much junk food ( I am sure it is NOT ONLY Mcd's) and way too little activity then it is the parents only fault for raising fat and inactive asswipe kids !

And we pay for it. With or without the evil universal healthcare.