Food advertising

[SJC]

Since I am having to watch what I eat, it seems I am seeing sweet stuff everywhere! I was watching TV just now and I saw an advert for Nutella chocolate spread, followed by an advert for Haribos. I was just thinking how indoctrinated we all are to think there's nothing wrong with sweet stuff when the next advert made me laugh. It was an advert for medical/health negligence claims.

 

[Squire Fulwood]

How do you think we all got into this mess? TV ads are powerful. In a way it makes life simpler. When I go to the supermarket there are whole aisles that I don't have to walk down.

 

[Jaylee]

I tuned out of that stuff since I was a kid...

My rule of thumb is if a food company is aggressively advertising & sponsoring it can't be that good for you...

 

[AlexMBrennan]

Food ads aren't exactly making health claims ("this ice cream is delicious!")... and to be honest, I'd think a better question is why you ever thought that corporations trying to sell their products would particularly care about your health.

Also, the new wave of "you can have X as part of a healthy diet" is essentially a response to consumers wising up - whilst technically the same is true for shaving cream, it's now your fault for getting fat because you don't run three marathons each day to burn the calories from that delicious sugar coated with a little bit if cornflakes

 

[noblehead]

Advertising is a powerful tool, all the tv we watch now is recorded or on catch-up so we fast-forward the adverts