More on Advertising Junk Food to Kids

I recently posted a blog showing what television channels are most commonly used to advertise junk food to kids. Here’s a couple other pictures illustrating some fascinating facts about such advertising.
First, the advertisements don’t seem to place as much emphasis on food as they do for adult advertisements:

fast food marketing tactics

And why is that? Because they emphasize toys!:

fast food marketing tactics2

It’s time that we ban toys in happy meals and the use of cartoon characters and toys to advertise junk food to children.
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