{"id":2992,"date":"2011-05-19T19:28:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2011-05-19T19:28:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:28:51","slug":"big_brother_goes_after_ronald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2992","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Goes After Ronald McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/05\/19\/us-mcdonalds-idUSTRE74I70B20110519\">Reuters<\/a>&nbsp;reported today that:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Shareholders of the world&#8217;s largest fast-food chain resoundingly rejected a proposal that would have required it to issue a report outlining its role in the childhood obesity epidemic, saying customers were free to make their own dietary choices.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I may be going against the tide here, but I don&#8217;t hold McDonald&#8217;s to be responsible for childhood obesity.&nbsp; There is no one pointing a gun at parents&#8217; heads and telling them to drive to McDonald&#8217;s for dinner.&nbsp; Ronald McDonald is a cute mascot, but he is not responsible for obesity in America.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you are looking for a cause of obesity in America, I have a few suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>\n<div>schools that have eliminated recess<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>schools that have banned dodge ball<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>schools that have banned tag<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>video games<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>working mothers that simply don&#8217;t have the time to shop for and prepare nutritious meals or don&#8217;t have the knowledge of what makes a balanced diet<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>the food pyramid that we were sold on for so many years that is actually the eating pattern used to fatten cattle<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>school systems&nbsp;that no longer require physical education classes in high school<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If anyone has any other suggestions, I would love to hear them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters&nbsp;reported today that: &#8220;Shareholders of the world&#8217;s largest fast-food chain resoundingly rejected a proposal that would have required it to issue a report outlining its role in the childhood obesity epidemic, saying customers were free to make their own dietary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2992\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}