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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Should Fast Food advert be banned?

Will it solve the problem?

If the government were to ban fast food advertisement shown on TV, they have to ban alot of other things as well. For example

1) beer advertisement in the newspaper/cinema shows
2) Fast Food advert on the LRT
2) eventually they have to ban fast food restaurant as well. If the government's reason to ban advertisement is because Kid's will be drawn to it, So are they trying to say that Kids should NOT walk in the streets where there are fast food restaurant around, because they would be drawn to it as well?

I think the more logical way to do it is to still allows the advertisement to be on-air, but they should add on the advertisement with some nutritional facts, then i guess kid's wouldn't get too addicted to the fast food, for fear of being obese, and some other kinds of disorder.

*My Justification*

It will have alot of side effect when the government impose this ban ruling. Even on cigarette packs(I don't smoke), there IS a warning which says "AMARAN OLEH KERAJAAN MALAYSIA. MEROKOK MERBAHAYAKAN KESIHATAN" (Warning from the Malaysian Government, Smoking kills is dangerous to your health)

Now, If such a BIG BIG warning on cigarette packs CANNOT stop people from buying cigarettes, plus the fact that according to the health minister, the number of young people being addicted to smoking is INCREASING day by day, would banning fast food advertisement help in reducing children's health problem with regards to eating too much fast food? *think*

It's like wrapping the burger with a warning wrapper/nutritional fact which says "The burger you are going to eat now contains ***KG G of fats and calories", or " Please refrain from eating me because i can cause obesity", but still, kids(adults alike) will unwrap the wrapper, and continue eating the burger, as though the warning is not there.

if like that, we can ban cigarette sales, liquor sales, and all things that is bad .....etc etc, until all of us will be living on vegetables and soya everyday.

What i am trying to say is that banning advertisement itself WILL NOT cause the problem to cease. The best way is to cut off the root/source of it.

It's the same when people buy cigarettes. The warning is written ON the pack itself, and yet people still ignore the warning and smoke, even though the words "MERBAHAYAKAN KESIHATAN" (Dangerous to health) is written there.

It's all in the mind, and once you are determine to do something, you can and will do it.

And the effects/consequences of smoking is far worse then the effect of having too much fast food

*Disclaimer: The above is the humble opinion of me. No reference made to whatever parties mentioned*