The Myth Of Choice Video Analysis

Do you ever feel tricked, or duped? Many of us feel that way when we talk about marketing to kids and most importantly, food ads. While many of us don’t think much of food ads and marketing to kids, they are affecting the lives of youths everyday. Starting with online advertising, leading into manipulating the minds of teens, and finally, releasing them into a world of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and more. All of this starts with ads. Unfortunately, ads are everywhere, on TV, on the front of school textbooks, on online websites, even embedded into video games. According to the video, “ The Myth of Choice” , kids see about 500 ads every year. Marketers get the attention of youth through vibrant colors, and cartoon characters, like Tony the tiger and Ronald Mcdonald. These ads trigger kids to eat more calories and consume larger amounts of sugar and fat than necessary. To sum it up, when kids see the ads and the cartoon characters, they start eating the advertised sugary food, resulting in mass amounts of calories, fat, and sugar. …show more content…
In the video, “ The Myth of Choice”, it states that fast food is much more than just cheap food thrown together for customers to eat. In fact, engineers design the food to target the biology of a child’s mind, making it addictive on eating it. This results in kids coming back for their food over and over again, causing diabetes, high blood pressure, and other health issues. To elaborate, the french fries that you might call harmless, has a complex structure of engineering and science built to your very own