Where Happy Meals are now illegal
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A California county is stopping restaurants from using toys to lure children to high-calorie, salt-laden food such as popular “Happy Meals” hawked by fast-food giant McDonald’s.
Elected officials in the county of Santa Clara, in the heart of technology center Silicon Valley south of San Francisco, voted Tuesday to enact the ban to fight an “obesity epidemic” sweeping California and the United States.
Read more here: California county bans fast-food toys to stem child obesity
