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[bonbonlavie]

I keep seeing folk covering their eyes and demanding the government stop companies advertising junk food and it's starting to infuriate me. When did it stop being the parents' responsibility to say no to children? I'm aware of the might of advertising but surely to god parents have the power to say no?! I know I'll get flamed but I feel like we're in a nanny state.

Children don't want things they don't know exist!
Trust me- having no television has meant years of Christmases and birthdays with really very little pestering from children about what they must have.
Of course, they pick things up in the playground, but if children weren't marketed to, they wouldn't know about many of the products, particularly as many families use online grocery shopping now.

And it’s Jamie Oliver and his band wagoner mates, they’re so condescending which is what I can’t stand. It’s ok for them to push their crap on kids when they feel like it

It's also not about the outright banning of advertising. For decades now there's been very little control on the manufacturing and sale of food in terms of what they put into food and what they are allowed to say in adverts, it's about holding the food manufacturers to higher standards.

I didn't like the 100 calorie snack campaign because I don't really agree that's the only way to be healthy and its a bit controlling to be told by government in such detail how to eat.
But the advertising one I do agree with. If advertising doesn't work or not that well, we are still not losing anything by it being banned, if it does work why are we allowing people to get rich by flogging unhealthy food to our kids? For parents it's a no lose situation.

I had a job working in a toy shop before Christmas. All the toys that were being advertised that year sold like hotcakes and were at least three times more expensive than an equivalent toy that was not being advertised.

I also remember when I was a child wanting my mother to buy some soap powder that was advertised on television, because I felt it would be like having a celebrity come into the house.

People are crackers if they think it is ok to advertise junk food to children.