Keeping the Lawsuit Factory Humming
June 23, 2010
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is threatening to go to court to battle one of the great scourges of our age: Happy Meals. In a letter to McDonald’s, the self-appointed advocacy group claims:
“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.”
As the father of two “unpaid drones,” I guess I should be happy the Center is looking out for me and the millions of other hapless parents who dutifully march through the golden arches every day to quiet our kids with a few McNuggets and a fifty-cent piece of plastic. And the Center wants to make it clear they are on our side:
“At some point parents get worn down. They don’t always want to be saying no to their children. We feel like an awful lot of parents would be relieved if this one pressure was removed from them.”
But is getting kids to stop nagging their parents really the work of America’s legal system? If so, I’ve got a long list of lawsuits to keep the Center busy.