{Might as well feed your kids Twinkies} Children’s Cereals are Sugar Bombs
How ’bout a couple of cookies for breakfast, son? No? How ’bout a Twinkie? Oh, you’d rather have some cereal?
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Some Brut Executives Need to be Slapped
“Some men just need to be slapped” says Brut. “Yup. And if the idiots that wrote and signed off on
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Disney Eats Your Daughters
I’ve mentioned some of the reasons for our distaste for Disney’s kids movies (and other ‘blockbusters’ as well) before, so
Read moreDear Michael Brune, or, Thoughts on a Sierra Club Mailing
I received this huge envelope of junk from Michael Brune, of the Sierra Club. And it kind of hacked me
Read moreTwo-fer Tuesday: DIY Baby Shoes and a Daddy Blogger Lets It Rip
For this week’s Two-fer Tuesday, I’ve got two extremely different posts. The first one is very cool and practical –
Read moreHide Your Kids: The Social Media Marketers are Coming
One of my pet peeves is the amount and type of advertising targeting children. Specifically, the ads promoting products that
Read moreFTC finds that 44 major food and beverage marketers spent $1.6 billion to promote their products to children under 12 and adolescents ages 12 to 17 in the United States in 2006.
Image via WikipediaFrom the Federal Trade Commission‘s website: The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a study on
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