Friday, September 4, 2009

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  1. Sarah WaclawskiSeptember 5, 2009 at 1:43 PM

    I think the movie we watched last class "How we really get fat" was very interesting. It showed a good perspective of the food corporations aiming products towards children and how the children are now getting diseases usually only seen in adults. I think the food and health bureau should try again to change the age of certain food product comercials. Seeing as how between 2004 and now, obesity in children has increased so much.

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  2. StephSeptember 5, 2009 at 7:07 PM

    "How to get fat without really trying" showed us just how much our government is spending on the food industry as well as advertising for it. Where there's more food, there's more people, which is where our overpopulation comes from. Even after they spend billions on the surplus amount of food, we throw away and waste more of it than we should. I think the U.S. government should follow what other countries are doing and prevent advertising towards children. They should be protecting us, not trying to sell our children to big corporations who then blame the parents for not 'protecting their child.'

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  3. NateSeptember 7, 2009 at 6:16 PM

    After watching "How we get fat" it occured to me that we as U.S citizens are somewhat losing control of our own well-being and control of our government. The fathers of this country fought to make this government by the people and for the people. They did not concern themselves with primarily satisfying the needs of large corporations. So when I say that we are losing control I mean that the government needs to stop putting corporations needs before citizens' needs.

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  4. ChrisSeptember 7, 2009 at 7:58 PM

    I thought the most ridiculous and irritating part of the video "How to get fat without really trying" was the interview with one of the executives from a large food company who insisted that parents were ultimately in charge of the diet of their children. His claim was that despite the obvious targeting of kids in his company's ads for junk food, America's parents are to blame for the shockingly high level of child obesity in this country. I think it is immoral of the company to both market to young children and then to turn around and blame the parents. They can either market to kids, or they can blame parents for childhood obesity; they cannot do both. It is evident through food companies' use of cartoon characters that they're trying to capture the attention of very young viewers who will then petition their parents to buy a certain product. This type of marketing will certainly continue as long as the government fears the food lobby groups too much to try for new legislature.

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  5. 230AG699747September 8, 2009 at 7:48 PM

    I thought the movie "How to get fat without really trying" was interesting because it points out the federal government’s involvement in a choice that we thought was all our own. The way the federal government subsidizes many crops, primarily corn, but subsidizes very little fruits is very puzzling. People need fruits in their diet almost as much as they need vegetables so you would think the government subsidations would be almost equal. The crop that is the most highly subsidized is corn and most of the corn is not used for human consumption. A lot of it goes to feeding livestock which in turn we eventually eat. However, it takes a large amount of corn too feed one cow and from that cow a relatively small amount of food is gained especially compared to the amount of food the cow consumed.

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM

    I thought the movie "How to get fat without really trying" was good at showing that big companies with do almost anything to make money and sell there products. They even will do things that will hurt are people and hurt are country as a whole. A big way they do this is by targerting kids to buy there products. Most of these products are bad for you. This is a big reason why so many kids today are over weight

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  7. GJohnSeptember 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM

    All of these movies have been very informative with a lot of information about how depended we are on oil and how bad we use the resources around us. In the Movie "How to get fat without really trying" i was shocked to see how many companies targeted kids to get them or their parents to buy their product. I mean it is very clever advertising but all in all as lead to the obesity in kids today. Its terrible to see that most of these food aren't eaten by adults so they have to target younger generations in order to make their income

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