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Marion Nestle - Marion Nestle is professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and the author of Food Politics, Safe Food, What to Eat, and Pet Food Politics. More

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She is the author of three prize-winning books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (revised edition, 2007), Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003), and What to Eat (2006). Her most recent book is Feed Your Pet Right: The Authoritative Guide to Feeding Your Dog and Cat. She writes the Food Matters column for The San Francisco Chronicle and blogs almost daily at Food Politics.
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A Crack-Down on Food Ads Aimed at Kids

By Marion Nestle

Nov 14 2009, 9:31 AM ET Comment



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Thanks to Margo Wootan of CSPI for sending me the text of a speech by David Vladeck, the new director of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection, in which he discusses his agency's priorities. One of these is marketing to children.

And about time too. The last time the FTC wanted to restrict advertising to kids was in 1978. Then, Congress ridiculed the agency (What? Restrict free speech? Horrors!), and promptly passed a law preventing the FTC from taking action.  The head of the FTC, Mike Pertschuk, was fired and that was that (see Giant Killers, for his version of what happened).

Well, times have changed. Kids are a lot fatter. Trying to stop relentless food marketing aimed at children now seems like a pretty good idea. Can't wait!

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