{"id":547415,"date":"2010-04-29T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20133ed0e2987970b"},"modified":"2010-04-29T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T14:33:45","slug":"its-official-santa-clara-county-bans-toys-from-fatty-kids-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547415","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official: Santa Clara County bans toys from fatty kids&#8217; meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2010\/04\/its-official-santa-clara-county-bans-toys-from-fatty-kids-meals.html\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Happy-meal\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e20133ed0e284f970b \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e20133ed0e284f970b-200wi\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Meals are officially sad in California&#8217;s Santa Clara County. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2010\/04\/county-in-california-looking-to-ban-mcdonalds-happy-meal-toys.html\">After debating the issue<\/a>, the board of supervisors in that Silicon Valley area has voted 3-2 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-happy-meals-20100428,0,6355743.story\" >ban toys and other promotions from high-fat, sodium-loaded kids meals<\/a>. The new ordinance won&#8217;t take effect for 90 days, giving fast-food restaurants a chance to bring their kids&#8217; offerings up to a better nutritional standard. (Hint: If it hasn&#8217;t happened by now, I doubt three months will make much difference.) The ban doesn&#8217;t cover a large geographical area\u2014just the unincorporated parts of the county\u2014but the repercussions might be felt far and wide. It&#8217;s a bit of a test case for other municipalities that might want to fight the child-obesity epidemic by attacking the trinkets that come with burgers and fries. The delay in enacting the ban means a number of summer movie tie-ins will still happen as planned. The rest of the year? Still to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Meals are officially sad in California&#8217;s Santa Clara County. After debating the issue, the board of supervisors in that Silicon Valley area has voted 3-2 to ban toys and other promotions from high-fat, sodium-loaded kids meals. The new ordinance won&#8217;t take effect for 90 days, giving fast-food restaurants a chance to bring their kids&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}