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Fred Sold Out

evilcyber — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:33:56 +0000

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. Little EC Zapping Through TV It happens from time to time that I idly sit on my couch and zap through the available TV channels. Sooner or later […]

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Junk Food And Free Speech

evilcyber — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:35:00 +0000

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. FDA + USDA + FTC + CDC = IWG That the Federal Drug Administration, U.S. Department of […]

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Governmental Schizophrenia

evilcyber — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:07:05 +0000

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. Subsidies For Fast Food? Already six years ago an article in Environmental Health Perspectives […]

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