If removing ads for rotten rubbish like Cheesestrings doesn't have any effect, it would suggest that the ads weren't working in the first place, and the advertisers were wasting their money.
People are going to eat fast food regardless of whether it's advertised on TV or not.
So why do they spend lots of money advertising it on TV then? Seems a bit pointless.
Of course, this isn't the solution, but it is part of it.
There are corporations urging children to eat rubbish!
Would you let a stranger in your house, trying to persuade your children into doing unhealthy stuff? Wouldn't u want to kick them out? Why let Ronald McDonald have unquestioned time with your children?
Children can't make an informed choice! It is the parents who should make the choice. Advertising stuff like this to children is entirely wrong.
Me thinks you have the film Supersize Me etched into your mind a little too much!
As I have said before & I'll say again in an ideal world we wouldn't have junk food but we do.
Of course the advertisers can be agressive but the blame lays firmly with people themselves. Coco Pops, Mc Donalds, Coca Cola, Etc. have been advertising on tv for a good 30-40 years with some brands advertising on UK television since ITV started in 1955 and ther was no Obesity epidemic at all
Fast forward on 50 years & suddenly everyone is a fat b*stard & it's all the companies faults not their own. I can't count the number of times I have seen kids outside a Dixy Chicken or another fast food chain eating fried chicken, etc with no parents around. They all seem to be eating this stuff at 6pm, do parents not cook for their kids anymore.
Also since TFL allowed all under 18's to travel for free on the buses, tube etc. more & more kids are using them, meaning a lack of exercise as none of them walk to school anymore.
There's also the celebrity issue, most kids won't even remember Gary Linker playing football but because he's a celeb another great advertising campaign goes down the drain (I'm not pro junk food but I'm afraid of what's going to replace them - Insurance, claim & the like)
The same is happening with drinking, yet again 50 odd years of advertising on tv & it seems only in the last 5 years has binge drinking has occured.
The simple solution (as someone posted above) is brinkg down the price of healthy food & drink and put up the price of junk food & alcohol.
Also the government needs to tell people to take responibility of their own action, I know that won't be a popular statement but at least it would be the truth (for once)
Firstly, I guess banning it upto 16 makes more sense than upto aged 9 as really it is the teens that would be most affected. Younger children have to rely on their parents and "pester power", but those in their teens would have more independence to go out and get themselves a burger!
Secondly, smoking.
In theory I don't think anyone (apart from F1) really objects to the ban on smoking ads in the press - but I was thinking yesterday that now there are no ads for fags, there is also no regular printing of messages like "Smoking Kills" which had to be included in the adverts.
Certainly for me when I saw the ads the messages like that stuck out more than the brand!
And talking of that, I'm guessing that Junk Food ads will continue in the press.
As I have said before & I'll say again in an ideal world we wouldn't have junk food but we do.
Of course the advertisers can be agressive but the blame lays firmly with people themselves. Coco Pops, Mc Donalds, Coca Cola, Etc. have been advertising on tv for a good 30-40 years with some brands advertising on UK television since ITV started in 1955 and ther was no Obesity epidemic at all
Fast forward on 50 years & suddenly everyone is a fat b*stard & it's all the companies faults not their own. I can't count the number of times I have seen kids outside a Dixy Chicken or another fast food chain eating fried chicken, etc with no parents around. They all seem to be eating this stuff at 6pm, do parents not cook for their kids anymore.
Also since TFL allowed all under 18's to travel for free on the buses, tube etc. more & more kids are using them, meaning a lack of exercise as none of them walk to school anymore.
There's also the celebrity issue, most kids won't even remember Gary Linker playing football but because he's a celeb another great advertising campaign goes down the drain (I'm not pro junk food but I'm afraid of what's going to replace them - Insurance, claim & the like)
The same is happening with drinking, yet again 50 odd years of advertising on tv & it seems only in the last 5 years has binge drinking has occured.
The simple solution (as someone posted above) is brinkg down the price of healthy food & drink and put up the price of junk food & alcohol.
Also the government needs to tell people to take responibility of their own action, I know that won't be a popular statement but at least it would be the truth (for once)
One simple point to mention here but in The Netherlands healthy foods and fast foods are branded seperately and guess what healthy foods only has 6% VAT whilst fast foods, and alcohol, has 19% VAT! But to be honest it doesn't really have an effect children still eat fast food and numbers are rising on the number of adults consuming alcohol. No matter what anyone suggests or tries people, including both adults and children, will do what they want to do (within the law in many cases of course!!). So from my own point of view this advertising ban is completely useless and shows what a complete nanny state the UK is - Thank God I escaped when I did (even the Yanks, Cubans and North Koreans are not this bad! - the old USSR was never this bad!)
Firstly, I guess banning it upto 16 makes more sense than upto aged 9 as really it is the teens that would be most affected. Younger children have to rely on their parents and "pester power", but those in their teens would have more independence to go out and get themselves a burger!
Secondly, smoking.
In theory I don't think anyone (apart from F1) really objects to the ban on smoking ads in the press - but I was thinking yesterday that now there are no ads for fags, there is also no regular printing of messages like "Smoking Kills" which had to be included in the adverts.
Certainly for me when I saw the ads the messages like that stuck out more than the brand!
And talking of that, I'm guessing that Junk Food ads will continue in the press.
With regards to the UK....
One point to remember about children and smoking - it is NOT illegal for a child to smoke, hoever it is illegal for children to buy cigarrettes. Same with alcohol drinking children can drink but it is illegal to buy a child a drink
Firstly, I guess banning it upto 16 makes more sense than upto aged 9 as really it is the teens that would be most affected. Younger children have to rely on their parents and "pester power", but those in their teens would have more independence to go out and get themselves a burger!
Secondly, smoking.
In theory I don't think anyone (apart from F1) really objects to the ban on smoking ads in the press - but I was thinking yesterday that now there are no ads for fags, there is also no regular printing of messages like "Smoking Kills" which had to be included in the adverts.
Certainly for me when I saw the ads the messages like that stuck out more than the brand!
And talking of that, I'm guessing that Junk Food ads will continue in the press.
I have to say that banning the smoking ads was the right thing to do (although I do miss the billboard ads of Silk Cut & Marlboro)
The problem is the more you tell people not to do something the more likely they will do it
There is nothing nanny state about it. Anyway, arn't nannies for children?
Also, yes, also, if telling children not to eat junk food, makes them eat junk food, then the best thing is just to stop telling them. However, don't get me wrong. I used the word 'if', as a conditional-thingy, I'm using an extreme, yes, tell children that junk food is bad, but I think, on top, children shouldn't be told about the 'tasty food' and ' toy', after they've just been told at school not to eat it.
Yes, in the end, it is the parents' responsibilty, but I don't see why one would make it harder for them!
I also see the point with teens, in my settlement, when u go to town, u eat at a certain fast-food joint. Eat's easiest.
Other adverts I can't stand: those dolls!