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Advocate Group Urges Ban on Junk Food Marketing to Children

2/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Consumers International Congress (CI) was held in Sydney at the end of October with the theme 'holding corporations to account'. Two areas of the Congress that attracted media attention were 'Obesity and Food Marketing', and 'The Ethics...

Children's Report Cards: McDonald's New Marketing Platform

1/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) McDonald’s paid the $1,700 tab for Seminole County, Florida’s report card jackets in exchange for a coupon, featuring Ronald McDonald, on the card’s cover (1, 2). With good grades and attendance, the coupon can be redeemed for a free Happy...

Corporations are bombarding children with ads that boost obesity, poor nutrition

12/8/2006 - (NaturalNews) The age groups that include young children to adolescents witness so many advertisements, medical experts now fear for their health. Reports show that 40,000 ads each year from television alone may be boosting obesity, poor nutrition, cigarette...

FTC demands junk food companies disclose money spent marketing to children

10/25/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it may soon require food and beverage manufacturers to release detailed information on their expenditures for marketing to children and adolescents. Before the demand can be made of firms,...

Disney announces effort to improve health of Disney-branded junk foods marketed to children

10/18/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Walt Disney Company says it will begin introducing healthier food items into its theme parks in response to concerned parents who want good nutrition for their kids while visiting them. In addition, Disney will be putting strict limits...

Junk food, cereal and snacks increasingly marketed to children through "pester power"

6/26/2006 - Before the 1980s, with the exception of Disney and McDonald's masterminds Walt Disney and Ray Kroc, companies felt little incentive to market their products to children because they felt children had no buying power. This perspective made sense at the...

Health Ranger hails CPSI effort to stop Kellogg Co. from marketing junk food to children

1/19/2006 - The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) recently announced its intention to pressure Kellogg Co. to halt its practice of advertising junk foods to children. Spearheaded by CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson, the effort promises...

Commercial Alert vs. USDA: How one non-profit is fighting to eliminate junk food from America's schools

12/6/2005 - Parents have expectations of what will happen once they drop their child off at school. The two most basic expectations are that their child will learn and that they will be safe while at school, but the once-insular school environment has changed. Advertisers...

Interview with Jennifer Mattox, founder of Faerie Films and director of school nutrition documentary "Vending Machine"

7/18/2005 - Jessica: I'm talking with Jennifer Mattox, founder of Faerie Films and director of the upcoming documentary, "Vending Machine." Can you tell me a little bit about Faerie Films and why you launched the company? Mattox: Faerie Films was created because...

Advertising trains people to behave like lab rats

7/18/2005 - Do you ever read about experiments in which lab rats are used to test a psychological premise? Researchers set up a food dispensing system in which the lab rat presses a lever to get a little piece of food. You can train a lab rat to do all sorts of...

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