Sunday, April 15, 2012
Food Argument
Wootan and Liodice both try to back up their claims about the government regulation of advertising about food and young children. They both do a great job with their supporting arguments. Wootan is taking a stance on how particular advertising will just make kids even more fat. So by advertising only healthy foods unlike Mcdonals commercials, for example, kids will start wanting the healthy foods all the time. On the other hand, Liodice believes this concept is crazy. She wants advertisements to have a freedom of whatver they want to advertise. These companies worked to get their marketing strategy within television and other popular ways to get noticed. I believe that kids are getting obese with the junk food commercials but it's the parents we have to regulate. They're the ones that provide for their children, not the kids going out on their own. They wouldn't even have transportation access or money to get the junk food. So I firmly believe liodice's position is valid and strong.
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I also agree with Liodice food argument. It is not up to the government to try and regulate food advertising. Kids may see these advertisements on television, radio and even billboards every day and want this food. Ultimately it is the parents who feed them. It is up to the parents to regulate their children’s food intake. The parents are the ones who got out and buy their kids food and feed them. Most kids don’t have the means to go out and buy fast food. The parents need to make the choices for their children not the government. Even if they make the wrong choices it is their right as a parent. You can’t blame it on the advertising.
I also believe that it is the parents that have to regulate this problem, not the companies. Greasy fast food can be available anywhere, but if children are educated about what the fast foods have and if they are taught to eat nutritional foods at a young age they can make better choices. This education can only be enforced at home by the parents. Children are one of the groups that are most easily influenced, and because advertisement will always be around everyone, including around children, parents have to make sure that they can provide this nutritional education so that children can make better choices on their own.
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