San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant meals for children.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed the law on Tuesday on a veto-proof 8-to-3 vote. It takes effect on December 1.
The law, like an ordinance passed earlier this year in nearby Santa Clara County, would require that restaurant kids' meals meet certain nutritional standards before they could be sold with toys!
Just in time for Christmas, A new twist on Toy Story from the Dark Side. The eminent Board of Supervisors in San Francisco, has just made their city the first in the nation to take away free toys for children in McDonald's Happy Meals, because the meal they're eating is deemed too fattening.
Two days after the mid-term elections, and after having read ad infinitum Personal PAC's literature accusing pro-life candidates of wanting to put women in jail who have had abortions, a question comes to mind, regarding this logic and the new logic of banning toys in children's food.
If San Francisco is really serious about outlawing toys in Happy Meals, does that same logic equate? Are they saying that kids will be arrested for eating McDonald's food? If their logic concerning women being thrown in jail for having an abortion is a reasonable argument, does that mean we can apply the same reasoning to this new San Francisco ordinance?
You can't have it both ways guys. If pro-life candidates can be accused of wanting to put women in jail because of their opposition to abortion, then these food police must be subject to the same logic.
It seems really hypocritical that we live in a society where food can be outlawed, while the slaughter of millions of the innocent unborn is the protected law of the land. If we are truly concerned about the health and welfare of our children regarding what they eat, we should be just as concerned about their health and welfare, while they are still in their mother's wombs.
But more than this, pro-lifers are routinely subjected to the dual nonsensical arguments that either, a) they cannot be serious about protecting unborn life in law unless they advocate jailing women who seek abortions; or, b) they are just such horrid, evil, extremist ogres that they want to put poor innocent women behind bars for simply wanting to have control over their own bodies.
OK, so now the shoe is on the other foot: either the San Francisco Board of Supervisors isn't really serious about this measure, as evidenced by their refusal to throw kids in jail who buy Happy Meals, or else they are such evil, extremist, interventionist ogres that they want to put little Jimmy and little Mary (oops, sorry! San Francisco! -- little Atticus and little Moonglow) in San Quentin.
Come on you guys! Admit it! You'll be rounding 'em up like that creepy guy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang before you're done, won't you?
(You'll be mandating condoms in Happy Meals next, too, won't you?)
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