Comments on: The Guy From CSPI Isn’t Toying With McDonald’s

By: Darth Chaos

Darth Chaos — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:20:51 +0000

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By: Myrna

Myrna — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:08:37 +0000

I am also a Mean Mommy: Ever since my son was a baby, it has been a rule that if a food is advertised on TV, or has a cartoon character or mis-spelled words (i.e. “Kool”)on the package, I won’t buy it.

But how are you able to resist the whining?

By: Pegi

Pegi — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:53:44 +0000

Obviously I have to expand Mean Mommy School. My children now range from 23 to 30, but they can tell you about it.
No one is mean enough to be a Mommy without special training, so there is a school to teach mothers to be Mean Mommies.
Rule #1. The answer is no–no matter what the question.
Rule #2. If you ask for it, I won’t buy it.
There are many others in the same vein.
I don’t think that they EVER had a Happy Meal.
The chicken nuggets in the children’s school lunch may very well be partly soy. McDonald’s are all chicken.

Good point. Our government thinks soy is health food.

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:50:55 +0000

Has anyone considered that CSPI may just want the money from the lawsuit? I’ll have to look up how they are funded.

Let us know what you find out.

By: Bullinachinashop

Bullinachinashop — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:16:32 +0000

CSPI is really over-estimating how kids respond to these ads. When I take my 6 year old daughter to McDonald’s I ask “Do you want a happy meal?” She says “No, I want a hamburger, french fries, soda and a toy”.

She pretty much expects that from any restaurant we ever bring her to… unless she sees a sushi place at the mall, then hamburgers be damned! McDonald’s has absolutely no elevated status in her mind, despite any ads they may have thrown in her direction.

CSPI thinks we’re all a bunch of helpless idiots.

By: Bushrat

Bushrat — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:16:40 +0000

@ Shmaltzy. I’ll welcome the calorie counting menus. That way I can get the most fat for my dollar. The NSW gov is so helpful in helping me save a few cents at McDonalds but I can’t help but think that maybe State governments are redundant if this is the most pressing issue.

By: Shmaltzy

Shmaltzy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:22:53 +0000

God help us all! My home state here in Australia is looking to bring in the law for fast food establishments to display calorie counts on their menus.

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/fast-food-outlets-to-show-calorie-count-20100630-zjky.html

“Jane Martin, senior policy adviser for the Obesity Policy Coalition, says clearer labelling on menus will help consumers “sort the fat from the fiction at a glance”.

LOL!! …”sort the fat from the fiction”… these guys are hilarious…in more ways than one.

All based on the idea that people don’t know fast food is high in calories, which is a load of bologna.

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:38:19 +0000

My grandmother used to chime in whenever we watched television and the ads were misleading–”That doll doesn’t really walk by herself” or “Why would any person want to eat something that a cartoon tiger says is good?”

My children had choices of snacks in the grocery store (no junk) and my daughter would invariably choose herring. I hate it when I hear parents make the excuse that their children won’t eat this or that. How do they know? These kids don’t have the experience to say what they really like or don’t like.

That’s right. And ultimately, my kids can’t eat anything without my approval. They don’t go shopping or drive themselves to McDonald’s.

By: mrfreddy

mrfreddy — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:12:44 +0000

watched a top chef episode yesterday that had me tearing my hair out and “duh” slapping my forehead over and over… the challenge was to produce a healthy kids school lunch on a limited budget… all fine and good, but it was tragic to hear what their ideas of healthy were… yogurt over mayo… and oatmeal based taco shell… no fat this, low fat over and over again…. to be fair, their idea of healthy also included no sugar. It seems like the anti-sugar message from the low carb movement is filtering thru, but the “fat is good” message isn’t getting thru at all.

To top it off, the guest judge presiding over this nonsense was the head nutritionist or whatever from the White House. Prattering on about teaching kids to eat this way now so that they will eat healthily for the rest of their lives…. I’m thinking, yeah, mal-noursihing kids so that they’ll be weak and soft boned and disease proned…. for the rest of their lives…

sorry for the rant, had to get that out of my system. I feel better now.

Based on what I’m seeing in the new Dietary Guidelines, that’s an accurate assessment. They’re finally admitting sugar is bad news, but can’t shake the idea that saturated fat is bad, or that whole grains are health food.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:39:15 +0000

Is it possible to file a lawsuit against CSPI for the hydrogenated oil fiasco? How many people were and are hurt by that nonsense? I hate frivolous lawsuits, but, I think we should sue them out of existence.

And their little dog too!

I don’t know if it’s possible, but I’d love to see it happen.