How bad an idea is this? Notorious nanny Gavin Newsom, mayor of nanny state central, thinks the idea is stupid.We’ve entered the Twighlight Zone of nanny statism, my friends.

Like Allah, I’m confused as to the point: It’s not like little kids walk into McDonalds and buy themselves a Happy Meal. They’re always with parents or some other adult — an adult or parent capable of using discretion to determine what the child in their care should consume.

So are we now saying that we don’t trust parents and guardians to make decisions as to what their children should eat? Are we saying that technocrats know our children and their nutritional needs than we are? Evidently, and that’s one creepy ass line we’ve crossed.

The proposal, which will have its first public hearing Monday, wouldn’t ban the popular toy giveaways outright but would make it illegal for kids’ meals to come with prizes if the food exceeds city-set limits on calories, fat, salt and sugar…

Wells said her company [McDonald's] – driven in large part by consumer demand – already voluntarily provides healthier choices for its customers, noting that kids can get apples with their Happy Meals instead of french fries, and milk instead of soda…

The toys offered with kids meals at fast-food restaurants are powerful lures for children, Mar said. Individual McDonald’s restaurants sell an average of more than 1,000 Happy Meals a week.

“As a parent, it’s not just parental choice that decides what meals to serve your children,” he said. “There’s the heavy marketing by an industry that connects food with a toy, and that can be a powerful influence. It’s the responsibility of the industry to promote healthy choices.”

So the solution is to eliminate parental choice? In San Francisco, that’s apparently the case.

The best part, of course, is that this is San Francisco. Men can walk around with their gnads hanging out, spanking their partner while wearing leather chaps, and smoking pot. That’s just fine and dandy. But kids getting toys with the Happy Meal their parents decided to buy them? Whoa nelly! That’s just unhealthy for our children.