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During my hour of watching cartoons, I did not see one commercial that was targeting children to buy, want, or eat a certain type of food. There were many products though that were aimed towards younger kids to buy toys that you had to pay three payments of $19.99 for. While watching tv later in the day I saw many food products advertised for Burger King, Laffy Taffy, Corn Puffs, and other various foods. Maybe I watched tv during the wrong hour of the morning for foods to be advertised; however, around noon was when the actual foods started to be advertised. I watched my cartoons around 8 in the morning so I believe they were trying to target young kids into buying ridiculous toy items that would never work like they showed on the tv. The commercials I saw advertised for foods were not very truthful about being healthy at all. They made it seem like if you wanted a certain job, or to look a certain way, or to be like someone you had to eat that food. In the Burger King commercial they did not say how bad a whopper is for you, or how many calories are in french fries. To sum it up, food commercials avoid talking about how bad certain foods are for you because they know that once it is exposed they will lose business, for example at McDonalds has all of their nutritional facts on the BACK of their placemats, not a very noticeable place if you ask me.
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Article posted March 10, 2008 at 05:05 PM •
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