So even something like this is now not politically correct?
Posted on 02/15/2020 2:26:19 AM PST by John W
Unilever, one of the oldest multinational consumer goods companies, pledged this week to stop advertising ice cream to children. By the end of this year, the company will stop marketing and advertising foods and beverages to children under the age of 12 in television and print, and for children under 13 via social media channels.
Unilever may not leap to mind when it comes to frozen dairy confections, but it should. The company owns premium brands Ben & Jerry’s and Talenti, workhorse ice creams Breyers, Klondike and Good Humor, and specialty bars and ice cream treat brands Magnum, Cornetto, Viennetta, Choc Ice and others.
“The World Health Organization names childhood obesity as one of the most serious public health issues of the 21st century. And it’s a key reason why Unilever is committing to new principles on marketing and advertising foods and beverages to children,” the company said in a statement.
The company says it will not run ads on television and other media where children under 12 represent more than 25 percent of the audience. It will not promote ice cream products in schools or children’s films. In addition, Unilever said it won’t employ celebrities or social media influencers or use licensed cartoon characters in marketing that appeals primarily to kids under 12.
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The world’s top athletes never ate ice cream as children /s
The World Health Organization names childhood obesity as one of the most serious public health issues of the 21st century.
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I miss the good old days when the biggest threat was starvation /s
It won’t make any difference to a kid. Are parents now to withhold a weekly allowance because their children may happen upon an ice cream truck down the street or worse, the grandparents who like to “spoil” their grandkids?
More for me!
Note to snowflakes etc: Get off the social media and get yourself a job.
tick off another culturally related all-American item - ice cream
replaced by kelp cones
And then they came for the kids ice cream. We should have stopped them at cigarettes.
Next up, parents should not be allowed to pay children for doing chores around the house because that is learning capitalism.
“Next up, parents should not be allowed to pay children for doing chores around the house because...”
Beacuse that money should be considered taxable income, redistributable to “less fortunate” adults. /s
So even something like this is now not politically correct?
Hey I have an idea lets cut off our noses in spite of our faces
Absurd.
They are fine with supporting all kinds of deviant lifestyles, but not ice cream for kids!
Hell, just go ahead on file for bankruptcy.
Meanwhile: Mr Zin rant: “oh, right ..like ice cream hasn’t been around for 150 freaking years? Right..it’s the ice cream company’s fault? Good God. You’re worried about your kids’ health? Get rid of every single piece of electronics. Get their fat ass to go outside and play basketball, ride bikes, go exploring, get an old tire and go rolling in it! Geeez...get their face out of a screen!”
Hey, I have a question. Not asking for any particular reason other than going off on a tangent.
What was the name of the "Multinational consumer goods corporation" that Walt/Heisenberg did business with in Breaking Bad? The one that Lydia worked for before she met her fate in the final episode?
Sorry for the tangent, just asking.
We ate all kinds of stuff when I was a kid, but I rarely saw any fat kids in school. I still rarely do, 50 years later. Maybe it is my suburban neighborhood?
The Left, eaten up with envy and guilt, wants to enjoy the normal, everyday things that the Right already enjoys without guilt. They want to process their desires through a lens of political correctness so that they can shed the guilt—and even feel superior about—what we do as a matter of course every day.
So they declare ice cream advertising and consumption bad for kids. But...they will take theirs to some local, politically-correct, “hand-crafted, artisan creamery” so they can ENJOY ICE CREAM there!
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