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Playthings In Take Out Meals Limited By Happy Meal Ban
In a measure that was first introduced in Oct and voted on today, the so-called "Happy Meal ban" has been passed. The Healthy Meal Incentive act limits what meals can include free toys. Santa Clara County has enacted a comparable Happy Meal Ban, despite heavy lobbying of various restaurant associations.
Happy Meal Restriction focuses on high-fat meals
The San Francisco’s board of supervisors passed the “Happy Meal Ban” on Tuesday. They were thinking about the nutritional content of a meal when doing this. Restaurants can’t put toys in meals. This is only for some meals though. A meal has to have less than 600 calories, such as the drink, if a company wants to offer a toy. Less than 35 percent of the calories within the meal can come from fat, as well. The meal must have vegetables in it too. There has to be a half cup. In short, in order to offer a free toy, a restaurant has to have a meal that follows basic good nutrition.
Meals aren’t prohibited with the Happy Meal Ban
It isn’t true although the “Happy Meal Ban” is just a Healthy Meal Motivation. There is just one thing that is involved within the Healthy Meal Motivation. Meals with high fat and high sugar cannot have a toy offered with them. The sides of the debate are very clear. The line is seen by many. Numerous think that the consumer no longer has a choice when removing the toy from the meal. Numerous say educating parents on giving their children better nutrition is a better route rather than making legislation to force it. There had been a large majority that passed the city legislation though.
Pursuing in other’s footsteps with the Healthy Meal Motivation Act
The Healthy Meal Incentive legislation isn't the first legislation to try to control what cities eat. Trans-fats in restaurants were banned in The Big Apple City in 2006. All of the restaurants were required to lose all trans-fats. These incorporated McDonalds, Taco Bell, Dunkin donuts, Burger King, Arby’s, Applebee’s, Cheesecake Factory and numerous others. Even Crisco shortening has been reformulated to eliminate trans fats. Will limiting the food we eat with the Healthy Meal Incentive Act be good? Ought to we keep away from these acts altogether?
Citations
BanTransFats.com
bantransfats.com/transfatnews.html
LA Times
articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/28/business/la-fi-happy-meals-20100428
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