9-Year-Old Asks McDonald’s CEO: ‘Don’t You Want Kids To Be Healthy?’ (activist, Canada)

[ATTC]

Originally Posted by imcurious

I can't believe McDonald's is still in business. If people were smart, they would market healthy fast food.

Someone wealthy like Bill Gates could set up something like this for charity

Truth is they don't really care about the masses.

[ericfriis12]

Hi,
There's healthy items on all menus, and lots of people choose any healthy item for eg carrot juice because it is the best of human eyes.

[mmmjv]

Good Lord she's only 9. Why all the contempt towards a little girl

[Tilt11]

Maybe this kids parents should teach their kid that its the parents responsibility not the companies. Its not the company who picks what you eat. But of course the kids parents who put her up to it, are probably liberal morons.

[JanND]

Originally Posted by kayanne

I wasn't sure if I should post this in economics, health, food, or here in controversies.

9-Year-Old Asks McDonald's CEO To Stop Marketing To Children: 'Don't You Want Kids To Be Healthy?' | ThinkProgress

I'd like to know what you would do if YOU were the CEO of a major fast food chain, and what you would have said to this little girl? How would you balance your responsibility to share holders / franchise owners with an ever-growing concern about children's health and obesity? Is junk food so deeply entrenched into our culture that there is no turning back?

I think it is the parents responsibility. I haven't seen anyone from any fast food restaurant forcing their menus on folks in my lifetime.

[PatDJohns]

In all seriousness, who goes to Mc Donald's to eat healthy? I mean, c'mon! When I eat at McDonalds its similar to a night of drinking, just once in awhile when you need a break from life.

[tluv00]

My response:

"It's a free market kid. You or your family don't want to eat here fine. We have 9 billion other people on this planet that we can market to."

[Vic 2.0]

Originally Posted by tluv00

My response:

"It's a free market kid. You or your family don't want to eat here fine. We have 9 billion other people on this planet that we can market to."

That's just it, these people think it's up to them to save the other 9 billion by painting chains like McDonald's as evil. In reality, of course, they're only hurting them by teaching them to blame their actions (Yes, going to McDonald's is first and foremost their action) on someone else.

[le roi]

Originally Posted by Some_Random_Guy

You can be healthy as a horse, even eating McDonalds every single day of the week. Who cares what that little snot-nose thinks?

considering a horse has a lifespan of about 30 years, i think you're exactly right.

[Cav Scout wife]

Originally Posted by Katiana

I don't take comments from 9 year olds about adult issues seriously. They are just parroting what their parents have said.

Maybe the kids you know aren't capable of personal intellectual though on their own, but I know quite a few kids in this area, even younger than this girl that have formed their own opinions of various topics.

Originally Posted by weltschmerz

Good for her! I can't believe some of the comments on this thread.

Originally Posted by kayanne

I think a lot of people are missing the point of the article. I would assume that the family in this article does avoid McDonald's, but the fact remains that McDs heavily markets to children. Not all children have parents who know (or care) about nutrition, so these kids grow up hooked on the junk food that has been pushed on them via advertisements, toys, and other gimmicks.

Cigarette companies are not allowed to market to children, but junk food and fast food companies are. It's that marketing which was the point of the girl's presentation.

And I get that the girl was steered this direction by her mother. It doesn't make her a "brat" and it doesn't mean there is no merit in what she said. I can't believe how many people slammed this little girl, without bothering to address the questions I asked in my OP. And yes, I get that Walmart and other places sell a lot of junk food too. The marketing of that junk to children is worth discussing as well.

Bravo and well said!

Originally Posted by Kenneth-Kaunda

The CEO of Macds could not give a rats about any child - all he cares about is profit, profit and profit!

if he could make money from a cancer inducing chemical put into the burgers he would be all the more merry.

Ever seen "Supersize Me"? McDonalds DOES introduce chemicals into their food that creates addictions, and only their bottled water and diet soda DON'T have added sugars.

Originally Posted by SourD

The "child" isn't questioning anything. Her selfish parents put her up to it.

Proof?

Originally Posted by nmnita

Can't rep you again, but most mature people realize: 1-some adult ;put her up to this: 2-she doesn't have clue or doesn't care about business and profits and 3-there is a time and place for kids to be heard and a 9 year old isn't grown up enough to even understand this, much less ask the questions. If a jr in highschool had asked I would understand a lot more.

Again, maybe some of the children you know aren't capable of it, but I know kids that are. It's not hard to look around a see what goes on in your world, and think some of it isn't right, and question it.