Comments on: Kellogg Won't Market Sugary Cereal To Kids

Cereal/Snack-Maker Agrees To Stop Advertising Too-Sugary Products To Children

[t-hole2]

If your child is obese, it is your fault.

[srk46-2009]

This garbage all started with the seatbelts...we should use them for our protection and safety. So now everyone wears their seatbelt we have been programed that it is good for us.
From seatbelts the special interest groups moved to cigarettes. Smoking isn't good for us. Now that we have been programed that a smoker is the worst kind of person and we shoouldn't be around that person, employee that person, interact with that group of people. The special interest groups have moved to food. Companies that make cereal, cookies, ice cream etc are at fault they are making us fat. Those companies need to change. People, WAKE UP, it will not be long before only blond haired, blue eyed, a certain height and weight of people will be accepted. Check out your history books and see who is reminds you of.
Our U.S.A. is becoming the U.S.S.R. We are longer the home of the free, our freedoms are being taken away, one by one, if I as a adult want a bowl of cereal and a cigarette afterwards I SHOULD HAVE THAT CHOICE. Wake up before we have no more freedoms left.

[d_goddard]

So... a pressure group hired some lawyers, who threatened Kellogg's with a lawsuit unless they changed their products.

Presumably, they feel that people should not be allowed to freely make their own choices, and to accept the consequences (good or bad) of those actions. Instead, they feel that people should be regulated... coerced by force and threats to make the "right" decisions.

If you feel you should be able to live your life however you want, so long as you are not directly harming someone else, there's good news. Thousands of people who feel the same way are working to be free of these endless small attacks on our freedoms.
freestateproject.org

[srk46-2009]

Kelloggs being forced to end it's marketing is just another sign of what is actually happening in the U.S.. We have become a nation of helpless people that need to be told what to do, how to do it, when we can do it, etc. The special interest groups (i.e CSPI, and the list could go on) have decided that we as the American people are too stupid to think for ourselves and make good and right decisions for ourselves, that we need to be told. This my friends is communism in it's new form.

[jshmks]

Maybe they need to limit the nicotine in cigarettes, because adults can't control themselves.

Another pointless arguement. *yawn*

[rohink-2009]

Have you all lost your minds? Do you read these articles, or you do just assume and react? Nothing is being banned except marketing to an age group that is incabable of making reasonable decisions on their own. There will still be pleny of sugary cereals for everyone who wants them. It will just be less tantrums for parents when they say "No, that's not healthy." Don't be ignorant- this *** isn't healthy, and shouldn't be touted as acceptabe for children to eat. That does not mean you can't buy it if you want to.
Posted by imaok1

No, I have not lost my mind and yes I did read the article. I am 50 years old and when I was a child, cereal commercials and toy commercials and candy commercials and snack commercials were marketed to children. Buy, back then, parents were parents. So who has lost their mind? The person that can't control their own lives they need "protection" from the "powers that be" You're the fool.

[imaok1]

Have you all lost your minds? Do you read these articles, or you do just assume and react? Nothing is being banned except marketing to an age group that is incabable of making reasonable decisions on their own. There will still be pleny of sugary cereals for everyone who wants them. It will just be less tantrums for parents when they say "No, that's not healthy." Don't be ignorant- this *** isn't healthy, and shouldn't be touted as acceptabe for children to eat. That does not mean you can't buy it if you want to.

[ralan40]

This is a joke. I remember eating smacks when it was called Sugar Smacks. I was never over weight because my parents threw me outside to play. My 3 and 5 year olds see the advertising and if we don't like it, we tell them no. End of story. Our society is a joke. No one ever has to take responsibility for their actions. If you think the cereal is bad for you child, don't buy it. Don't make me suffer because of your incompetence as a parent.
Posted by avanburen at 12:55 PM : Jun 14, 2007

Bravo, avanburen. This probably also sums up a lot of other issues as well.

[rohink-2009]

So, parents can't parent anymore because they are too busy. People no longer have any self control or responsibility for their actions. So we need to ban everything. Thank God for Big Government law makers and lawsuits by lawyers or we might have a free society and people would be forced to suffer the consequences of their actions.

[hypnotoad72]

williamfold - I see and don't disagree with your POV, but the whole situation isn't so neat as you make it out to be. Psychological response notwithstanding, how many people have time to raise families because America's cost of living makes spending time at home impossible due to having to spend more time at some job? (And there are other points of view that complicate matters further, not all of them "liberal" ones. I do fathom both sides of the issue...)

I will agree; in grocery stores at 10PM, the parents caving in to screaming obese children who want that candy is not a good sight to behold...