With childhood obesity becoming epidemic in the UK, should food advertising to children be allowed to continue?
FOR: Jeremy Preston vs. Neville Rigby AGAINST
… Advertising to children 1st April 2004 Comment Advertising … Additives Fast Food Sugar Food And Health Children Consumerism Processed Foods Green … in the UK, should food advertising to children be allowed to continue? FOR: Jeremy …
… citizens, yet the level of tooth decay in children in these unfluoridated countries has … resulted in the removal of body parts from children and yet was almost entirely … chances and lower expectations. Every day children are going into hospital in the UK …
New Labour’s close ties to the fast-food industry are working against the interests of public health
… blocking adverts for unhealthy food during children’s television programmes. This … review that shows ‘advertising does affect children’s food choices and behaviour, and not … overview of the market for food promotion to children, evaluating television’s role in the …
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way...
… Human Rights Violations Allergies Risk Children Recycling Green Living Pollution … developing brains and nervous systems of children. Any lead released into the … for concern, but when it is raining down on children, that’s criminal. In 1984 Ohio passed …
The most successful celebrity endorsement ever, Prunella Scales’ TV ads have added more than £2.2 billion to Tesco’s profts. And yet she says she really cares about the environment.
… In the Mirror earlier this year you attacked children’s junk food, calling Dairylea Lunches … a way of shifting stock that's not selling. 5 Children When Sainsbury launched cooking classes for children (for which parents pay £5) during the …
Costing £2.9 billion, the UK’s new police communication system Tetra has been described by one independent scientist as likely to cause ‘more civilian deaths than all the world’s terrorist organisations put together’
… barrier and degrades the immune system. Children are known to absorb far more … is known to affect the brain rhythms, and children are particularly vulnerable... The … At a school in Littlehampton, Sussex, 11 children had to be sent home on the day that a …
from the pulpit
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory…
I'm the Reverend Billy.
… advisory… I'm the Reverend Billy. Dearest children, awake from Christmas! In Ye Olde … charge parents' credit cards every time their children imagine weightlessness of any kind, … and turn our backs to that screen. Seriously children, consumerism is a joke, but stop …
As the supermarket doors glide open there they are – cosmetically perfect, irresistibly firm, brilliantly coloured fruit and vegetables. And yet, when you get them home, they taste of nothing. Is it the way you cooked them, or have you just selected badly? No, you’ve been conned.
… aisle, he or she might even conclude that his children’s children live in a latter-day Garden of Eden. …
Are you a ‘premium loyal’, a ‘loyal low spender’, a ‘can’t stay away’… or don’t you care? Tesco does, and uses the data collected from your loyalty card to dictate what you buy, when you buy and how much you buy.
… for the supermarkets. When they enrol their children for Kids Club, Tesco asks parents if … store to send free samples direct to their children. Seventy per cent say yes. As well as … internet service in the world. When your children are learning, they’re staring at the …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend Billy
… thieves at Bank of America was $675m. Children you SINNED! The traders would … the droughts and rising waters, the burned children of our technological, colonial wars… …
Some 245 Indian villages are in the middle of being destroyed by a $7 billion dam project that will consume more energy than it provides and has even been condemned by its World Bank sponsors.
… arrested everyone. Around 100 men, women and children were all carted off to jail, where … It was a harrowing sight. Personal items like children’s shoes, clothes, combs, earthenware … under a single canvas, where they now slept. Children, usually so lively and eager to meet …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
… Community Fresh Water Boycotts Campaigns US Children Incineration Health Politics And … be outrageous. The author Molly Bang wrote a children’s book about my story called Nobody …
An invisible electrosmog engulfs us, destroying the health of many who do not even know why they have fallen ill. Why is no one listening to the mass of evidence telling us we are frying our brains?
… learning, and pulmonary function in school children, increased white blood cells in … and an altered sex ratio (more girls) in children born during the years of the radar’s … zones; a ban on cell phone use by children; and a ban on cell phones and digital …
Most discussion of population misses the point. The earth simply cannot support our lifestyle.
… they, believe it or not, have less children. This is well-nigh inconceivable to … They do this by breast-feeding their existing children for many years, by abstinence, by … killing a lot of people or not having many children and waiting for the population to …
'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden
… OF THE DEVIL to the sleepy conservative children with their national bed-time story at …
We are all aware that the weather is never quite the same from one year to the next. That is all part of the natural variability of climate. It is the task of climatologists to tease out any change to climate, such as global warming, from all that variability.
… the world will not be habitable for our children – let alone our grandchildren. All national governments should …
For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court.
… your farm records, the records of your children, etc, and actually do this for three … 400 or 500 people it is not uncommon to find children – babies under the age of one year – …
If you want evidence that global warming is happening, you need only look to China. Unseen by the rest of the world, much of the north of the country is turning into a land of droughts, dust storms and deserted villages.
… The narrow road was swarming with schoolchildren on bicycles, and as we neared a small … further 31 missing. Most of the victims were children out playing in the fields and unable … and he had no way of sending word. Even her children had abandoned the home: both now …
She entwined my whole arm in her trunk, held it there as she breathed deeply several times, and then put the tip of her trunk in her mouth and sighed. I came a little closer and let her explore my face and neck freely until I could hear a soft growl of pure delight: the elephant equivalent of purring.
… like those on airport aprons, via which children once boarded howdahs (seated saddles) …
In February a report by George W Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) suggested that fast food workers might in the future be classified as manufacturing workers. A CEA report asked: ‘When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a “service”, or is it combining inputs to “manufacture’ a product?’
… to aim sophisticated mass marketing at children; a view of farm animals as industrial …
In the past 50 years the global economy has grown by over 500 per cent... the richest fifth of the world now earn 86 per cent of global income… the poorest fifth earn just 1.3 per cent… life expectancy in the world’s most ‘developed’ countries is 79 years… in the least ‘developed’ it is still just 42… we consume 22 million tonnes of oil every day… chop down 1 per cent of the world’s forests every year… and have killed 90 per cent of the world’s big fish. Has the time come to give up on globalisation?
… be said that a nation is wealthy because its children are buying the Coca-Cola and Barbie …