Posted on 05/18/2011 10:40:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
McDonald's Under Pressure to Fire Ronald By JULIE JARGON
More than 550 health professionals and organizations have signed a letter to McDonald's Corp. asking the maker of Happy Meals to stop marketing junk food to kids and retire Ronald McDonald.
The letter, slated to run in the form of full-page ads in six metropolitan newspapers around the country on Wednesday, acknowledges that "the contributors to today's (health) epidemic are manifold and a broad societal response is required. But marketing can no longer be ignored as a significant part of this massive problem."
"We are committed to responsible advertising and take our communications to children very seriously," McDonald's said in a statement. "We understand the importance of children's health and nutrition, and are committed to being part of the dialogue and solution. We serve high quality food, and our Happy Meals offer choice and variety in portions just for kids. Parents tell us they appreciate our Happy Meal choices."
The campaign is organized by the nonprofit watchdog group Corporate Accountability International, which has also targeted tobacco companies and beverage makers like Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. for the environmental impact of plastic bottles.
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Never did trust that guy....
Wake up! It was all a bad dream. President Palin will make it all better...
I haven’t eaten at Micky D’s for years and years, but I’m getting a hankerin’ for a Big Mac as we speak.
(without the bun — I eat low carb)
Bump.
Sounds like a spin-off from the radical leftist CSPI.
“McDonald’s Under Pressure to Fire Ronald”
Obama hates that he has competition, after all THAT clown is more popular thn he is.
My small town has two Wendy's, at least four McD's, one or two Burger Kings, KFC, Taco Bell, Arby's, Boston Kitchen, Maryland Fried Chicken, all the crap at the mall food court, etc. We even have drive-through Chinese.
I say 86 them all and put those people on the dole. Not to mention the distributors, delivery men, grounds-maintenance men, etc. etc. We know the drill.
Can people be more stupid? I mean really, can they? So many (idiot Liberals) are taken in by this BS. As if we have no free will.
Next time you go past a drive through, tell me how many minors you see driving those cars.
Morons!
First, may I offer my deepest sympathy for your being allergic to ketchup and mayo.
You’re right, and we have to scrub the idiot liberals out of the upper echelon of our country and get some common-sense thinking back into our schools and governing bodies.
It’s not going to be easy.
Your screen name reminds me of an old friend and former boss, a sailor who lived on his boat in Marian del Rey, CA. He joked that his nickname was “Sailbad the Sinner.”
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