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..."Still, some may accuse the group of extremism, arguing that it's the parents' responsibility to monitor what their children eat, not the restaurant's.
Michael Jacobson, executive director of CSPI, says it's the parents responsibility too, but he equates the toy giveaways to a door to door salesman coming to a family's house every day and asking to privately speak with the children.
"At some point parents get worn down," Jacobson says. "They don't always want to be saying no to their children. We feel like an awful lot of parents would be relieved if this one pressure was removed from them."...
My parents must have been superhuman then because my brothers and I could beg and plead all we want. (Which we really didn't because we learned at a very early age it got us nowhere.) The answer was NO! I'm not saying we never went, but it sure wasn't because of some promotional toy. We couldn't even get sugared cereals that were over 8 grams of sugar while school was in session. You think the cool toys were in Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies? Uh no, they were not. Looking back on it, I was a very healthy child and really don't think I missed out. How many people still have those little toys and stickers and whatnot that were in the meals and boxes anyway?
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