Why do we love junk food so much?
Tai Asks Why
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How Does Marketing Get People to Eat More Processed Foods?
The marketing is done through television, through social media and cartoons. Even though children don't have any money to buy products themselves, they do have the option to pester their parents to buy the product. There's a whole marketing effort towards teenagers that involve sports figures and music figures that makes it even more difficult. I've never seen an ad campaign for okra or bok choy. Krit is talking about what happens in the US but this is important because these types of things where the government helps food corporations produce food cheaply and market them to kids happen in other countries too.
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