alt Hacker NewsI could see supporting with this, but it does seem like an abuse of the 'for the children' argument for this.
Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job.
Also some chicken nuggets are bad, but some average a gram of protein per 10 calories, which is a pretty good ratio, and especially for frozen food. Can't help but think this is too broad.
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> Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job.
If true why do cereal companies spend billions on advertising directly to children? For the fun of it?
> Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job.
I don't believe you have children of your own; is this an armchair opinion or your own lived experience?
Anyway while on paper this is true, in practice kids will ask for this and may get it as a treat, or they may get it from somewhere else. And as a one-off, that's fine, but they do get influenced by ads to want more of it at any time. Same with fast food chains, somehow the ones that aren't available where I live got an almost mythical status with the teenager here. A Taco Bell did open here but honestly it was mediocre and overpriced.
> Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job.
So.. then.. why are we advertising to them _at all_?
> Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job.
I don’t think this is true in practice; it feels sufficiently obvious that children’s tastes influence what they get fed that I’m not going to bother to find a citation
more so in the past, there was a lot more food advertising directed at kids, because the thought was that kids could annoy their parents enough to drag the whole family to an establishment. and some marketing tricks work a lot better on children because of their social settings and general impulsiveness (e.g. "All the cool kids have Lunchables")
So targeting ads as the primary villain seems a bit like shifting responsibility away
>Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job.
Damn, someone better ring up the cereal companies and tell them to stop advertising, I bet they'll feel foolish realizing they've wasted all that money!
This is not systems thinking though. It take a lot of will for parents to fight kids desire for junk food from social pressure alone. Should parents be perfect citizens that make 10000 correct micro decisions a month correctly every time? Or can society help a bit by blocking some of the predators?
It is like "just say no". Thay'll do it for drug addicition. Simple.