[Vladiator]

I agree that banning Ronald McDonald is just plain wrong.

Here's my story: About two months ago, I went into the Burger King here, and standing in line at the counter was this huge (must have been 350+ lbs) woman and her three incredibly morbidly obese kids, ordering piles and piles of Whoppers, fries and milkshakes. If you could put it back together, there was an entire cow on those trays.

When I got to the counter and heard her ask whether they could have extra sauce on the Whoppers, I could just feel my own chloseterol level "kick it up a notch."

I walked out, went and had a salad down the street, and have not retunred.

[Willie Green]

The anti-obesity activists' first target is to "get advertising and vending machines out of schools..."
Steve Grover of the National Restaurant Association calmly responds that many schools have stopped requiring physical education and nutrition training.

Gotta agree with the food-police up to a point, just to bring sanity back to the schools. Left-wing extremists scuttled traditional values with their agendas to ban dodge-ball and promote alternative lifestyles. This looks like a good approach to swing the education pendulum back in the conservative direction.
Libertarian bozos will disagree, of course.
Afterall, Ronald McD is one of their own: a real clown, not a true conservative!

[peteram]

To compare food to tobacco is unfair. Tobacco, even used in small amounts (moderation) can still result in health problems down the road. (After all, you ARE ingesting the byproduct of burning embers). Food, used in moderation, will not.
Anything that is mis-used (or abused) will cause problems.

The problem here is people who cannot control themselves or their kids. Deal with that first.

[RepoGirl]

Let's hear it for the food nazis. While I don't agree with it, I could almost see the logic in requesting that a cute cartoon animal not be used to advertise tobacco products. But French Fries?????? Get over it...

It's the law of advertising, do what you can to promote your product. For the love of pete--it's legal and constitutional to do so. Bud had Spuds MacKenzie, Burger King had the Burger King (many, many, many moons ago, of course.), Frito Lay had WC Frito. Heck, K-Mart even had Fat-head Rosie...

The food/tobacco/lifestyle nazis will stop at nothing in order to promote their control-freak agendas. Obviously, no one is able to control themselves when faced with mind-controlling cartoon characters. Evil, I tells ya, EVIL!!!

Buyer beware, says I.

Regards

Repogirl

[Clemenza]

Ronald Mcdonald always gave me the creeps. Why does the McDonalds corporation promote a "hamburgler" as a role model for our children? Just what is "Grimace" anyway?

Remember, anytime you hear somebody use the phrase "public health," rest assured the trial lawyers and politicians are right around the corner. When the county I live in voted to sue gun manufacturers, for example, they cited "public health."

[tm22721]

Hydrogen fuel cell cars are next !!

BUMP

[Sam Cree]

"At bottom, these do-gooders hate the fact that American consumers are allowed to buy what they like"

One of the hallmarks of socialism is that it seeks to regulate every facet of life (for the "common good," of course)" so no surprise here.

Although I think that fast food has contributed greatly to increasing American obesity, a more important culprit may be the low fat craze, which causes people to consume large quantities of starch, which converts into sugar, then fat.

[aruanan]

I think that food Nazis should be force fed chocolates, whipped cream, cream cheese, and sticks of butter until their livers explode.