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Should cereal companies be forced to stop advertising to children?

Should cereal mascots be banned?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • No

    Votes: 28 84.8%

  • It depends

    Votes: 4 12.1%
  • Total voters
    33
Mason66 said:
Unfortunately kids have minds of their own. They will choose what they like and don't like.

My son does not choose his cereal by any advertising or cartoon character, it is not all that prevelant in Mexico, he chooses it by the taste.
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To be totally honest, the only thing my younger son has shown a distaste for was spinach.
 
SPC said:
We have an absurd President.
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You dodge the question. You have no credible links to prove your position that Obama forced cereal companies to stop advertising to children. You have no such proof, you heard it on radio (right-wing extremist radio is not a credible source despite what you believe), and you still haven't shown any kind of proof that Obama actually did that. After 6 pages, you still didn't show your proof that Obama did that.
It's equivalent to claiming Glenn Beck wants to kill all US citizens, without any proof.
 
This entire debate is ABSOLUTELY REDICULOUS! Parents decide what their child can eat, whether it's Toucan Sam's Fruit Loops or Ronald McDonald's burgers or food with no characters associated. Parents need to learn to take action and control what and how much their children eat at any signs of their child becoming unhealthy. Like many issues we debate, the only problem here is people are flat out irresponsible!
 
tessaesque said:
Even if he's wrong about Obama, there have been research studies that conclude that children pick cerealshttp://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2820/How-Kids-Choose-Cereal
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Stop right there. Parents/guardians pick what actually gets purchased- or at least they're supposed to.

If you're not a good enough parent to resist a kid who wants the one with a bird on it, you're not good enough to resist a kid who wants the one with frosting.

We don't need more government meddling here. We need some parental responsibility.
 
extrastrictman said:
This entire debate is ABSOLUTELY REDICULOUS! Parents decide what their child can eat, whether it's Toucan Sam's Fruit Loops or Ronald McDonald's burgers or food with no characters associated. Parents need to learn to take action and control what and how much their children eat at any signs of their child becoming unhealthy. Like many issues we debate, the only problem here is people are flat out irresponsible!
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The entire topic was ridiculous and completely bogus. SPC just made it up to stir the anti-Obama crowd
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Chef Boyardee straight out lies saying 'it's good for you' when it's packed with more sodium per serving than a load of bacon.
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Can't I just drink more water to take care of the sodium issue?

And while possible, it's kinda hard to drink too much water. I just don't understand how salt is such a big problem.
 
Red Flag said:
Can't I just drink more water to take care of the sodium issue?

And while possible, it's kinda hard to drink too much water. I just don't understand how salt is such a big problem.
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Study: Kids Getting Too Much Sodium

Children consume ridiculously high amounts of salt - a bag of chips can be filled with vitamin and mineral goodness but I'd still classify it as unhealthy because of how the ingredient in excess (salt for chips and boyardee) can affect ones self later in life.

Just because stuff (like cereal and whatever else) has a lot of vitamins intentionally crammed into it does not offset the fact that it's high in fat, sodium or sugar and other things that wreak havoc on the system. they can make twinkies the equivalent of a children's vitamin but that still wouldn't make it 'healthy'

They need ot at least be honest about things.
 
I'm pretty sick of government sticking its collective nose into our grocery baskets, frankly. Some of the favorite children's cereal, mascots and all, are some of the healthiest cereals... Cheerios, Rice Crispies, Capt Crunch, min-shredded wheats. The government needs to butt the hell out.

That said, my children were never allowed to choose their own cereal. I gave them a list of cereals that had my approval (based on nutritional value and low sugar content), and the child who went shopping with me that week (we had 5 kids, each week one of them grocery-shopped with me and had the responsibility of planning one meal for the next week) got to choose the cereal for the week. Worked wonders, and none of my kids had a weight problem. Well, not until they grew up, had kids of their own and discovered the joy of their own middle-age spread! :lol:
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
To be totally honest, the only thing my younger son has shown a distaste for was spinach.
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Surprisingly enough, I actually liked spinach when I was a kid, but it could also have to do with the fact that I was a big fan of Popeye at the time too.
 
SPC said:
Surprisingly enough, I actually liked spinach when I was a kid, but it could also have to do with the fact that I was a big fan of Popeye at the time too.
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You too?

I couldn't get enough of the stuff - my Mom would buy cans of it just for me.
 
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