Sunday, April 15, 2012
Regulation Of Children's Food Advertising
When reading over Wootan’s and Liodice’s argument regarding
government regulation, you can see that they both make great arguments. Liodice
talks about how the United States is a free country allowing everyone to have
the right to express their thoughts and feelings. This allows us to be able to express anything
they want. Therefore he believes their
should not be a constraint on what people advertise because then that would go
against their freedom of speech. In
Wootan’s argument, she insists that there should be a regulation in
advertisements since most of the advertisements are targeted toward children.
Instead, she believes that advertisement should have more nutritious food or
even changing the packaging to smaller portions. Mainly, her argument is about obesity among
children and how she believes we can fight against it. Though both of these arguments are valid,
Wootan’s argument was the best because she was able to effectively give her argument
by giving facts to support it but also give alternatives to solve the problem.
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I agree with Wootan's argument that advertisements should promote healthier food choices for children. I do agree that as Americans we have the right to freedom of speech and it can be difficult to persuade people to conform to certain ideas. But I think since childhood obesity has been on a steady rise in the U.S. we should be cautious about the advertisements children are exposed to. Children are very impressionable and advertisements have have a strong influence over how our thoughts. It is a fine line to walk between freedom and speech and trying to convince people to be mindful when dealing with advertising.
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