David Barboza’s article “If You Pitch It, They Will Eat” he makes the claim that fast food marketing geared towards children is what will make the most money and he explains how. Barboza talks about how statistically this is changing eating habits and what we are doing to fix this. Barboza brings up interesting facts on how places like McDonald's makes their money and how marketing affects kids. He also brings up statements from authorities that backup his claims and that would further engage the reader by bringing up smaller details that we are consumers wouldn't even consider. His statistics would be the number of schools that have changed their operation and the percentages of health problems adding on to the obesity epidemic.
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According to Barboza, in 2002 food companies were spending $15 billion and 20 percent of the nation’s schools serve fast food. As of the time this was written and even today legislation has been in the process to fix some of these issues by taking small steps including banning school vending machines. Personally, I have yet to see a school with a vending machine in person, this confirms for me that the school vending machines have been banned for a while now. Kids are more vulnerable to be in contact with fast food if it is sold in a place such as their own school or any place kids would typically be such as parks or shopping malls. It is harder and almost impossible to affect kid’s eating habits when they are in an area surrounded by fast food, but that is why it does matter that a place like a school is affected by these …show more content…
As Barboza said “Product tie-ins are everywhere.” he supports this by cartoons like Spongebob Squarepants and Scooby Doo having their face slapped onto anything to make a quick buck. His example would include things such as fruit snacks, juice boxes, candies, cookies, and a number of different things. Walter Wilett says “How often do you see fruits and vegetables marketed?” this is true, not many companies advertise healthy food mainly because of fast food taking over. The most famous example of healthy food using a mascot would be The Jolly Green Giant advertising vegetables such as broccoli to the intended audience being children. According to Elizabeth Lascoutx “We’re not in the position to say this food item cannot be part of a healthy diet.” in some respects this statement does make a lot of sense. People who diet and exercise on a daily basis tend to be well educated on what foods they should avoid eating to be able to keep the physique that they have built for themselves, however there are some that have what they call “cheat days”. Cheat days are essentially ignoring their diet and eating unhealthy foods, sometimes including chocolates or potato chips, the people that have cheat days are only able to keep their physique by limiting this amount of junk food consumed and knowing how to work it
Some factual …show more content…
According to Barboza, in 2002 food companies were spending $15 billion and 20 percent of the nation’s schools serve fast food. As of the time this was written and even today legislation has been in the process to fix some of these issues by taking small steps including banning school vending machines. Personally, I have yet to see a school with a vending machine in person, this confirms for me that the school vending machines have been banned for a while now. Kids are more vulnerable to be in contact with fast food if it is sold in a place such as their own school or any place kids would typically be such as parks or shopping malls. It is harder and almost impossible to affect kid’s eating habits when they are in an area surrounded by fast food, but that is why it does matter that a place like a school is affected by these …show more content…
As Barboza said “Product tie-ins are everywhere.” he supports this by cartoons like Spongebob Squarepants and Scooby Doo having their face slapped onto anything to make a quick buck. His example would include things such as fruit snacks, juice boxes, candies, cookies, and a number of different things. Walter Wilett says “How often do you see fruits and vegetables marketed?” this is true, not many companies advertise healthy food mainly because of fast food taking over. The most famous example of healthy food using a mascot would be The Jolly Green Giant advertising vegetables such as broccoli to the intended audience being children. According to Elizabeth Lascoutx “We’re not in the position to say this food item cannot be part of a healthy diet.” in some respects this statement does make a lot of sense. People who diet and exercise on a daily basis tend to be well educated on what foods they should avoid eating to be able to keep the physique that they have built for themselves, however there are some that have what they call “cheat days”. Cheat days are essentially ignoring their diet and eating unhealthy foods, sometimes including chocolates or potato chips, the people that have cheat days are only able to keep their physique by limiting this amount of junk food consumed and knowing how to work it