This is a David vs. Goliath fight, with consumers on one side and giant multi-national chemical and
junk food companies on the other.
Not exact matches
For Nestle, which first sold milk chocolate in the 1880s, a consumer shift away from
junk and sugary
foods has led the Swiss
company to focus
on «nutrition, health and wellness,» although it says it is committed to its non-U.S. confectionery business.
While we wait for our government to go through it's usual «slow to respond / proceed cautiously / let's hear both sides for a few years before we spend anything
on this issue», my stalwart position remains that, in the meantime, we need to do everything we can as parents, educators, private
companies, friends and neighbors to simply offer our kids real, wholesome
food over the
junk.
I agree we should not give
junk food companies «the opportunity to instill
on a daily basis lifelong brand loyalties among a highly impressionable population, i.e., school children.»
They said that «
food companies should only be allowed to offer such deals
on junk food if they did an equal number of promotions
on fruit and vegetables.
In fact, just looking at the
companies kids today like, it seems as if most of our nation's youth spend the majority of their time gorging themselves
on junk food.