Fox McCloud
06-22-2010, 05:10 PM
WASHINGTON - A Washington-based consumer advocacy group threatened to file a lawsuit against McDonald's Tuesday, charging that the fast food chain 'unfairly and deceptively' markets toys to children through its Happy Meals.
"McDonald's marketing has the effect of conscripting America's children into an unpaid drone army of word-of-mouth marketers, causing them to nag their parents to bring them to McDonald's," Stephen Gardner of the Center for Science in the Public Interest wrote to the heads of the chain in a letter announcing the lawsuit.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37853089/ns/business-consumer_news/?gt1=43001
Wow, this gets headline news and is considered important, while other things like foreign policy, economic debates, etc go unnoticed.
Seriously, I hate advocacy groups, I really do...
"McDonald's marketing has the effect of conscripting America's children into an unpaid drone army of word-of-mouth marketers, causing them to nag their parents to bring them to McDonald's," Stephen Gardner of the Center for Science in the Public Interest wrote to the heads of the chain in a letter announcing the lawsuit.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37853089/ns/business-consumer_news/?gt1=43001
Wow, this gets headline news and is considered important, while other things like foreign policy, economic debates, etc go unnoticed.
Seriously, I hate advocacy groups, I really do...