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Food industry messaging pulled from Big Tobacco playbook

by: Pamela Mejia
posted on Friday, April 18, 2014

A new study from BMSG explores the tobacco industry’s use of personal choice messaging to shift blame for its products’ health harms onto consumers. Now Big Food is taking a page from tobacco’s well-worn playbook. How similar are the two industries and what does this mean for advocates?

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Food marketing to kids: Real progress requires better protections

by: Lori Dorfman
posted on Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Many companies have promised to improve their nutrition standards for the foods they market to kids, yet they still spend $5 million a day targeting children with foods they should avoid. If progress continues at this rate, we won‰’t see the right balance of food ads until 2033.

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