Unhappy meals

I find San Francisco's ban on McDonalds for offering toys in their happy meals bizarre. The thinking goes that children shouldn't be rewarded for eating unhealthy food by giving them a toy. So if we remove the toys we will remove the desire to eat the burgers and fries. Are you kidding me? Do they honestly think that the kids will turn around and say mom let's have a salad with grilled lean chicken and bottled water? Social engineering by our government has, and always be, an unmitigated failure. Remember the war on poverty? how about the war on drugs? Those programs did zero, zilch, nada in improving the lives of it's citizens. The ban misses an important point in this controversy. It is not the children who are paying for the meals, it is the parents. If a parent has not already raised their child to make the right decisions when it comes to eating healthy foods, then the government has already lost the war on childhood obesity. This is not a war the government can win, or should even participate in.