Cereal Killers? New Gov’t Guidlines May Soon Restrict Cereal Marketing to Kids
- Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:00am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Commercials promoting sugary breakfast cereals could be put on a strict diet under government guidelines urging food companies to limit marketing of unhealthy products to children.
Under guidelines obtained by The Associated Press, companies would be urged to only market foods to children ages 2 through 17 if they are low in fats, sugars and sodium and contain specified healthy ingredients. The government is planning to propose the voluntary guidelines Thursday, according to three people familiar with the process who were not authorized to speak publicly.
The guidelines set parameters that are stricter than many companies have set for themselves and, if the companies agree, would eliminate much of the advertising consumers see today – on television, in magazines, in stores and on the Internet – for foods that appeal to children.
If many companies sign on to the guidelines, children could see much less of the colorful cartoon characters used to advertise cereals or other gimmicks designed to draw their attention. Under the guidelines, if the companies wanted to continue that advertising, they would have to reduce unhealthy ingredients in their products.
The food industry already has been successful in reducing the number of television ads aimed at children in recent years and much of that advertising has moved to magazines, the Internet and social media. Public health advocates have argued that the industry’s self-regulation is not enough and has pushed the government to set guidelines.
In 2009, Congress directed the Federal Trade Commission, Agriculture Department, Food and Drug Administration and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop the recommendations. The guidelines they wrote are broad, applying to almost any promotion a child might see for a food – including text messages, product placement in video games and celebrity endorsements.
In a statement to be released Thursday, the agencies said the proposal, which would be phased in over five years and would be up for public comment until the summer, is “to encourage a marketing environment that supports, rather than undermines, parents’ efforts to get their children to eat more healthfully.”
Specifically, the agencies recommend that companies only market foods that have a significant amount of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk products, fish, extra lean meat, eggs, nuts, seeds or beans. Foods that have any trans-fat, more than 1 gram of saturated fat, 13 grams of added sugars or 210 milligrams of sodium in a serving would not be eligible for marketing to children under the guidelines.
The agencies suggest the industry focus its efforts on foods that are most heavily marketed to children, including breakfast cereals, carbonated beverages, restaurant foods and snack foods.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who authored the original bill asking for the guidelines, said Wednesday he is pleased with the agencies’ recommendations.
“Kids are being bombarded daily with ads for unhealthy foods and it is long past time that we limit the amount of junk food advertising,” he said.
It is unclear whether government pressure will be effective enough to get many companies to sign on. Some of the country’s largest food companies, including McDonalds, General Mills Inc., Kellogg Co., Kraft Foods Global and PepsiCo Inc., already have joined an initiative sponsored by the Better Business Bureau to limit their marketing to children. The standards are similar but not as strict.
Scott Faber, lobbyist for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, says many companies already have reformulated foods to reduce unhealthy ingredients.
“While the outside of the box hasn’t changed, what’s in the inside the box has changed dramatically,” he says.
The food industry’s efforts to change recipes and limit advertising have come as consumers are increasingly educated and aware of what they are eating. The president’s wife, Michelle Obama, also has been leading a campaign to fight childhood obesity.
Still, public health advocates say they believe a lot of work remains. Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, says advocates hope the guidelines will make a greater impact.
“As a mom watching television with my daughter or walking through the aisles of the supermarket, it seems like nothing has changed,” she says. “If companies applied these standards it would get rid of almost all junk food marketing to kids.”
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TRILO
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:14amThe Food Police at their best. Voluntary compliance? Soon it will be mandatory. Thanks Cas. In the near future the zombie Americans will not have to be responsible for anything in their life. Now those evil corporations are unknowingly forcing them to buy Captain Crunch! As far as food goes, I think we should be more concerned with the food additives, preservatives, antibiotics and GMO’s rather than sugar. Ah, but I bet Monsanto gives more to politicians than Quaker Oats. Wonder if Mike Huckabee is on board with this too?
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:14amHow come you created regulations that dont applied to you? Its legal and/or right, moral? I need your help because I am so stupid to understand your wisdom. All knowing and mighty government.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:12amTime to get rid of the criminals surrounding the” president. ” After susstein and holdren–we can start on the EPA acidheads and go from there.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:12amWonderful idea! This is already the practice in many Western European countries. I don’t think you can have commercials trgated at children under 13. It will make parents lives much easier not to have to deal with children begging for awful and unhealthy food. Children are bombarded with ads for silly plastic toys and horrible food constantly on TV in US.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:10amSomeone ought to tell these a**holes that there will be a lot of undernourished kids in this country. They won’t eat the slop that these adid freak liberals are proposing–or maybe starvation is the ideal outcome they’re trying to achieve.
Report Post »70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:59amI have the solution to childhood obesity. Take that carrot stick out of your kids mouth and give them a cigarette. Back in the 70s kids started smoking when they were in 5th or sixth grade. All that second hand smoke helps also. I was a Marlboro Menthol second hand smoker sense birth. Put those cigarette machines back in the laundry mats and watch those pounds drop off. All the sneaking around is great exercise too. Kids may climb up on the school roof for a smoke that’s just like climbing the robe in class. Kids will again look like the string beans we were back in the day. Don‘t leave out the smoke filled bathroom either that’s a double bonus right there. Instead of sneaking a sugary snack they get the appetite killing smoke smelling cloths. Bringing that smokey flavor into the classroom were it belongs. Guys can get that deep radio voice that drives the chicks crazy. Oh Yea! That’s what Im talking about. The gals alluring those guys putting sexy back into that smoke. Guys learning to express their emotions with a cigarette. No more therapy just more smoke. The pissed off cigarette throw to the ground. The playful smoke rings and thousands of hand gestures with that three inch stick of joy. So put back cigarette advertising for kids and we wont have to worry about the other advertising because kids will be thin and cool once again. That’s a win-win for everybody.
Report Post »Zeus In A Speedo
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:29amWell said 70′s Kids!!! Ah, yes, I remember the smokey 70‘s and 80’s vividly. I used to hit a tennis ball in my granny’s garage while she smoked 3 cigarettes watching me. From that second hand smoke (and practice) I made it to fisrt team varsity on my high school tennis team.
Libs act like our environment is so bad now; it is actually 200% cleaner that it was back then. Also, there were so many more sugary cereals back in the 70′s for kids to choose from, like:
Count Chocula (my favorite), Frankenberry, Boo-Berry, Quisp, Coco Crispies, Cap’n Crunch, Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch, Super Sugar Crisp, Honey smaks, Honey Combs, Sugar Smaks, Lucky Charms, Cookie Crisp (both chocolate chip and sugar cookie), , Fruit Loops, etc.
Stop with the nanny State! If I choose for my kids to be kids, then let me!
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:52amB.S… YEAH… Cereal killz, haha… So where is the spike of people like myself who had all of this from the late 70′s going fwd dying in the streets? This is just like cell phones.. The first cell phones (analog) were 5 – 10 times more powerful than puny digital phones now. So shouldn‘t we see a huge spike in brain tumors in doctors and lawyers from the early 80’s? Cereal and everything else is the same, you can’t say it is bad for everyone because we have too many types of people over here. This is another example of runaway logic by whackos who should NOT have any power whatsoever.
Report Post »for-what-its-worth
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:39am“As a mom watching television with my daughter or walking through the aisles of the supermarket, it seems like nothing has changed,” she says. “If companies applied these standards it would get rid of almost all junk food marketing to kids.”
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I agree…nothing has changed. You’re one of the many parents with the whiney-a$$ kid, screaming in the cart until mommy finally gives in and buys the candy coated crap just to get her kid to shut up.
Here’s a thought…take some parenting classes and learn to tell your kid NO!
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:36amGreat. More government regulations on our food. Changes to packaging. Changes to recipes. All of which translates into higher prices on the store shelves. Obama Administration mentality: Gas prices too high? Buy a hybrid or electric car. Food prices to high? Eat a leaf or twig.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:35amMessage to General mills stock holders …I am available to come run your company. ..Evidently your company is in dire need of some new leadership . You have the federal government and the food police crapping all over your company. Yet people that you the stockholder pay millions of dollars to a year to run the company hide and say nothing as you get another dose of communism and PC crap slapped in your face …So any company that doesn’t have the balls to stand up to this crap can hire me I will do the job for you. .
Report Post »Apodictic
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:06amI‘d love to have a look at General Mills’ campaign contributions. There’s probably an inverse relationship with the current regime. I’d bet on it.
Report Post »ryguy1985
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:31amDear Big Gov.,
It’s amazing how America ever got this far without Big gov. Thank you so much for making us a country of pansies! Without you instead of 80% of america being overweight it would be more like 80.01%. Without you a lot of children would have died from things like playing tag, or swinging on swings, or even wacking piniatas. Without you parents would have made all the wrong choices in raising their own kids! We love you big government, more and more with every over the top regulation!
Love, Diaper Baby
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:24amWhen I was kid, the only good part about going to the store with my mom was picking the best toy in the cereal box. Guess what, I didn’t get fat, played college sports and am still in pretty good shape at 50. Get your fat @ss kids off the couch and away from the video games and leave Count Chockula alone!!
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:23amImpeach Obama now.
Report Post »Induct all his czars, appointees and advisers
This administration is illegal.
Obama is not a natural born citizen.
All laws he signed and executive orders are void.
SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:33amYou’re a nut..
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:43amYou mean he is really an space alien pod person? This argument is not only stupid but it is also a distraction from the real things going on that he should be held accountable for. Every “birther” who keeps beating this dead horse is actually doing Mr. Obama a big favor. You are being played for a fool.
Report Post »Youngin
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:20amSugary breakfast cereals have been a part of my diet since I can remember. My doctor tells me I’m “very healthy.” I’m 22 and I still enjoy all the classic mascots.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:17amCould it be that this government is trying to see how far they can push us? Time to go th Cass Sunsteens house and drop off a box of Fruit Loops.
Report Post »WVBeagleMom
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:13amJust get out of my kitchen you progressive jerks.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:12amIm soooo sick of this nanny state
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:32amNew Zealand would be a nice place..
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 9:23amNew Zealand has its own version of nanny statism. It, like the rest of the Anglosphere, is hell bent on destroying our entire anglo-saxon traditions of common law and liberty
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:11amCarbs and refined and concentrated sugars in almost EVERYTHING that is processed is what is killing or at least causing obestity and diabetes in our generation to the degree it is present. Carbs turn to sugar, concentrated and refined sugars add up. Search on “Dr. Richard Bernstein diabetes” for more information. Type I diabetic since age 14, Dr. Bernstein is now 75, still practicing with primarily diabetics and weight loss through correct, healthy diet–protein, fat and veggies–which lower insulin need, cholesterol, blood pressure, weight. Dr. Bernstein was an engineer when in the 60′s he tracked foods with a new blood sugar meter and learned what specific foods do to blood sugar. He then went back to Albert Einstein and became an MD and a PhD in nutrition. Check it out.
I’m not at all related with this practice or websights, I’m just a successful diabetic controlling my sugars at just about normal (87) through diet and exercise.
Report Post »Soldier_FORTHERECORD
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:15amCongratulations on your successful management of your condition. I’m glad someone has some level of personal responsibility instead of relying on the government to solve all their problems for them.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:39amI am not arguing whether or not this food is good for you. I am arguing as to whether the government should get involved in it. Personal responsibility and personal choice.
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:21amI am 42 yes old, I cannot remember the last time I ate one of this cereals. No because big nanny told me, because is the right thing to do. Choices and consequences. Remember, because the government is going to pay for your health care they will dictated you what to eat. Freedom, right?
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:43pmI agree the article was about our growing “nanny state,” and I don’t agree with that either.
However, if we knew the truth about things, and some wisdom during shopping (since money is so tight), people could eat the right foods in the first place, save money, be healthy and there would be no need for a nanny state!
Read the sugar article from the NYT’s Sunday Magazine about two/three weeks ago. Truth! Learn about how eating carbs when diabetic makes the body need more insulin either through the help of pharaceuticals or injected insulin. Why does the American Diabetes Association suggest a diet high in breads and cereals to a public that needs to control sugar and amount of insulin. High insulin usage (or need), causes high cholesterol. High sugar is funneled to the liver which then packs on the pounds for storage! Protein (animal, dairy, fish), healthy fats (those containing ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS), and those vegetables not high in sugar (NOT corn, peas, beans, beets), not only feed muscle, skin, hair and teeth, but satiate better than a diet high in carbs! A diet low in sugars and insulin use lowers cholesterol (unless there is a genetic predisposition), and allows loss of fat WITHOUT actual “dieting” but rather, normal eating.
Get rid of the nanny by being personally responsible. Put the “nanny state” out of a job!
Report Post »MrDeadly
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:11amMy girlfriend is being taught this crap in her college philosophy class. They are trying to teach her about all the evils of marketing to children and how its so hard for parents to say no to buying tons of candy and cereal. Maybe if parents these days taught discipline, were consistent, and had a backbone then the government wouldn’t need to step in and “help parents and children,” Ridiculous.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:13amWhy bother ? it’s just easier to let them take care of it.. this way here we can just go to the store and buy it without worrying. right ? It’s all done for us.. I like that Idea..
Report Post »MrDeadly
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:24amTrue, I‘m hoping that next the gove’ment can just tell us what job to get, what house we are going to live in, what to do with our money, when we are allowed outside (curfews), and how many children we can have! (sarcasm)
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:55amActually, the parents don’t have to “teach” anything. Parents can instead say “no” to the little wunderkind at their ankles. Imagine that, saying “no” to a kid’s request. That must be a horror of a thought for the Left, who hates to be told that they cannot be granted immediate gratification on demand. No wonder they don‘t want children raised with ’no’ being part of the household vocabulary.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 9:02amThere is no need for government to step in, regardless of “what needs to be done”. If we want to be a fat and happy society, who is it to others to tell us otherwise? We’re free men, we’re not serfs bound to the requirements of a king. Freedom means you get to make your own decisions, good or bad, and accept the results, good or bad.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 6:03pmIs the governmnet going to help parents discipline their children? That’s great. But isn’t this the same government that wants to jail parents for spanking their kids. That’s not so great.
So the government has to take away our freedom because we can no longer guard our kids‘ diets with all these temptations because the government won’t let us really lay the law down with our kids.
I got it now. The governmnet has to govern us because we can’t govern ourselves, because the government won’t LET US govern ourselves.
Pretty damn clever of them. I think it’s time we got rid of them.
Report Post »anutter
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:09amKids don’t buy cereal parents do.
Report Post »CHRISTIANNATION
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:45amAmen! When are parents going to start raising their own children?
Report Post »JJCon
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:15pmMy wife and I finally had to take away our 3-year-old son’s credit cards. Now we get decide what gets purchased.
Report Post »Dr of T
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:08amgreedy corporate profit making food corporations, that will show them. ha. this is what democracy looks like.
Report Post »Soldier_FORTHERECORD
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:08amWoot! Keep ‘em coming Cass! Another one for regulations nudging us into your vision of a ‘perfect’ society.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:07amOutlawing the Captain & Sea Dog? Outlawing Tony the Tiger? Outlawing Toucan Sam? What will Snap, Crackle & Pop do? I‘m glad I’m not that far away from dying. My world is almost all gone.
Report Post »smak
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:16amNobody is outlawing anything.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:34amThis is just the first step. Give them the chance and it will be. Cigarettes started the same way. Now there are places that you can’t smoke anywhere in public even in parks or on streets. Certain kind of fats used in cooking are outlawed in several large cities and now the State of Illinois has a pending bill outlawing them. They all started out this way and then the government decided that people are should not be given the choice. They all started with the government giving warnings, then extra taxes, then finally they are banned. The government taking care of you.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:53am@Ted
I’m only 43. I grew up in our world (your world) most of my life. I still have a long way to go, and way too much energy to sit idle and still about it. I do kind of envy the very old in a way, imagine getting to live a life mostly in something resembling liberty. We won‘t know peace here much longer I’m afraid, and my children will probably come to know the same hunger and poverty that most of the world lives in if things keep going as they are, and assuming that we can’t stop this crap now, today.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:06amThis is great !!.. (excuse the pun).. No but really, it’s a good thing ,those cereals are nothing BUT, sugar.. Someone has to regulate it… Parents can’t be bothered with the little things since they are out trying to make a living… Those dems , I’m starting to see where they are coming from..
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:13amWhat is going to be next? Meat, juice, salad, etc… Nudging? What about the amount the alcohol per beer or rum? What about the red meat per oz per body mass? For them too much is no good! They (progressive) are testing the waters and they want to know how are we going to react. These progressive are useless.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:21amCereals are not all sugar!! Just look at the alternatives – Anything in the “potato chip” aisle, pre-made frozen sandwiches, corn dogs, etc. You can’t expect a kid to eat carrots and celery sticks at every snack time. Do you?? When my kids were growing up we kept plenty of cereal in the house. So after school they (all 4) usually all had a bowl of cereal and/or snacked on cereal. Compare calorie and fat amounts with any of the other snacks. Also when we grocery shopped they were allowed to pick any cereals they wanted. It was their reason for going! The only caveat being they had to eat it. Many were not picked twice. Oh yeah, none of my kids (now in their 20s) has ever been over weight.
Report Post »nuttyvet
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:06amThank you big government! What would we do without you protecting us? I got an email from a local Democtratic Congressman who explained all these programs that he didn’t want cut from the budget and then went on to explain how much money he brings into NC by way of entitlements. It was like saying “Vote for me and look at all the money I can generate with out you working.” So pathetic.
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:13amOMG… be a parent! Isn’t is easier for them to read a parenting book instead of having big brother regulate free speech?
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:20amThere goes that Cass Sundstein with more regulations again! That guy can’t ever get his fill of new regulations! Pretty soon, EVERYBODY will have to wear an air monitor, so the government will be able to tax you EXACTLY for the amount of air you breathe!!! WAKE UP, AMERICANS, THIS IS YOUR FREEDOM THE PROGRESSIVES ARE TOYING WITH!!!
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:26amGee…I guess our country isn’t broke!
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:34amThe attack of the Nanny state continues!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:37amThis is just one more of the many fine examples of big brother seeking to control our every aspect of living in the nation. I hope the cereal companies do not tolerate this and have the guts to take the fed’s on – head on, and sue the daylights out of them for discrimination and interferance in their rights to lawfully conduct business.
It is well past time for more people to make the stand. We are beating them slowly, for their own sets of thugary will defeat them in the end. America is not about violence and KGB style tactics, those of us here will not tolerate it.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:45amMaybe the government should look at doing something more useful, like putting Obama on a propaganda diet. Make him limit his lies to only one per day.
Report Post »verityquest
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:47amPARENTS – WAKE UP!
What a bunch of crap….THOUGHT POLICE ALERT.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:52amThis one is not so easy for me. I have seen sugar addiction and too much junk food ruin children’s lives. The junk food industry has been nudging us to accept these foods as the social norm for years. I’m not saying get rid of the “foods” in question. Just saying, if we protect advertising which intends to nudge our children into wanting to consume foods definitely linked with many diseases, why not lift the bans on tobacco and alcohol advertising? It’s all crap, and it all kills eventually if abused.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:56amFrom the article:
Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, says advocates hope the guidelines will make a greater impact.
“As a mom watching television with my daughter or walking through the aisles of the supermarket, it seems like nothing has changed,” she says. “If companies applied these standards it would get rid of almost all junk food marketing to kids.”
Or, you could just go to a grocery store or watch a television channel that shares your values and doesn‘t carry products you’d rather not be confronted with, I’m sure there is a Whole Foods-type grocery store in your area, and I’ll bet you could learn to like watching PBS instead of commercial TV…
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:01amOh, PBS! What’s not to like?
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:16amI am so happy the GOVERNMENT seems to think LIMITING the amount of advertising for what THEY consider unhealthy foods.. it will make shopping so much easier.. the kids WON‘T be asking for ANY products the government doesn’t think they shouldn’t have..lol.. after all FOOD (and that is only some) is the ONLY thing we MAKE in the U.S.A… so cutting off money from advertising will HELP the economy.. and CREATE more JOBS.. right??? I am thinking the my whole time spent as a DEMOCRAT here‘s another place I didn’t fit in.. I was the PARENT.. I could say NO to my kids.. to be honest I usually said NO first.. (kids always ask to do something OR for something when your busy).. than after I thought about it I MIGHT say yes.. my thought was it’s always easier to take back a NO than a YES..after I have considered all the pro‘s and con’s of something.. Needless to say my kids were sometimes pleasantly surprised by my reversal..why these PROGRESSIVE women can’t JUST SAY NO instead of having to have a fall guy.. the GOVERNMENT..cause they are WIMPS..
While on the other hand the government help their buddies in the HEALTH CARE industry SELL their products.. I for one would LOVE to see MORE product advertisement for FOOD.. I am SICK of seeing DRUG advertisements.. DISEASE advertisement to SELL you a DRUG .. LAWSUITS for diseases caused by DRUGS that were OK’D by the FDA..I have the best HOSPITAL for your DISEASE advertisement.. running 24/7 on all BUT the kids stations.. It’s depressing..NOT to mention that after they try tell you there a pill for that .. they list the side effects that can CAUSE several diseases you DON’T have..including CANCER.. which will lead to them selling MORE drugs to cure the side effects the CURE gave you..
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:27amOh… So now Big Government is dictating to private companies how they can and cannot advertize their products…
I used to love Cap’n Crunch, Lucky Charms, Sugar Crisp (before it became PC “Honey Crisp”) and Crispy Critters! Still do, but whatever happened to Crispy Critters?
Whatever happened to our freedoms?
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:44amStupid crap like this hasn’t stopped people from smoking, or drinking…
They have an abysmal record.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:46amFigures doesn’t it? They just don’t get it.
Leave.
Us.
Alone.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
We had a discussion last night in my house about progressives, where I directed my children at the nanny state tendencies they display. This was brought about by them telling me that the Cookie Monster now consumes vegetables regularly and calls cookies only a “sometime food”. I mean, what?
So we talked about social conditioning, and how progressives (whom I labeled as socialists, communists, national socialists and the American Left) have a very strong and compelling urge to control how other people act and think, and how they use children to instill their ideas. I warned them about people like Al Gore who walk around telling them that they are smarter than their parents if they just, gosh durn, believe in global warming. I instructed them how the Russians used to tell the parents of children after the revolution “pretend you agree with communism, so your children will learn by example”. I spoke of the Communist Chinese sending out children to kill their parents in order to spread the communist ideology free from the family influence. The whole nine yards.
This new campaign in the article, if it comes to fruition, is a perfect example for us to talk about tonight.
These oh so mediocre minds think that they’re being so incredibly caring and haughty from their ivory towers, but I suspect that they’re spawning a lot of in home teaching such as went on in my home last night.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:50am@GETLIFE
“This one is not so easy for me. I have seen sugar addiction”
There is no such thing as sugar addiction. There is only lack of self control and impulse restraint, which is fully under the control of the person eating sugar. We need to stop labeling intentional lack of control as “addiction” in my opinion.
“and too much junk food ruin children’s lives. ”
Junk food doesn’t jump into the mouths of babes all on its own. Just like a gun, food is an inanimate object (unless you’re a hunter like me, but I tend to stop the animation pretty severely before I cook it up).
“The junk food industry has been nudging us to accept ”
You have a mind and freewill. You are under no obligation to be “nudged” or forced to believe anything.
“Just saying, if we protect advertising which intends to nudge our children into wanting to consume foods definitely linked with many diseases, why not lift the bans on tobacco and alcohol advertising? It’s all crap, and it all kills eventually if abused.”
We should lift bans on alcohol and tobacco advertising. This is supposed to be a free nation, inhabited by adults, who are capable of directing their own lives without others “protecting” them from being “nudged” by words and images.
Report Post »beenaroundyaknow
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:06amProgressives are not toying with our freedoms…it is an all out assault. Nudge by nudge and the general public just sits there and worries about American Idol and Jersey Shore.
Report Post »Issachar
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:58amThe real killers are in Washington DC, and statehouses across the nation – they are called Progressives, or Communists for the uninformed. There are some good people too, but they are outnumbered and WEAK.
Report Post »ReddenBlack
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:37amOh NO!!! How can we live in a world with LESS advertising!!! I see so few commercials and ads today, I’m starting to forget what they look like! Lord PLEASE let me keep my cereal commercials!!
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 12:01pmIt wouldn’t be a thread unless I posted in it lol.
Report Post »The only reason I ate cereal as a child is because my parents bought it. Who are they marketing to again?
Jayldd
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:22pmAs Glenn says, we need to be an example to other people in our community to stand apart. We don NOT need the government telling us how to care for our children but we do NEED to set a proper example. We should all stand up and stop feeding our children the junk food, candy, fried foods, and soda not because of advertising but because it is the right example to set for our children. The Lord has given us an abundance of natural healthy food and eating it as he created it in moderation is all that is required. For me its as simple as following the Word of Wisdom in my home. Let’s stand apart!
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:18pmProf. Alexander Frazer Tytler has written, that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship. Unfortunately, we can’t argue with the professor because when he wrote that we were still colonials of Great Britain and he was explaining what had destroyed the Athenian Republic more than 2000 years before.
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