Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills

Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by fucking_tragedy on Monday May 09, 2016 @09:38AM (#11659713)

The market forces companies to peddle garbage to children who generally lack the capacity to make a healthy informed decision in the face of multimillion dollar campaigns designed to get them to consume sugary cereal?

> He said everyone tells them to do so, but once it's on the shelves it does not sell. People want less sugar in the abstract. But they love sugar in their shopping carts, in the mornings, and in their mouths.

This sounds a little too just-so.

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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by GordonS on Monday May 09, 2016 @10:25AM (#11660053)

> peddle garbage to children who generally lack the capacity to make a healthy informed decision

I don't know many kids that do the shopping :)

It's parents that choose the sugary breakfast cereals for their children. I think many have the capacity to make a healthy, informed decision, but for some reason they do not. Marketing is likely at least part of the reason.

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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by fucking_tragedy on Monday May 09, 2016 @09:01PM (#11664536)

How many cereal advertisements do you see marketing towards parents vs their children?

Companies know they influence purchasing decisions through the manipulation of children.

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