{"id":2805,"date":"2008-10-06T16:05:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T15:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/06\/the-junk-food-trap-an-international-epidemic\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T15:20:26","slug":"the-junk-food-trap-an-international-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/10\/06\/the-junk-food-trap-an-international-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Junk-Food Trap: An International Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/081013_mcdonalds.jpg\" title=\"081013_mcdonalds.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/081013_mcdonalds.jpg\" title=\"081013_mcdonalds.jpg\" alt=\"081013_mcdonalds.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I steadfastly write about one of my major pet peeves: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicauthority.com\/blog\/?p=937\">marketing junk food to children<\/a> who are extraordinarily susceptible to the health-hazardous messages companies download into their brains. It\u2019s not a purely American phenomenon. A new investigation by Consumers International (CI), a global federation of consumer organizations, reveals the extensive lengths to which food and soft-drink companies go when marketing unhealthy products to children in Asia Pacific. The report shows how major international brands like Coca-Cola, Kellogg\u2019s, KFC, McDonald\u2019s, PepsiCo and Nestle are using a variety of persuasive techniques to influence preteen and teenage consumers\u2019 food preferences. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicauthority.com\/blog\/?p=945\" target=\"_blank\">&gt; Continue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: USA<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=2\">McDonald\u2019s<\/a><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">, <\/span>Coca-Cola, Kellogg\u2019s, KFC, PepsiCo, Nestle <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicauthority.com\/blog\/?p=945\" target=\"_blank\">Organic Authority<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicauthority.com\/blog\/?p=945\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I steadfastly write about one of my major pet peeves: marketing junk food to children who are extraordinarily susceptible to the health-hazardous messages companies download into their brains. It\u2019s not a purely American phenomenon. A new investigation by Consumers International (CI), a global federation of consumer organizations, reveals the extensive lengths to which food and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[211,223,224,83,94,109],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-coca-cola","tag-kelloggs","tag-kfc","tag-mcdonalds","tag-nestle","tag-pepsico","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}