not so happy meals
The line, it has been crossed.
In an effort to keep San Franciscans healthy, the city is looking to ban toys in kids' meals under a new law proposed yesterday if, according to The Chronicle, the food contains too much flavor fat, sugar or salt.
"Our legislation will encourage restaurants that offer unhealthy meals marketed toward children and youth to offer healthier food options with incentive items or toys," cackled Supervisor Eric Mar, chief sponsor of the legislation. "It will help protect the public's health, reduce costs to our health care system and promote healthier eating habits."
Anyway, this obviously socialist regime-based legislation would not outright prohibit toy giveaways, "but limit them to menu items that meet strict nutrition guidelines." That is to say, "no single item could contain more than 200 calories or 480 milligrams of sodium. An entire meal could have no more than 600 calories." Which means: fruit, vegetables. Sob.
While the restaurant industry is calling this punishment for serving poison to kids, this just isn't the case.
"This is not an anti-toy ordinance; this is a pro-healthy-meal ordinance," Rajiv Bhatia, director of occupational and environmental health for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, explained to The Chronicle. "The assumption is that restaurants can meet these standards."
Oh, San Francisco. Tsk. Will you not stop until children are forced to eat -- shudder -- carob? Is that what you want? CAROB?! Because your SFist editor was forced to stomach healthy meals at lunch -- bags packed with carob, icky seasonal greens, and oily natural peanut butter -- and we have yet to forgive our parents for such systematic lunchtime abuse.
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