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Private food advertising and public nutrition education
Canadians are bombarded with over $700 million in commercial food advertising annually urging us to drink caffeine-laden soft drinks, alcohol, greasy burgers, sugary cereal and candy, salty processed foods, and foods high in saturated and trans fats. We and our children pay for this advertising — the cost of which is included in the price of food — pay again in the GST [HST in Nfld., N.B., and N.S.] charged for many of these types of foods, and pay, ultimately, with our health. Meanwhile, the federal government spends a fraction of one percent of this amount on disseminating balanced, independently produced nutrition education messages.> Read Questions & Responses |
