[quote name='mykevermin']How do you define junk food?
Singling out one industry is tough - it's not fair, but a step in the right direction. More food industries need to be held accountable for how they produce. It's not a matter of identifying them as "evil companies," but their products have detrimental health effects on people that are scientifically demonstrated. The "evil" part, if it has to exist, is the targeted marketing that seeks to increase consumption (and thus purchases).
Maybe ban McDonald's ads the way cigarette ads are banned? Reducing our concepts of "normal" size drinks is a step in the right direction, but it is a very incomplete step.[/QUOTE]
I'm good with this and would take it even further than tobacco ads by not allowing them at all. I'd also take away toys being bundled with children's meals.
Defining it is a little more difficult, but I think that we all have a common enough understanding of what "junk food" is. If you really want me to articulate it, I'd describe it as anything with artificial compounds to increase mass/volume and alter flavor. I'd make an exemption for nutritional supplements like vitamins and baby formula as well as preservatives. I know it's not exactly fleshed out, but this is on the fly.
Singling out one industry is tough - it's not fair, but a step in the right direction. More food industries need to be held accountable for how they produce. It's not a matter of identifying them as "evil companies," but their products have detrimental health effects on people that are scientifically demonstrated. The "evil" part, if it has to exist, is the targeted marketing that seeks to increase consumption (and thus purchases).
Maybe ban McDonald's ads the way cigarette ads are banned? Reducing our concepts of "normal" size drinks is a step in the right direction, but it is a very incomplete step.[/QUOTE]
I'm good with this and would take it even further than tobacco ads by not allowing them at all. I'd also take away toys being bundled with children's meals.
Defining it is a little more difficult, but I think that we all have a common enough understanding of what "junk food" is. If you really want me to articulate it, I'd describe it as anything with artificial compounds to increase mass/volume and alter flavor. I'd make an exemption for nutritional supplements like vitamins and baby formula as well as preservatives. I know it's not exactly fleshed out, but this is on the fly.