Not sure I agree with having a scoring system + blanket bans in areas. Where is the incentive for producers to try to make their products fit within the scoring system if advertising of it is banned regardless?
The fact they’ve had to add the blanket bans makes me think they don’t trust their own scoring system. I might be wrong but if true that’s pretty tragic before it’s even implemented.
FlatHoperator on
You know something is fundamentally wrong with your criteria for determining junk food when you have to carve out an exemption for raw potatoes lmfao
StupidMastiff on
I’m all for advertising bans on things that are or can be harmful. It’s so much better to regulate corporations on what they can do rather than ban people from doing certain things.
samsung-65-smart-4k on
It would be more worthwhile and useful to ban all junk food advertisement. Thats not going to happen, and the proposed plans will have little impact.
Obesity will continue to be normal.
Worldly_Table_5092 on
We should copy japan and just have a tax on fat people. 4.5% obesity rate vs our glorious 28.7%
AtillaThePundit on
Lol the list is basically everything that isn’t a vegetable or just plain meat 😂
Meanwhile the actual cause is that people get paid fuck all for working 40hrs a week and they’re both cash and time poor so they can’t afford to cook and don’t have time to cook so they buy what is cheap and filling . Add in the evolutionary desire to eat sugar and fat and the dopamine hit you get from eating a cheeseburger or whatever and you get an obese population .
No home economics classes in school, for 20 years means parents who can’t cook unable to teach kids to cook and who think oven chips and some
Richmond sausages are a home cooked meal
The sugar tax was bad enough, now everything is laced with rotten sweeteners that taste like shit and I’m some cases trigger hyperactivity or give you cancer .
Lack of public access sports facilities and funding , the lure of sitting in front of a screen instead of playing outside , poor cycling infrastructure means sedentary lifestyles coupled with all of the above and you get fat kids.
Minimum-Geologist-58 on
A really interesting example of the effect of this (if you’re a marketing aficionado/saddo). Is that you’ll see and hear adverts everywhere at the moment for Pepsi Max, comparing it to Coke, the regular stuff.
Pepsi haven’t sold their regular product in the UK for ages, so it’s a new market segment for them, and this law means Coke can’t really respond. So they’re trying to attack into the sugared soft drink market with a diet product, which is really quite interesting!
greylord123 on
>It also includes fruit juice, smoothies and energy drinks.
>Savoury snacks: Crisps mainly, but this also extends to crackers, rice cakes, tortilla chips and Bombay mix. There are exemptions for flavoured nuts, dried fruit and jerky
So fresh fruit juice is bad for you but if you dry the fruit its good for you.
So using a bit of logic here am I right in thinking it’s the water in the fruit that’s bad for you?
Mba1956 on
Driving out sugar by adding more artificial sweeteners to our diet which are proven to be worse for our gut bacteria balance and our health.
jodrellbank_pants on
They did the something similar for supermarket, banning junk food and sweets in the end of the isles now they just, put high fat content food their instead
ice-lollies on
RIP Christmas food or Marks & Spencer’s food adverts.
I do hate the Haribo adverts so I’m sort of relieved I’ll never have to deal with them again.
Still doesn’t tell me about Just Eat though. They’re going to get round it by making it about food delivery aren’t they? Supermarkets as well?
Edit: there’s no way these could be replaced by vape adverts is there? Are vapes allowed to be advertised?
chase___it on
i get why most of these are on the list but yoghurt? Also the fact that they need to specify that raw potatoes are fine is hilarious, i don’t think i’ve ever seen an ad for a raw potato in my life
Dude4001 on
I can’t believe some poor people were forced to spend all that time “analysing” food to decide whether it’s junky or not, when the junkiness solely depends on the quantity and lifestyle of the consumer. What a fucking folly.
GhostMotley on
This is a stupid list and is why a ‘junk food’ ban is completely impractical.
It would cover lemonade, squash, smoothies, crackers, porridge oats, ice cream, protein bars…
Zerodriven on
Next thing we need to do is straight up ban gambling adverts at all times.
AnotherKTa on
If junk food advertising is so bad, why is it still being allowed for over a year?
I get that you can’t just bring this in overnight, but waiting until October 2025 seems rather questionable.
OriginalZumbie on
>More than one in five children in England are overweight or obese by the time they start primary school
I dont see how banning adverts is going to fix this. A parent should be able to say ‘NO’ to a 5 year old.
Also I genuially dont get what adverts are going to be on TV anymore. Streaming sites, Shops and Cleaning products?
Sea-Television2470 on
Truly amazing the amount of things the new Labour government could be focusing on and they chose this.
Hollywood-is-DOA on
So they have band protein bars, which is hard to get 20 grams of protein from anything that costs less than £3. Porridge its oats form and not powder is really healthy, probiotics that are brilliant for your gut biome.
Bending those things from advertising isn’t the best thing to do, to get children not to be over weight.
nettie_r on
I find it strange whenever this comes up on reddit that banning advertising is framed as restriction on free choice.
Banning advertising doesn’t mean you are also banned from eating junk food should anyone wish it, the same way that banning tobacco advertising doesn’t mean adults can’t still have a cigarette. For all the talk of personal responsiblity, the corporations responsible for the massive growth of UPFs spend millions on advertising because it works. Maybe, just maybe, we could help people with those better choices by removing constant advertising. Maybe we could stop our children being manipulated by constant marketing of these foods to them.
I am still free as an adult to go to Tesco and stuff myself with UPF should I wish to, whether they advertise to me or not. Arguably I am making this choice in a more free way if I am doing so without marketing influence? Why are we all so quick to defend the rights of these mega billion pound organisations to manipulate us?
shinneui on
I think people would eat healthier if fresh food was the cheaper option.
unixuser011 on
Great. Now do gambling ads during every fucking game of football. Also, stop sponsoring literly every fucking team
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Not sure I agree with having a scoring system + blanket bans in areas. Where is the incentive for producers to try to make their products fit within the scoring system if advertising of it is banned regardless?
The fact they’ve had to add the blanket bans makes me think they don’t trust their own scoring system. I might be wrong but if true that’s pretty tragic before it’s even implemented.
You know something is fundamentally wrong with your criteria for determining junk food when you have to carve out an exemption for raw potatoes lmfao
I’m all for advertising bans on things that are or can be harmful. It’s so much better to regulate corporations on what they can do rather than ban people from doing certain things.
It would be more worthwhile and useful to ban all junk food advertisement. Thats not going to happen, and the proposed plans will have little impact.
Obesity will continue to be normal.
We should copy japan and just have a tax on fat people. 4.5% obesity rate vs our glorious 28.7%
Lol the list is basically everything that isn’t a vegetable or just plain meat 😂
Meanwhile the actual cause is that people get paid fuck all for working 40hrs a week and they’re both cash and time poor so they can’t afford to cook and don’t have time to cook so they buy what is cheap and filling . Add in the evolutionary desire to eat sugar and fat and the dopamine hit you get from eating a cheeseburger or whatever and you get an obese population .
No home economics classes in school, for 20 years means parents who can’t cook unable to teach kids to cook and who think oven chips and some
Richmond sausages are a home cooked meal
The sugar tax was bad enough, now everything is laced with rotten sweeteners that taste like shit and I’m some cases trigger hyperactivity or give you cancer .
Lack of public access sports facilities and funding , the lure of sitting in front of a screen instead of playing outside , poor cycling infrastructure means sedentary lifestyles coupled with all of the above and you get fat kids.
A really interesting example of the effect of this (if you’re a marketing aficionado/saddo). Is that you’ll see and hear adverts everywhere at the moment for Pepsi Max, comparing it to Coke, the regular stuff.
Pepsi haven’t sold their regular product in the UK for ages, so it’s a new market segment for them, and this law means Coke can’t really respond. So they’re trying to attack into the sugared soft drink market with a diet product, which is really quite interesting!
>It also includes fruit juice, smoothies and energy drinks.
>Savoury snacks: Crisps mainly, but this also extends to crackers, rice cakes, tortilla chips and Bombay mix. There are exemptions for flavoured nuts, dried fruit and jerky
So fresh fruit juice is bad for you but if you dry the fruit its good for you.
So using a bit of logic here am I right in thinking it’s the water in the fruit that’s bad for you?
Driving out sugar by adding more artificial sweeteners to our diet which are proven to be worse for our gut bacteria balance and our health.
They did the something similar for supermarket, banning junk food and sweets in the end of the isles now they just, put high fat content food their instead
RIP Christmas food or Marks & Spencer’s food adverts.
I do hate the Haribo adverts so I’m sort of relieved I’ll never have to deal with them again.
Still doesn’t tell me about Just Eat though. They’re going to get round it by making it about food delivery aren’t they? Supermarkets as well?
Edit: there’s no way these could be replaced by vape adverts is there? Are vapes allowed to be advertised?
i get why most of these are on the list but yoghurt? Also the fact that they need to specify that raw potatoes are fine is hilarious, i don’t think i’ve ever seen an ad for a raw potato in my life
I can’t believe some poor people were forced to spend all that time “analysing” food to decide whether it’s junky or not, when the junkiness solely depends on the quantity and lifestyle of the consumer. What a fucking folly.
This is a stupid list and is why a ‘junk food’ ban is completely impractical.
It would cover lemonade, squash, smoothies, crackers, porridge oats, ice cream, protein bars…
Next thing we need to do is straight up ban gambling adverts at all times.
If junk food advertising is so bad, why is it still being allowed for over a year?
I get that you can’t just bring this in overnight, but waiting until October 2025 seems rather questionable.
>More than one in five children in England are overweight or obese by the time they start primary school
I dont see how banning adverts is going to fix this. A parent should be able to say ‘NO’ to a 5 year old.
Also I genuially dont get what adverts are going to be on TV anymore. Streaming sites, Shops and Cleaning products?
Truly amazing the amount of things the new Labour government could be focusing on and they chose this.
So they have band protein bars, which is hard to get 20 grams of protein from anything that costs less than £3. Porridge its oats form and not powder is really healthy, probiotics that are brilliant for your gut biome.
Bending those things from advertising isn’t the best thing to do, to get children not to be over weight.
I find it strange whenever this comes up on reddit that banning advertising is framed as restriction on free choice.
Banning advertising doesn’t mean you are also banned from eating junk food should anyone wish it, the same way that banning tobacco advertising doesn’t mean adults can’t still have a cigarette. For all the talk of personal responsiblity, the corporations responsible for the massive growth of UPFs spend millions on advertising because it works. Maybe, just maybe, we could help people with those better choices by removing constant advertising. Maybe we could stop our children being manipulated by constant marketing of these foods to them.
I am still free as an adult to go to Tesco and stuff myself with UPF should I wish to, whether they advertise to me or not. Arguably I am making this choice in a more free way if I am doing so without marketing influence? Why are we all so quick to defend the rights of these mega billion pound organisations to manipulate us?
I think people would eat healthier if fresh food was the cheaper option.
Great. Now do gambling ads during every fucking game of football. Also, stop sponsoring literly every fucking team