UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
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Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
#2I hope other countries take action soon. It's deeply irresponsible how we allow advertisements and Big Sugar/Fast Food companies to exploit colorful cartoon characters and misleading health claims to hook people—especially children—on excessive sugar and fat consumption. This not only fosters unhealthy eating habits but also conditions them to crave specific branded flavors from an early age.
Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
#3I don’t think this goes far enough. Kids see adverts for this stuff in so many other places, TV is just one small step. Take a kid into a supermarket and there’s junk food advertised everywhere.
Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
#4Baffling to me how advertising to those without a stable source of above living-cost income is allowed in the first place. Let alone advertising to children.
Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
#5Can we do gambling ads next? We banned tobacco ads and then seemingly forgot the lesson that it's actually bad to let advertisers shove addictive and self-destructive products in the publics face, including to former addicts at risk of relapse.
Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
#6What about adverts on YouTube and TikTok and other online platforms? I doubt kids/teenagers watch much TV at all these days.
Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
#7I don’t think this goes far enough. Kids see adverts for this stuff in so many other places, TV is just one small step. Take a kid into a supermarket and there’s junk food advertised everywhere.
It's a first step. The larger point here is awareness.
Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
#8Well I didn't understand how -besides the cereals maybe- are unhealthy
> Breakfast cereals including ready-to-eat cereals, granola, muesli, porridge oats and other oat-based cereals.
until I re-read and saw this:
> But the new restrictions will not apply to healthier options such as natural porridge oats and unsweetened yoghurt.
So I think it's not clear in the first sentence but "ready-to-eat" is meant to apply to all the items in the list and not just the cereals.
Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
#9Good thing they made this move once daytime tv was basically irrelevant to anyone under 40 or it might've had some impact.
Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
#10Can we do gambling ads next? We banned tobacco ads and then seemingly forgot the lesson that it's actually bad to let advertisers shove addictive and self-destructive products in the publics face, including to former addicts at risk of relapse.
>Can we do gambling ads next?
As long as we ban ads for stock trading platforms (i.e. gambling for the professional classes) at the same time.