{"id":435,"date":"2011-07-17T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2011-07-10T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T05:40:24","slug":"mcdonalds-grimaces-at-happy-meal-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/mcdonalds-grimaces-at-happy-meal-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald’s grimaces at Happy Meal lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A LAWSUIT that seeks to stop McDonald’s from selling Happy Meals should be dismissed because parents can always prohibit their children from consuming the food, the hamburger giant said in a court filing on Monday.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit claims McDonald’s unfairly uses toys to lure children into its restaurants. The plaintiff, Monet Parham – a Sacramento, mother of two – claims the company’s advertising violates California consumer protection laws.<\/p>\n

The Happy Meal has been a huge hit for McDonald’s – making the company one of the world’s largest toy distributors – and spawning me-too offerings at most other fast-food chains.<\/p>\n

But lately it also has come under fire from public health officials, parents and lawmakers who are frustrated with rising childhood obesity rates and weak anti-obesity efforts from restaurant operators, which are largely self-regulated.<\/p>\n

Parham, who filed suit last December, is represented by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition advocacy group.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, Ms Parham admits she frequently tells her children ‘no’ when they ask for Happy Meals, McDonald’s said in a court filing late on Monday.<\/p>\n

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A LAWSUIT that seeks to stop McDonald’s from selling Happy Meals should be dismissed because parents can always prohibit their children from consuming the food, the hamburger giant said in a court filing on Monday. The lawsuit claims McDonald’s unfairly uses toys to lure children into its restaurants. The plaintiff, Monet Parham – a Sacramento, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}