To think junk food adverts should be banned ?

[Lardlizard]

Like posters for kfc etc

Why?

Why?

Because society is getting so fat.

YANBU. Advertising influences us more than we think.

No, absolutely not. I absolutely object to the nanny state. No, No and thrice no!

It seems to have worked well in banning advertising on cigarettes

Banning advertising on cigarettes wasn't what worked. It was increasing the price so they're completely unaffordable for most average people.

Not saying that's a bad thing by the way! Just saying.

It seems to have worked well in banning advertising on cigarettes

Trust me, it's the price. Have you seen the cost of those things now?!

But who will decide what is 'junk food'. If kfc is 'junk' is Subway (ie a sandwich)? Is pizza 'junk'? AllAll advertising at the moment for all that Christmas food - should we ban that? What about alcohol ads? Cars are dangerous - ban ads for them?

It's the price with cigarettes.

What would you put into the ban class? Everything except lettuce? Because Maccies big mac has less calories than number of bella italia salads... Would it include chocolate? Any sweets? Cheeses? Supermarket's party food?

YABU. People have personal responsibility. Everything in moderation.

We shouldn’t have to hide advertisements or push up the price of things like KFC, sweets, chocolate, soft drinks etc. because some people cannot control their eating habits.

What classes as junk food?

I don’t think teaching children that some things are bad and some are good when it comes to food helps. It’s much better for them to learn about moderation rather than making some foods into “forbidden fruits”

There is nothing at all wrong with the odd KFC in a balanced diet.

I disagree OP.

Who is to say whet is junk food?

High fat and salty food perhaps? So ban adverts for camembert or olives?

Kfc etc are food outlets which rely on advertising the reasons people eatfast food are their own surely the reason people are fat is their responsibility ?

I like KFC.

Not relevant I know.

Of course banning the adverts helped reduce smoking. Why else would the tobacco companies have objected to it and tried to lobby to be allowed to continue? If advertising made no difference they'd have been happy to save the expenditure. The marketing people know how important brand awareness is in generating SALES.

That wouldn't make any difference anyway, it's the wrong approach.

Look at all the ridiculous threads where posters fall over themselves to show how witty they are and need to eat ridiculous portions of food every 2 hours, and the even more ridiculous "fat shaming" expression to disagree with any common sense point related to weight.

We need over-eating and bad food to become unfashionable, not by banning adverts. celebs are skinny, but it has no effect on the street, we need to reverse the trend.

I work in a shop and complain regularly at the selection of 'cereal' we stock - most of it is very high sugar; nobody needs chocolate at breakfast! We only carry a couple of lines of sugar free muesli but at least six different types of very sugary flakes (often with added nuts and chocolate). It's unnecessary. When I was young, sweet breakfast was an extra spoon of sugar on your cornflakes.

Also, 'portion' calories. Yeah, right...

Do the same as cigarettes, 20% tax on junk food

Do the same as cigarettes, 20% tax on junk food

Same problem like with ban. Define bad food

Nope. People need to take responsibility for themselves.

I do think there needs to be an advertising campaign about the negative effects on health that junk food has, similar to the smoking kills adverts.

20% tax on junk food

but, again, what is "junk food".

Also, you can eat the most beautiful food in the world, if your portion sizes are wrong, you'll still get fat.

Well MN gets hysterical over peas, fruit, biscuits and basically all food except for maybe porridge, so all food adverts would be banned!

I'm a fatty and I've never once seen an ad for KFC and thought "yeah, I could murder some of that,"

Junk food isn't the problem - the fact most people on a lower wage either don't h ab e time to cook or don't know how to cook from scratch is a big part of it. Plus calories from junk food are cheaper which again appeals to those of us who are skint.

People having (basically unlimited) access to cheap booze also isn't helping. It's a complicated subject and not so simple as banning adverts.

Plus calories from junk food are cheaper which again appeals to those of us who are skint.

I don't agree that that's the case anymore.
But! I agree that problem is that people don't cook.

I can't see it making much difference at this point, everyone will still know that junk food exists and will carry on buying it regardless of whether they've seen an advert for it or not.