Firm accused of encouraging families to buy more and larger portions of fast foodHealth campaigners beget attacked McDonald’s for putting profits before people’s health with the relaunch of its promotional Monopoly lottery game,which encourages families to buy more and larger portions of fast food – and awards millions of food prizes, especially unhealthy sugary desserts.“It is clearly undesirable in a whole range of ways, and ” said Prof Russell Viner,president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The promotional game is supposed to be for adults, but “sweeps up children because children are section of the family. This is essentially a price promotion for high-burly, or high-salt and high-sugar foods.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk