Marketing Junk Food to Kids - Marion Nestle

Americans always hide behind the constitution despite its ineptness in this context. Not only are kids not necessarily in control of their actions, but their disposable incomes are high and often out of direct control of parents. In other words, the only possible source of intervention is political. But so long as americans see any intervention as "socialism" and are in love with human-hating corporations like mcdonalds then they will never learn.

IS FOOD OUR NEXT TABBACCO ????
Do you need alcohol to live ????
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umm, I understand you're stance and where your coming from. you make a good point too. I also believe that there should be some regulation, but not too much regulation ..because we all know where that leads us, lol. most of the responsibilities must lay on the parents shoulders and not the government's. its not our government's job to be raising our children. honestly speaking, they regard us as mere human resources anyway.

I'm just tired of people bringing out the Constitution whenever people talk about government regulation.

The situation is, putting the unfair advertising strategy of junk food companies under check is a sound strategy to deal with the problem. We should discuss its consequences, its fairness, its feasibility, etc.

The sole purpose of my sarcasm was to raise attention to his blind ideological objection. If you failed to get that and saw my argument as offensive, I apologize.

..once again. I was saying that the matters of food regulation and alcohol control are two separate issues. if you cant understand that then....wow. 'truthadvocate' made a respectable point. then you had to follow up with you're nonsenical sarcastic comment. and I just felt the need to point that out to you. try communicating to others without the sarcastic undertone, if not used properly you'll just come of as rood.

smashamus: I certainly hope the government would take action if Drano tries to convince people how delicious it is. Or is it too unconstitutional for you?

alcohol isn't classified as a food..so you're sarcasm against 'truthadvocate' wasn't so funny. the topic of healthy or unhealthy foods is totally different from alcoholic substance control. Drano can also be ingested but its not food.

How many people really eat food that is healthy?I would say 1 in 10,000 in the us and much less in 3drds because of availability.Hardly anything in a regular grocery store is food.Its corporate "food".You have to shop at health food stores,you can never eat fast food or gmo's,or meat or dairy.Well meat if you raise "it",treat "it" like a pet,and slaughter "it",thats ok then.
I really only think 1/10,000 really does think fora.

Marion _NESTLE_?

Am I the only one who finds it funny that this woman shares a name with a leading chocolate manufacturer?

And we see socialism as a threat!

the more you restrict corporations in advertising to children, the more you are empowering parents. to say otherwise is buying into the poppycock corporations are throwing out there. 1 happy meal is not unhealthy, but when advertisers say this will be the only thing that will make you happy then there is something wrong. i agree that parents should be THE healthy role model in their child's life, and the assumption the TV will teach kids what's always right is stupid.what parent wants a fat kid?

I want Cheez-its now.

i say we lift age restriction on alcohol, and let parents use their authority to tell their kids to stay away from it.

Agreed, although you still have to deal with things like what kinds of foods public schools sell. I also feel that if we instate universal healthcare, there will need to be some sort of sin tax to make junk food...taste less sweet.

Anyone who thinks the government should be involved in deciding what our kids eat needs to review the enumerated powers in the Constitution. A children's diet is the responsibility of their parents. If parents want their children to be fit, then the parents themselves need to serve as a healthy role model. Then if businesses do anything that blatantly undermines a parents authority, the parents should boycott those businesses and turn off the TV so the kids get more exercise anyway.