Truthiness
Mar 25 2009, 11:33 PM

"Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids."
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category...9113528j6QeGRxmOr
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrAntiestablis...86A45ADF66F18B4
smarrie
Mar 26 2009, 01:11 AM
Who is last on the 'look-out' list...in perpetuum profits over people. Recently the public hoo-ha against sugar content in cereal (some more than 50%) has led to legislated 'reductions'...success? Not quite, the industry reduced the size of the serving bowl (no change in sugar content). The hullabaloo has evaporated however.
Remember the claim that the cereal box itself had more nutritional value, than its content...refined carbohydrates kill. Who gets the last ha-ha in all this hubbub, or who is the butt for all this galloping diarrhea of consumerism.
(It's all a minor concern in comparison with the catastrophic death of creativity in childhood...deep hurt in the heart!)
[Great post T! also thanks anyways for the A.I. un-info]
tsquarepate
Jul 18 2009, 02:16 PM
Gone...Any chance of putting it back up?
visualvendetta
Jul 20 2009, 03:54 PM
Here is another link to the playlist on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrAntiestablis...86A45ADF66F18B4Quote from movie, "Isn't it the choice of Parents?" "Isn't the parents responsible?"
That is a deep question.
"Pets don't get fat from watching Advertising." but the owners of the pets buy the foods.