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http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/28/fast.food.toys.california/index.html?hpt=Mid
Toys banned in some California fast food restaurants
By Sara Bonisteel, Special to CNN
April 28, 2010 4:28 p.m. EDT
About a dozen fast food restaurants in unincorporated areas of Silicon Valley are affected by the ordinance.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Ordinance limits toys on items over 200 calories or more than 480 milligrams of sodium
Toys also banned in meals with more than 485 calories.
Decision has angered the California Restaurant Association
Poll says 80 percent of residents don't think toy issue is important
(CNN) -- A California county on Tuesday became the first in the nation to ban toys from fast food kids' meals high in calories, fat, salt and sugar.
Santa Clara County supervisors voted 3-2 to ban the plastic goodies as promotions in meals with more than 485 calories.
County supervisor Ken Yeager said Tuesday that the ordinance "prevents restaurants from preying on children's love of toys to peddle high-calorie, high-fat, high-sodium kids' meals," and would help fight childhood obesity.
"This ordinance breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes," Yeager said. "Under this ordinance, restaurants are still permitted to give out toys. This ordinance merely imposes very specific, common-sense nutrition standards for children's meals that are linked to these incentives."
The ordinance will ban restaurants from giving away toys with meals that have more than 485 calories, more than 600 milligrams of sodium, more than 35 percent of total calories from fat or more than 10 percent of calories from added sugar. It would also limit toy giveaways on single food items with more than 200 calories or more than 480 milligrams of sodium.
But the decision, which affects about a dozen fast food restaurants in unincorporated areas of Silicon Valley, has angered the California Restaurant Association, which fought the proposal with ads in local newspapers. One asks "Who Made Politicians the Toy Police?" and shows a child in handcuffs in front of a cop.
The group commissioned a poll of local residents that found 80 percent didn't think the toy issue was an important one.
"From our perspective, we were echoing what our customers had to say. Obviously we felt that this proposal was excessive and I think purposely provocative," said Daniel Conway, the association's director of public affairs.
Conway said the association was disappointed local officials didn't come to them before creating the ordinance.
"We try to proactively engage with policy makers at the local level, the state level and the federal level," Conway said. "At the national level, our industry just played a critical role in passing a national menu labeling standard, so that now customers in many restaurants will be able to have in front of them the exact nutritional content of the various menu items."
Yeager said at a press conference Tuesday that he hopes the ordinance will spark other counties and states to pass similar legislation.
Restaurants will have a 90-day grace period beginning May 11 before the ordinance goes into effect.
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Now u care...the Dems will take everything...but now because ur cheesburgersand associated fast foods are in danger u care...its a little late.
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Now u care...the Dems will take everything...but now because ur cheesburgersand associated fast foods are in danger u care...its a little late.
I call em as I see am and not beholden to any party. Always have been that way. Hope that helps.
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Now u care...the Dems will take everything...but now because ur cheesburgersand associated fast foods are in danger u care...its a little late.
haha ;D
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Hope that helps.
no not really... even your can do no wrong hero Bill Maher thinks you're a turd on the food issue.
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TA crap like this is a daily occurence in NYC and getting worse.
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no not really... even your can do no wrong hero Bill Maher thinks you're a turd on the food issue.
Bill Maher is a turd on the food issue.
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U can't selectively decide that Dems and the thought police they represent are great and then in the next breath bitch about the empending loss ur ur crispy creme's. If u want to kill urself with whipped lard and corn dogs, be my guest....I could care less. At the same time my tax dollars aren't going to cover ur triple by-pass either. Its all about personal responsibility ....the Dem party does a poor job with that idea. Sure, elements of the Republican party over do it as well...but as a Conservative...I feel u can do what the hell u want. Whatever that is better not affect me, better not cost me a dime, i don't need to see it smell it or deal with it. If u want to eat cheesburgers have at it, if u want to snort coke off the backs of hookers and then strangle em...more power to u..enjoy prison rape. The left wants to control everything..u voted for the Dems...now deal with it.
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Dems doing what Dems do best - Command, Control, Regulation, Mandate, Tax,
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Bill Maher is a turd on the food issue.
didn't you say something about him always being right? ::)
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Imagine that pudgy out of shape pasty pale faced idiot Maher telling anyone else how to eat?The f'n guy looks like a cadavar.
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LOL TA:
vision isnt important for driving...
knowing basic traffic laws isnt important for driving...
you dont need a license to drive an 800+cc scooter...
::)
go back to posting under your jezz account TA at least then you try to keep a standard of intelligence with your posts ;)
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those toys help let adults get a nice meal in peace.
anyone who texts and drives should be punched in nose.
anyone with illegal blood alcohol level while driving should be beaten.
illegals should have legs broken and dropped of in Columbia or Peru.
shorten unemployment period and require drug, alcohol testing for welfare.
more lib positions from 240!
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those toys help let adults get a nice meal in peace.
anyone who texts and drives should be punched in nose.
anyone with illegal blood alcohol level while driving should be beaten.
illegals should have legs broken and dropped of in Columbia or Peru.
shorten unemployment period and require drug, alcohol testing for welfare.
more lib positions from 240!
arent you the one who has been telling ppl they arent patriotic or whatever b/c they are willing to give up freedom to gain protection?
youre such a fuking tool man ::)
hope you feel that person who drives drunk and hits someones wife is patriotic for not letting someone take his freedom ::)
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ben franklin said that, actually.
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ben franklin said that, actually.
and?
if you or he felt that way you should be against any laws
so next time someone you know gets hit by a drunk driver I sincerely hope you go shake his hand and thank him for not letting anyone take away his freedom...
fuking tool ::)
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and?
if you or he felt that way you should be against any laws
so next time someone you know gets hit by a drunk driver I sincerely hope you go shake his hand and thank him for not letting anyone take away his freedom...
fuking tool ::)
LOL!!
240 and that fag adonis getting bitch slapped in this thread.
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and?
if you or he felt that way you should be against any laws
so next time someone you know gets hit by a drunk driver I sincerely hope you go shake his hand and thank him for not letting anyone take away his freedom...
fuking tool ::)
and in addition, the drunk driver is an illegal alien that was previously stopped for speeding, and would have been deported, but the Police Officer was not allowed to ask for his proof of Citizenship.
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Like I said - this whole issue is going to be 240's 2010 "Palins' Baby" episode.
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Like I said - this whole issue is going to be 240's 2010 "Palins' Baby" episode.
Here in Houston, you cant go more than a week with out seeing on the local news where someone or some family was killed by an drunk driver that was an illegal alien, that had been stopped and arrested many times before , but was never deported.
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Every day we have the same stories in NY as well, also with child rapes, molestation, etc.
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Why is this so bad for everyone? Does anyone here live in Santa Clara? It's a very liberal leaning area so a move like this does not surprise me nor does it bother me. I don't live there, it's a county that made the decision and as far as i'm aware TA lives on the east coast. His opinion on this matter means zilch as it does not effect him.
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Why is this so bad for everyone? Does anyone here live in Santa Clara? It's a very liberal leaning area so a move like this does not surprise me nor does it bother me. I don't live there, it's a county that made the decision and as far as i'm aware TA lives on the east coast. His opinion on this matter means zilch as it does not effect him.
Kinda like your "opinion" on the new Arizona immigration law ?
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Kinda like your "opinion" on the new Arizona immigration law ?
exactly...
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Kinda like your "opinion" on the new Arizona immigration law ?
Perhaps, but then yours doesn't mean anything either does it debbie from dallas?
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Perhaps, but then yours doesn't mean anything either does it debbie from dallas?
Wrong again dip shit, I never said someones opinion didn't matter, you did.
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Wrong again dip shit, I never said someones opinion didn't matter, you did.
hahaha well played debbie
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hahaha well played debbie
Now that you have shown yourself to be a hypocrite, run along before I make an even bigger fool of you.
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KC has never met or seen a command and control govt regulation he did not love.
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Now that you have shown yourself to be a hypocrite, run along before I make an even bigger fool of you.
Oh please debbie don't get ahead of yourself here ::)