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Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

McDonald's chief executive Jim Skinner has stood by the fast-food chain's trademark clown Ronald McDonald.

On Wednesday, a group of 550 healthcare workers wrote to McDonald's asking it to stop marketing to children using methods such as toys and the clown.

"Ronald McDonald is going nowhere," Mr Skinner told Thursday's shareholders' meeting.

Shareholders rejected a proposal for the company to issue a report outlining its role in childhood obesity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13466417

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

I don't know about you but I always considered Ronald to be a little on the creepy side.

NovaKart · Joined: 18 Nov 2009 Location: Iraq

I always thought he looked really creepy too but I think they're removing him for the wrong reasons. They're making him seem like some drug pusher. There's nothing wrong with kids eating at McDonalds every once in awhile and they should be free to advertise how they want.

Now that they've done everything but ban smoking these people would be out of a job if they didn't have something to target so they're raising hysteria about fast food and trying to ban everything. Are you going to have to present ID to buy a pack of donuts in the future?

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

It would be more realistic if Ronald had blotchy skin and weighed 350 pounds.

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

It's hardly the marketing-to-the-kids' fault when in the end it's the parents' decision to let their children eat it.

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Swampfox10mm · Joined: 24 Mar 2011

Ronald is not creepy.

Geesh, sometimes I think some peoples parents didn't hold them enough and they see pervert every corner in life they look.

isisaredead · Joined: 18 May 2010

yet again we're giving parents free reign to blame everyone and everything else but themselves for their kid's issues.

don't want your kid to be fat? don't eat maccas. kid pressuring you to eat at maccas because he wants a toy? slap him in the face and force-feed him celery.

you'll thank me in ten years.

geldedgoat · Joined: 05 Mar 2009

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I think some people are being more than a little disingenious here. You all know that your folks had about 0 control over what you ate when you were more than about 10 feet from them.

Parents are only asking for a little help in getting their kid to eat a healthy diet. Is that so awful? You may object to MTV turning your 11 year old daughter into looking like a sex pot, too, but hey, it's just business. It's 'our' responsibility to make money; it's your responsibility to control your kid.

The problem is that McDonald's is not in business to help your kid eat a healthy diet. It's in business to make money, and manipulation is part of the marketing strategy. The fact that people keel over at 32 from eating too many Big Macs is not their problem. (The magic hand of the market will take care of that in a few thousand years.)

And Kuros is right, the most pathetic New Year's Eve I ever spent in my life was eating a Cajun Chicken Sandwich at Popeyes in Tainan, Taiwan, all alone, in the rain. Thank god for small favors. Crying or Very sad