Category: News Author : James Johnson Posted: April 29, 2010
Tags : childhood obesity, fast food, Kids Meals, obesity
Santa Clara County in California this week announced that they have begun limiting which kids meals could give toys to children based on their level of calories, fat, salt and sugar levels.
Supervisors passed a 3-2 vote which bans children’s toys in meals that have more than 485 calories.
CNN spoke with county supervisor Ken Yeager who said the new ordinance, “prevents restaurants from preying on children’s love of toys to peddle high-calorie, high-fat, high-sodium kids’ meals.”
Under the city ordinance meals must be under 485 calories, 600 milligrams of sodium and have no more than 35 percent of calories from fat and no more than 10 percent of calories from added sugar.
The ordinance also limit toy giveaways on single food items with more than 200 calories or more than 480 milligrams of sodium.
What do you think about the ban? Leave us your thoughts.
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Jun 4, 2010
This ban takes away the rights and responsibilities of parents to make the correct choices for their children. This matter should not be taken over by the government and the parenting duties should be left where they belong. According to a survey conducted by the California Restaurant Association, 87% of Santa Clara County residents feel lawmakers are not better informed to make decisions about what kind of food sold in restaurants is healthy and nutritious. We need to let the government know about our views against this legislation before it gets passed elsewhere.
Eric Mar, member of the Board of Supervisors for the City and County of San Francisco, is asking for legislation similar to Santa Clara County’s happy meal toy ban. Call and tell him NO.
Eric Mar
415-554-7410
Eric.l.mar@sfgov.org
Mar’s request to ban kids meal toys can be found in this article from the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/28/MNLA1D5QFV.DTL
A leading kid-focused marketing agency for the restaurant industry, Creative Consumer Concepts (C3), has taken a stand on this issue. Bob Cutler, CEO, states that “unfortunately, banning kids meal toys from restaurants will not resolve childhood obesity. C3 has been educating, advocating and executing healthy food options for kids and parents and will continue to commit to supporting this issue.”Read more in their position paper on the toy ban:
Oct 13, 2010
wow you are a fucking hippy……… they aren’t saying anything but not giving away toys on high intake meals it’s like this if tobacco was to do it would you bitch then