We're Not Buying It: Stop junk food marketing to kids

[clearlogicify]

They solely function to make money. Simple.

[SeizureBobcat]

Or maybe people could get off of their asses and try some parenting?

Teach your kids what's healthy and what's not, and trust them to make the right decisions. Don't expect others to parent your kids for you.

[sycorangemen87]

How about get your child off his ass and get some exercise? Parents make the choices, not these companies. I ate my fair share of these products as a kid and I'm perfectly healthy 24 year old. Its called sports, and playing outside. We would make a game out of kicking a can as a kid if we were bored. Now my 13 year old cousin sits inside all day playing xbox. Parents are to blame.

[Atrudas]

It's true some junk food ads are misleading, but you just need to read nutrition values to know it's mostly fats and sugar. Tbh if a child has a healthy nutrition at home and makes excercise, I don't see any problem with eating some sugary cereals or drinking soda once in a while.

Having junk food in schools is horrendous tho... since school has responsabilities on the children they should give healthy food in cafeterias...

[yurianne07]

super First World Problem

[yurianne07]

@dirtyscrotumpuncher2 are they asian lol ;)

[alexicon89]

ONLY DRINK WATER AND PURE FRUIT JUICES = ALL YOU CAN EAT + DONT GET FAT.

Thats how it works for me but then i also don't eat obscene amounts of candy / fat food, i don't like it that much lol.

But seriously, you are all in control over what you eat.

Check the labels whats in it , research it, drink WATER WATER WATER WATER.

Water is the most healthy beverage ever.

[MyZendar]

"You hear a lot these days about how big food and beveridge companies have our kid's best interests at heart."

I hear VERY FRIGGIN LITTLE about how parents take responsibility for raising a child.

[booboowilson10101]

who cares, eat it or don't eat it it it its not a big dealio dood

[squanto2]

Teach your kids that all advertising is stupid. Teach them, by your example, to MUTE ALL ADVERTISING.

[janstark]

Fat is good! Remove the trans fats, eat pastured meat and you're good to go!

[5haughtons]

It's not just the sugar and unhealthy fats that are causing our children's health crisis. It is the wheat too--which once our bodies digest it is the same as sugar. And pointing that out is an even bigger threat to the Food Industry than a focus on sugar and unhealthy fats.

[mkrulic517439]

@5haughtons you might want to check into glycemic index. wheat isnt that bad but yea you could do better carbs. all carbs breakdown to glucose tho. even greens.

sugars and unhealthy fats combined w/ a sedentary life style is a killer. combine that with fast food which is who knows what nutritionally and you got where we are today.

[arturobastard]

The message is good but the narration is horrid. What ever happened to the difference between A,E,I,O and U? These kinds of sloppy pronunciations originated from these very corporations via their commercials and programming. Voices like this are used because they decrease expectations. Even big banks use them now on their helplines. Who expects anything from someone who speaks this way? NOBODY. I miss Walter Cronkite...

[i8hy6e3]

they want to kill poor people. 1% people never eat junk food. 99% stupid poors eat junks and work forever and die early.

[Supermom101x2]

Terrific video! Any one else remember the days when advertising cigarettes and liquor- to adults - on television - was... illegal? Now a days, America (and her children) have never been fatter or sicker and it's so strange we can't seem to figure out why.

Could it be that we are addicted to highly processed, factory farmed, fake-food products?

Anyone else remember the "candy in a can" product placement during American Idol?

p.s. Me thinks the first post is a food industry hack....

[bitchbea1]

A serious fact...

[marlenebeth]

It's not just TV - they go into schools, place products in movies,and put advergames online - you can't shied children from EVERYTHING! Sure, parents can refuse to buy these foods (until kids have their own money), but what kind of society lets an industry actively and deliberately WORK AGAINST parents?? Do we let cigarette or alcohol companies market to children and then tell parents "don't buy these for your kids?" That would be stupid - and so is letting food companies market to children.

[oneawesomemofo]

while it may be the parents job/choice to decide what to buy and what not to buy, they shouldnt have their parental authority undermined by (b)million dollar ads targeting children, it promotes consumerism from cradle to grave.

[aimeefuller79]

I applaud the idea that corporations are hawking unhealthy food... But I have to place the ultimate responsibility on the PARENTS!! In my house we do not watch TV! Therefore.... No ADS for crappy food! Problem solved! It's a choice. You choose to let your kids watch tv and see ads, then later you choose to buy crappy food- or NOT! I say choose not to!

[mkrulic517439]

@aimeefuller79 your kids think your a dick.

[RingneckDoveFan]

Who cares how they market to kids. Let them show all the lame commercials they want. PARENTS - Just DON'T buy it for your kids.

It's so simple. No need to start a lawsuit over it.

[mkrulic517439]

@RingneckDoveFan clearly written by someone who does NOT have children.

[RingneckDoveFan]

Parents SHOULD NOT be letting their kids watch so much TV that kids are changing their mind on the way they look at society, themselves and what they want to eat. Fact is, kids have no reason to watch more than an hour of tv a day. If having your kid sit in front of the tv is the only way to keep them occupied, then that sucks; you are clearly not fit to care for a child. As for the other comment, ok? Parents have rule over their kids. They control what they eat. Stupid commercials don't.

[mkrulic517439]

@RingneckDoveFan yea and we should all hold hands and drink coke and sing Kumba-muther fuckin-yah. sometimes a movie is a family event. dont define happiness for others, it makes you look republican.

[RingneckDoveFan]

@mkrulic517439

The media and commercials are brainwashing. Having a kid watch TV is a death-sentence. Either tell them that those commercials are BS (in a child-telling way), and let them increase their amount of tv as they get older, where they are able to understand what they are seeing.

[mkrulic517439]

@RingneckDoveFan how old are you?

[RingneckDoveFan]

@mkrulic517439

13 months.