Parents sue McDonalds over Happy Meals
The Center for Science in the Public Interest says Happy Meals are responsible for overweight children. The Washington-based consumer advocacy group threatened to file a lawsuit against McDonald’s, charging that the fast food chain “unfairly and deceptively” markets the toys to children.
“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,” CSPI’s Stephen Gardner wrote to the heads of the chain in a letter announcing the lawsuit.
The center, which has filed dozens of lawsuits against food companies in recent years, is hoping the publicity and the threat of a lawsuit will force McDonald’s to negotiate with them on the issue. The group announced the lawsuit in the letter to McDonald’s 30 days before filing it in hopes that the company will agree to stop selling the toys before a suit is filed.
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