Susan Linn Quotations

For over thirty years, public health advocates have urged companies to stop marketing junk food to children. Even as rates of childhood obesity have soared, neither Viacom nor Kellogg has listened. We can no longer stand by as our children's health is sacrificed for corporate profits.

For over 30 years, public health advocates have urged companies to stop marketing junk food to children. Even as rates of childhood obesity have soared, neither Viacom nor Kellogg has listened.

We have an ongoing concern that parents and babies are being exploited by the media and market industries. Parents have a right to honest information, and they aren't getting it from these baby-video companies.

It's irresponsible of George Lucas to OK the marketing around this PG-13 movie to young children, ... Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood.

this is not free money. It's buying advertising. The school is selling advertising. They are selling the hearts and minds of children.

There is simply no moral, ethical or social justification for marketing junk food to children. Children have a right to grow up, and parents have the right to raise them, without being undermined by commercial interests.

If marketing to children affects their food choices, then it's time to stop marketing to them.

A major reason was to compete with Disney and Baby Einstein and promote a new brand of Sesame toys.

It's exploiting all of their vulnerabilities: wanting to fit in, wanting to be important. It's promoting the idea that a girl's relationship with a company makes her cool.

What McDonald's doesn't mention is kids can't exercise off all the junk food they're eating,