Stop Corporate Abuse Archives - Shaping Youth

Fed Up With Food Marketing to Kids? Nosh On Food MythBusters Film

September 21, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Sept. 21, 2013 Tired of the $2 billion/year endless barrage of hard sell food advertising hawking toxic crud to children to turn them into life long consumers? You’re about to get some ammo in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition & Wellness Tagged With: #MomsNotLovinIt, Amy-Jussel, Anna Lappe, brand-ambassadors, Burger King, clowning around with kids health, corporate accountability, corporate ethics, Counter-marketing, DigitalAds.org, fast food marketing, Fast Food Nation, Feeding Frenzy, food marketing to kids, Food Mythbusters, Food Myths, food policy, Food Politics, FoodMyths, Healthy-Kids, junk food ads, junk food in schools, junk food marketing, Kids food marketing, Kids health, kids nutrition, Moms Not Lovin It, nag factor, nutrition education, obesity prevention, pester power, preventive health, processed foods, public health, secret documents sugar industry, Stop Corporate Abuse, Talking to Kids About Junk Food

The Tooth Fairy Is Not A Brand. Parents…Arise!

July 22, 2013 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Aug. 6, 2013 Update! Honored to be accurately quoted in this pithy parenting prose by Heidi Stevens in The Chicago Tribune's thrilled to see all the parenting pushback on Twitter that CCFC put … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism Tagged With: ADA, Amy-Jussel, baby teeth, backdoor branding, brandwashing, CCFC, child exploitation, childhood rites of passage, children’s icons, Commercialization of Childhood, Consumerism, corporate accountability, corporate profiteering, dentists, direct marketing to kids, Disney Dia de los Muertos, Disney-Princesses, Equestria Girls, family narratives, Gender Portrayal, Hasbro, imagination, imaginative play, Mattel, media siege, media-literacy, My Little Pony rebranding, Official Real Tooth Fairy Dentist, parenting peeves, parents under siege, Pinkification, Pop culture impact on kids, princess culture, Save the Tooth Fairy, sexploitation, sexualization of children, Stop Corporate Abuse, storytelling, The Real Tooth Fairies, The Tooth Fairy, toy industry complicity, trademarking a holiday, trust breach, unethical marketing, Vapid Values

Marketing Tactics Undermine Parent Authority: Moms Not Lovin It.org

July 8, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

July 8, 2013 Update: Join the #MomsNotLovinIt Twitter chat about McDonalds and other fast food giants specifically targeting kids of color, and the new study in Journal of American Medical Assn on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition & Wellness Tagged With: #MomsNotLovinIt, corporate ethics, diabetes prevention, fast food marketing, food industry, food marketing kids, Hispanic obesity, junk food in schools, junk-food, Kids health, kids nutrition, Latino Outreach, McDonalds, Moms Not Lovin It, profit over public health, Stop Corporate Abuse, targeting kids of color, youth-marketing

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