Fred Sold Out
Using trusted cartoon characters to sell food products to children can be a particularly devious form of marketing that may influence adult eating habits and obesity rates.
Tag: government
Junk Food And Free Speech
In April this year, something remarkable happened: Several large governmental agencies got together and proposed a set of voluntary marketing guidelines food manufacturers should follow to curb childhood obesity. They say it threatens their right of free speech.
Governmental Schizophrenia
It is rather strange how on the one hand most governments want their people to be healthy and spend a lot of money on encouraging it, and simultaneously subsidize foods that may play a rather big role in rising obesity rates.
