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EU threatens to ban junk food ads if industry does not cooperate — The refers to banning junk food ads aimed at children. Goodbye Ronald!!
About one quarter of children in the European Union are now obese, and the problem is growing so fast that health authorities are expressing alarm. Markos Kyprianou said that obesity and overweight among children is no longer just an American problem – Europe has caught up fast.
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Kudos to the EU for fighting back. Kids are the last frontier for corporations to exploit. Fast food companies lure these kids in by using a clown/cartoon mascot with promises of toys, treats and fun at the McDonald’s playground. Sounds like the Michael Jackson approach to selling hamburgers. If we let corporations get away with murder, they will up the ante to genocide.
Oh to be so lucky to live in a world where obesity is a serious problem. In a world where someone who is thin isn’t considered thin but suffering from a mental disorder (anorexia). What crap. If the parents can’t say no to their kids, blame the parents not the sellers.
Nice to know Europe is now in victim mode now. I thought childhood obesity stemmed from lack of *good* physical education programs in school and general lack of excersize. Sorry, been there and done that; McDonald’s has less to do with it than the general “convenience society”.
Why is it all the fault of fast food places?
I don’t really know many 5-10 year olds who go to these places without their parents. So it seem to me that all the advertising aimed at children would not be the source of the problem.
While I admit that fast food is not the best thing to be eating, I think it is just part of a problemthat began with recent shifts in lifestyle.
When I was a kid we would go out and play baseball/football/soccer in a vacant lot or as part of little league activities. We had active childhoods.
Now kids sit and play video/ computer games or watch TV. Maybe EU should threaten Nintendo and Sony for advertising to kids.
Maybe the BBC should be threaten for having childrens programming available on TV.
Some of that junk food is worse than heroin. What we need is an all-out war on junk food!
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