I think the new San Francisco law banning Happy Meals is brilliant

[EFerrari]

because it disrupts the corporate PR mainline to our kids' brains. And that's much more important than whatever can be done to make a Happy Meal resemble food.

How many of us learned our first brand by watching a commercial that showed a "prize" in a box of sugar? Kids learn so fast. It's so easy to train them to buy what you have to sell. By the time they are 18, it's a little late to teach them to think independently when the multinationals have been at them ever since they were old enough to sit up and watch teevee.

Anything that disrupts the training of children to become reflexive consumers of cr@p is a good thing, imo. One less body for Fox, one more potential liberal with working frontal lobes to make choices at the ballot box.