Sunday, November 14, 2004 Junk Food Ads Banned Junk Food Adverts 'Banished During Children's Tv' By James Lyons, PA Political Correspondent Junk food adverts will be banished beyond the 9pm watershed an attempt to fight Britain’s obesity crisis, it emerged tonight. A ban during children’s TV had been widely expected when the Government produces its health White Paper next week. But Health Secretary Dr John Reid is set to go further after Ofcom figures showed 70% of viewing by ...
To JoeMaggard DrS Nov 07, 11:58 PM [ Reply ] I am wodering...If McDonalds will not hire fat actors for commercials (this seems to violate the truth in advertising priciple to me)--have they ever tactfully persuaded any overweight employees to seek employment elsewhere? Is there anyway to find out? Or do they figure that once they entice a person into the store the sale is a done deal? How can a civilization that can land men on the mone, create computers and cell phones be so damn ignoran...
McDonald's Europe Stumbled Going After Kids, Young Men Tuesday October 19, 1:56 PM EDT DES MOINES, Iowa (Dow Jones)--McDonald's Corp. (MCD), admitting that its European business "ran into some challenges in the third quarter," plans to increase sales pitches to children and young adults there. Although high unemployment in Germany and other external factors were partly to blame for slowing momentum, the company admitted it had made internal errors in some of its marketing to key c...
Should You Sue McDonalds? By Robert Paul Reyes Oct. 9, 2004 When you wear a thong at the beach are you mistaken for a whale with a strategically placed piece of dental floss? Do you have to wear a watch on each wrist because your hefty bulk resides in two different time zones? Have you given up wearing pants and skirts and now sport only all-purpose muumuus? Do folks always scream in panic, "Oh God, it's an earthquake," when you walk past them? Do you use a truck scale to weigh your...
Staph germ sickened 120 at Piqua McDonald's, findings indicate By Nancy Bowman Dayton Daily News-Oct.8,2004 PIQUA | Preliminary test findings indicate that a staphylococcus organism, growing in an ice cream machine because of a mechanical malfunction, sickened more than 120 people, the city health director said Thursday. The machine used in preparing ice cream, shakes and sundaes at the McDonald's at 995 E. Ash St. was shut down Saturday and has been replaced with a new machin...
These facts? Uh, Not So Fun. 1. Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant 2. In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than 110 billion 3. McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain 4. French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America 5. You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac 6. In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an ...
Officials: At Least 10 Sick From Area McDonalds POSTED: 5:54 p.m. EDT October 3, 2004 PIQUA, Ohio -- Calls flood the Miami County Emergency Dispatch Center with people complaining of food poisoning. Piqua fire investigators say the source of the problem was a Mcdonald's restaurant on US 36 near I-75. The calls came in between 3-7pm Saturday evening. There were at least 10 ambulance calls, according to dispatchers, everyone was complaining of the same symptoms: vomiting, d...
Ice cream vendor ordered to cool off By David Conti TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, May 11, 2005 A Good Humor man was served 18 months' probation Tuesday for losing his cool with a foul-mouthed teenager. Nazzareno Didiano, 44, stopped dishing out peanut butter bars and Blue Bunnies last May 12 and began pummeling a pudgy-faced Bloomfield teen during a meltdown. The teen, now 14, told Allegheny County Judge John A. Zottola during a brief trial that Didiano grabbed him by the arm, ya...
Out of proportion Childhood obesity is a growing problem in the United States By Marisa Osorio Colon NYT Regional Newspapers TIPS TO FIGHT CHILDHOOD OBESITY The National Academies of Sciences Institute of Medicine recently released a report, “Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance,” and a series of committee recommendations on how to combat childhood obesity. Here are the changes the report recommends in your household: Encourage children to develop a healthy, var...
First watch Precious Mar 07, 07:49 AM [ Reply ] I watched this movie last night for the first time and it really got me thinking about responsibility... Why should McDonalds be held responsible for the products they sell? If someone wants to buy a supersize meal, then that is their choice. They don't have to - it is up to an individual to exercise their free will. Supposing supersize is taken off the menu (I don't know about US, I a, writing from the UK) then someone who is inclined t...
McDonald's operator pays $140,000 for youth employment violations Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An operator of McDonald's franchise restaurants in Birmingham, Gadsden and Anniston has paid $101,915 in civil penalties and $38,880 in back wages to 574 employees for youth employment law violations, federal regulators said Tuesday. CLP Corporation also agreed to future compliance with the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to a news release by the U.S...
Customer banished after hurling Egg McMuffin Saturday, February 05, 2005 By John Tunison The Grand Rapids Press HOLLAND -- Assault with an Egg McMuffin? A Zeeland man definitely wasn't "lovin' it" when he became so angry about getting the wrong order at McDonald's that he chucked a breakfast sandwich back at a worker. His drive-through tirade last October ended up costing him $600, three days in a work program and six months probation. Scott Rodgers, 46, was convicted of misdeme...
McDonald's says Surgeon Racist JoeMaggard Dec 21, 08:48 PM [ Reply ] Wanna know how low McDonald's will stoop in an effort to discredit an innocent person they find threatening...UNBELIEVABLE! McDonald's has the nerve to accuse a Doctor who saves lives daily of being a racist! Hell hath no fury like a corporation scorned The head of the Cleveland Clinic, heart surgeon Toby Cosgrove, has criticized the presence of a McDonald's in the lobby of the hospital renowned for its cardiac car...
McDonald's digs in to hold spot at Clinic Monday, November 22, 2004 Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove wants to rid the nation's premier heart hospital of its McDonald's franchise - purveyor of artery clogging burgers and fries. But McDonald's, which contends it now offers lots of healthy choices and will work with the Clinic to tweak its menu, isn't "lovin' it." McDonald's corporate veep Marty Ranft defended the franchise, and vowed in a letter to Cosgrove that "McDonald's...
McDonalds to Change Menu To Prolong CEO Lifespan In an attempt to prolong the tenure of their chief executives McDonalds corp. announced sweeping changes to their menus worldwide. Fat filled hamburgers will be replaced with healthy chick-pea-and-parsley burgers, beef-fat fries with wholemeal pita breads, while sugar loaded shakes are set to dissapear being replaced with freshly squeezed juice. A major advertising operation is planned to reflect the food changes. The re-branded entity w...