Comments on: CSPI’s latest campaign: Topps marketing http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/02/cspis-latest-campaign-topps-marketing/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:38:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dan http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/02/cspis-latest-campaign-topps-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-12287 Dan Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:48:19 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/?p=1135#comment-12287 Correction: Topps isn't owned by Disney, but by a consortium headed by Eisner, who no longer works for Disney. Disney, in fact, has since Eisner left implemented policies banning this sort of thing. Correction: Topps isn’t owned by Disney, but by a consortium headed by Eisner, who no longer works for Disney. Disney, in fact, has since Eisner left implemented policies banning this sort of thing.

]]> By: tmana http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/02/cspis-latest-campaign-topps-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-12278 tmana Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:06:59 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/?p=1135#comment-12278 This is particularly interesting, as Nick Jonas is very "out" about his Type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes. While current management techniques make it much less dangerous than it used to be for people with diabetes to eat junk food, everything I see in both social networks and professional publications indicate that the most effective ways of managing chronic diseases all include strict attention to a healthy, as-close-to-the-earth-as-is-practical, diet. Then the candy design -- the theme of returning schoolchildren to the dependency of infancy -- is also disturbing, as it advocates the mind-numbing thoughtlessness associated with uncritically accepting whatever (expletives deleted) Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government throw at us... at face value. This is particularly interesting, as Nick Jonas is very “out” about his Type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes. While current management techniques make it much less dangerous than it used to be for people with diabetes to eat junk food, everything I see in both social networks and professional publications indicate that the most effective ways of managing chronic diseases all include strict attention to a healthy, as-close-to-the-earth-as-is-practical, diet.

Then the candy design — the theme of returning schoolchildren to the dependency of infancy — is also disturbing, as it advocates the mind-numbing thoughtlessness associated with uncritically accepting whatever (expletives deleted) Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government throw at us… at face value.

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