Fast Food Advertising Should Be Banned

If you were just at home watching your television you most like saw an advertisement that made you hungry or at least tried to do so. Fast food advertisers are becoming enemies to society by creating such poor eating habits because of what they advertise. A question a lot of us as ourselves is: Should fast food advertising be banned? Fast food advertising can be a very controversial subject and everyone views the issue differently. Fast food advertising has become more popular over the years and a lot of money is being spent on this kind of advertising alone. I, like many others believe that food advertising should and needs to be banned. Over recent years the number of people suffering from obesity has increased significantly. Advertisers

Advertisers always use a well-liked character from a movie to catch children’s attention and get them to crave that food. What is sad about it is that the foods are always really bad and unhealthy. The article states that “Parents have a particularly tough time saying no because spots frequently feature beloved TV and movie characters like Scooby-Doo”(McConnel 1). I can see why it is so hard for parents after reading this article. Advertisers use the characters as a way to kind of get the children to trust them and then they are automatically hooked and want the product. According to a parent “It is not that the parents aren’t interested in feeding their child well” she opines. “It is just too hard” (McConnel 1). The parent wants the federal government to set nutrition standards for the kinds of food that can and cannot be marketed to children (1). She states that little things like not placing candy and unhealthy food at a child’s eye level could help a lot

There are others who disagree with people like myself and don’t believe that food advertising should be banned. When the AAP, CSPI and other companies bashed food advertisers and recommended a ban on TV food ads others obviously had something to say about the issue. According to the article “AAP urges ban of TV food ads for children” the author states that “GMA and others dismissed CSPI’s suggestion in as early as June” (par.2) they said “It was a rehash of the same arguments made by the same people” (par.2). The FTC said that the AAP’s recommendation goes too far and it isn’t necessary for food advertising to be banned. I believe it is ridiculous for the FTC to say that these recommendations are going too far and are unnecessary. You never go beyond when you make recommendations that can only benefit our society and that’s what I believe these companies were doing. There are overwhelming statistics that prove the point that I am in favor of. According to Bill McConnel “Today 15% of children age 6 and older are overweight, more than double the proportion two decades ago” (1). These stats have only increased since the rise of advertisers targeting a large percentage of young people. Even worse now more than ever conditions that were once limited to adults are now hitting today’s