One example of the Nanny State not working

[Rubystars]

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/30/9124870-mcdonalds-finds-a-way-around-san-franciscos-happy-meal-ban

[briann]

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/30/9124870-mcdonalds-finds-a-way-around-san-franciscos-happy-meal-ban

Hear is the newly government endorsed Happy meal of San Francisco

[Rubystars]

LOL, although I doubt they would approve of the bread unless it was some kind of sprouted grain bread in San Fran. 

good one

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Happy Meals are just awful health-wise. They should be banned.

[muman613]

People can eat what they want. I am against bans like this. The free market and free will work together. Nobody can force you to be healthy. Nobody can force you to be good either.

[muman613]

Happy Meals are just awful health-wise. They should be banned.

We have ways to make you eat!

[muman613]

People can eat what they want. I am against bans like this. The free market and free will work together. Nobody can force you to be healthy. Nobody can force you to be good either.

This reminds me of the core moral learned from the story 'A Clockwork Orange'... A bad guy is given a modern scientific treatment which is supposed to remove his ability to do harm. In the end he is manipulated for political purposes {to prove that the Ludwigo Method really works}. At the end they un-do the treatment...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwork_orange

Part 2: The Ludovico Technique

Sentenced to prison for murder, Alex works in the prison library and gets taken under the wing of the prison chaplain, who mistakes Alex's Bible studies for stirrings of faith (Alex is actually reading Scripture for the violent passages). After Alex is blamed for beating a troublesome cellmate to death by his fellow cellmates, he is accepted into an experimental behaviour-modification treatment called the Ludovico Technique. The technique is a form of aversion therapy in which Alex is injected with a drug that makes him feel sick and is forced to watch graphically violent films, eventually conditioning him to suffer crippling bouts of nausea at the mere thought of violence. As an unintended consequence, the soundtrack to one of the films — Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — renders Alex unable to listen to his beloved classical music.

The effectiveness of the technique is demonstrated to a group of VIPs, who watch as Alex collapses before a walloping bully, and abases himself before a scantily-clad young woman whose presence has aroused his predatory sexual inclinations. Though the prison chaplain accuses the state of stripping Alex of free will, the government officials on the scene are pleased with the results and Alex is released into society.

[Rubystars]

Happy Meals are just awful health-wise. They should be banned.

I don't think they're necessarily unhealthy as an occasional treat, as long as the workers don't prepare them in an unsanitary way. It shouldn't be a part of anyone's regular diet. However I don't think it's the government's place to step in and tell people what they should and shouldn't eat or what kinds of foods a shop can or cannot sell. They are blaming McDonalds for marketing to kids but kids don't have jobs or paychecks, ultimately it's going to be the parents that decide whether to buy a Happy Meal for their kids.

Encouraging healthy eating is one thing but banning certain food items or banning a business from marketing them is wrong in a free society.

[Rubystars]

Just to add to the funny pictures in the thread: