Toy ban: Part 2
It's official.
San Francisco has banned restaurants from offering toys in meals that are not nutritious. Tween Tuesday's Liz Atwood wrote about this earlier this week, which has generated a ton of opinions on whether the city government has gone too far.
Here's what the ban means, according to MarketWatch:
Starting Dec. 1, 2011, restaurants would be able to give away kid-friendly items only if the accompanying food and drink had less than 600 calories, with less than 35% of those total calories coming from fat. (The proposal makes exceptions for "good" fat that comes from nuts, seeds and such.) The meal’s sodium content has to be below 640 milligrams, and the portion of trans fat must be under 0.5 grams. The meal also must include at least a half cup of fruit and three-quarters of a cup of vegetables, although breakfast meals can contain fewer.
I haven't seen McDonald's response or how the fast-food joint plans to react to this ban.
Categories: Health, Parenting in general, Teens
Comments
you stink
Posted by: meeeeemi | November 11, 2010 10:16 AM
Again. Fredoom slips away,little by little.
Sometimes hardly even noticeable at all. And yet.
The food police, the fashion police, the PC crowd and on and on. If there are toys in foods that are not deemed nutritious - so what? That's what parents are for! Oh wait, I forgot. Parents don't need to be responsible. Someone else can do it for them. The schools, the government.
I've always thought the toys given in meals/food purchases were cheesy to begin with. But I defend the right for them to be there and for customers to have a choice. Not a decision foisted on them by someone else.
Don't we have enough serious issues to cope with on a day to day basis beside a toy car given with a hamburger purchase?
Posted by: ruth | November 11, 2010 10:41 AM
keep the toy, Ban the meal.
Posted by: harry | November 11, 2010 10:56 AM