Food Marketing

Congressional Letter-Writing Campaign Helps Torpedo Voluntary Food Marketing Guidelines for Kids

The Sunlight Foundation | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Food Marketing, Cdc, American Beverage Association, Lobbying, Pepsico, Food Marketing to Children, Ftc, Junk Food Marketing, Fda, Amy Klobuchar, Coca Cola, Federal Trade Commission, Politics News

While the proposed voluntary principles set for food marketers are ambitious and would take time to put into place, the public health stakes could not be higher.

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Into the Mouths of Babes: The Case for Minding Our Business!

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.02.2012

The wellbeing of children is everybody's business, and everybody should mind that children are staring down the barrel of a glow-in-the-dark cheese doodle or sugar-laden cereal loop at foreshadowed health and foreshortened lives.

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How Technology Is Changing What We Want to Eat

Kit Yarrow, Ph.D. | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Consumer Behavior, Food Trends, Food Marketing, Technology, Consumer Psychology, Popchips, Food Trends Tech, Technology and Food, Technology News

Fast-forward to 2012 and technology has indeed had a notable impact on how and what we eat. Not because it's changed the way we cook, but more because it's changed who we are, how we think, and opened up, literally, a world of options.

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Food Marketing to... Neonates? Bad Form, Bad Formula!

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.09.2012

The best possible start in life is every baby's birthright. For the vast majority of babies, breastfeeding is an important part of that formula. The marketing of other formulas to neonates as an alternative to breast milk... most certainly is not!

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2012: The Year to Stop Playing Nice

Michele Simon | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Food Marketing, Organic Food, Food Marketing to Children, Activism, Sustainable Food, Food Politics, Public Health, Food Safety, Junk Food Marketing, Politics, Food News

Given all the defeats and set-backs this year due to powerful food industry lobbying, the good food movement should by now be collectively shouting: I am mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.

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McDonald's Launches Its Own TV Channel: Say 'No' to Television and 'Yes' to Your Family

Marlene Schwartz, Ph.D. | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Marketing, Junk Food Marketing, Food Marketing, Children's Health, Advertising, Junk-Food-Marketing-to-Kids, Fast Food, Mcdonald's Tv Channel, Mcdonald's Tv, Parents News

TV for dinner? Fast-food restaurants are taking hold of this trend by putting televisions in plain view for their diners. McDonald's recently launched its own TV channel. Why might this be a problem?

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Repubs Scuttle Plans For Junk Food Marketing Overhaul

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Healthy Food, Video, Advertising, Healthy Kids, Cereal Advertising Kids, Junk Food Marketing, Childrens Health, Junk Food Advertising, Tony the Tiger, Food Marketing, Food Brand Mascot, Food News

WASHINGTON -- Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam can rest easy. Government officials fine-tuning guidelines for marketing food to children say they won't p...

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Nickelodeon: Not the Only Company Reaching Young Children Through Advertisements Intended for Older Children

Marlene Schwartz, Ph.D. | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Television, Food Marketing, Children, Advertising, Health, Spongebob, Spongebob Squarepants, Parents News

Research has shown that advertising to very young children is harmful. Until age 7 or 8, children do not have the cognitive capacity to understand that advertising presents a biased point-of-view.

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How Did Our Food Get So Crazy?

Christina Pirello | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Big Food, Food Marketing, Healthy Living Body, Food Company Profits, Nutrition, Unhealthy Diets, Junk Food Marketing, Unhealthy Food, Healthy Living News

Sandwiched between each program are ads for food, all kinds of food -- bizarre food, excessive food, greasy, salty, sugary food, diet food, fast food, convenient food -- but no food that supports human health.

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50 Years Of Food Marketing Trends That Fool People

CHOW | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Food Packaging, Food Marketing Trends, Food Trends, Food Marketing, 50 Years Food Marketing, Food News

There are plenty of words that mean nothing on food packages: new and improved, better flavor, artisan. But just like clothes and music, food packagin...

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Feds Ask Companies To Limit Food Marketing To Kids

Slashfood | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Food Marketing, Food Marketing to Children, Junk Food Ads, Lucky Charms Cereal, Food Politics, Marketing, Marketing to Children, Kellogg's, Childhood Obesity, Food News

Is the federal government about to put Tony the Tiger out of a job? In the face of a national epidemic of childhood obesity, a collection of federa...

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Government To Crack Down On Marketing Junk Food To Kids

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Junk Food Advertising for Children, Junk Food Advertising to Children, Food Advertising, Food Marketing, Food Marketing to Children, Junk Food Advertising and Children, Junk Food Advertising, Childhood Obesity, Food Advertising Children, Junk Food Advertising Debate, Nutrition, Food Politics, Junk Food Advertising Ban, Food Advertising to Children, Diet and Nutrition, Home News

WASHINGTON -- The government is pressuring food companies to cut back on marketing unhealthy foods to children, releasing guidelines Thursday that cou...

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Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From Matt Damon and Eggs

James Napoli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eggs, Clint Eastwood, Expiration Dates, Food Marketing, Matt Damon, Don Draper, Food-Advertising, Hereafter, False Advertising, Academy Awards, Comedy News

First my eggs came in a carton with an expiration date stamped on one end. Then they stamped the eggs themselves. This was unsettling. Even my fruit has the decency to use a sticker.

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Truth and Marketing: Why Sliced Bread Was Never A Great Invention

Darya Pino, Ph.D | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, Food Marketing, Bread, Sliced Bread, Food News

Sliced bread was never a great invention, it was great marketing. "The best thing since sliced bread" was derived from an ad campaign."

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Advertising, Children, And Public Health

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Marketing, Federal Trade Commission, Kids, Cspi, Health, Healthy Living News

What kind of society would invest billions in biomedical research to identify the dietary causes of illnesses, only to encourage young children to eat the very foods that cause those diseases?

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10 Things We Should Teach Every Kid About Food

Rob Smart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farms, Consumer Food Expenditures, Fast Food, Cooking, Children, Farmers, Education, Food, Food Retail, Community, Schools, Home Cooking, Gmo, Innovation, School, Pro Food, Eating, Industrial Food, Sustainable, Organic, Curriculum, School Lunch, Food Marketing, Green News

We must find creative ways to reintroduce food in its broadest sense to children's everyday activities, starting with school, in order to close the knowledge gap between farm and plate.

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Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Fat, Weight Loss, Sugar, Pesticides, Fast Food, American Diet, Prevention-Magazine, Steroids, Weight Loss Tips, Herbicides, Fast Food Industry, Weight, 1950s, Papa-Johnss-Pizza, Salt, Wendy's, McDonald's, Marketing, Processed Food, Losing Weight, Food Marketing, 1950s-Housewife, Canned Foods, Growth Hormones, Weight Gain, Blackberry Addiction, Pollan Food, Food Labels, Weight Control, Michael Pollan, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Health, Real Food, Toxic Waste, Consumer Protection, Heart Attack, Healthy Living News

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

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Seeing Through the Food Industry's "Personal Responsibility" Smoke Screen

Rob Smart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumer Food Expenditures, Retail, Conventional Food, Personal Responsibility, Family, Cooking, Food, Food Retail, Community, Home Cooking, Business, Innovation, Food Preparation, Triple Bottom Line, Pro Food, Eating, Industrial Food, Sustainable, Supermarkets, Food Marketing, Local, Consumers, Real Food, Grocery Prices, Walmart, Unhealthy Food, Food Politics, Cheap Groceries, Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Cargill, General Mills, Food Policy, Family-Meal-Time, Healthy Eating Habits, Grocery Shopping, Family Meals, Unhealthy Eating, Local Food, The-Food-Revolution, Grocery Stores, Green News

"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.

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Guess Who's Controlling Our Food Supply

Rob Smart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labeling, Farms, Consumer Food Expenditures, Usda, Pro Food, Monsanto, Industrial Food, Politics, Farmers, Sustainable, Food Retail, Food Safety, Supermarkets, Local, Food Marketing, Regulation, Business, Gmo, Green News

It is hard to understand how a handful of companies have amassed so much control over food ingredients found in an estimated 75 percent of processed foods in America's supermarkets.

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Why Are We Americans So Fat?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Food Marketing, Children, Health, Nutrition, Food, Weight Loss, Obesity, Diet, Children's Health, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News

The food industry has spent 25 million dollars a day selling kids frosted pop tarts, sugary cereal and candy.

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