Petition to Stop the Junk Food Madness

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Please sign and pass along - Thanks, Joe & Shari

 

 

Thank you in advance for forwarding this petition on to others!

 

We're fighting mad! Right now there are thousands of

multi-million-dollar

companies advertising junk food to kids barely old enough to

talk. It's one

thing to advertise junk food to adults who can make intelligent

choices

based upon their education, knowledge, and experiences. When you

go

after 4-year-old kids to make a buck, and you bombard them with

junk food

ads on TV, programming them to reach for a candy bar when they

are hungry

and a pop when they are thirsty, that's just wrong! What these

companies are

trying to do is create a customer for life! The proof that this

works so

well is that we are a nation of junk food addicts! The addicted

ones

include a lot of people in the Health Care Industry who see the

results of

this lopsided programming every day!

 

We are supporting a nonprofit campaign called " Take a Fruit

Break, " which

aims to create and air 30-second TV commercials all over North

America that

make eating fruit just as seductive as eating junk food! We have

tried

reaching out to corporations and the media for support for this

campaign;

so far the main feedback that we get from them is fear. Fear of

losing their

sponsors, fear of the bottom line, fear of a loss of revenues. On

the other

side we are getting an overwhelming positive response from

parents all over

North America and the UK. So we realize that this is going to

have to be a

grass-roots campaign and we are now reaching out to people

through the

Internet. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE THIS CAMPAIGN REACH CRITICAL

MASS.

 

Here's how we can work together to help improve the lives of

today's kids:

 

1.) Sign this petition by adding your name, city and

state/province to the

bottom of this list. If you are the 200th person to add your

name, please

forward this email back to info . This

petition will be

presented to Corporate Executives in the Food and Media

Industries to show

them that it is good business to promote healthy food products to

children.

What we're telling them with this petition is that people are

concerned

about the way they are doing business.

 

2.) Visit http://www.takeafruitbreak.com to learn more about what

you can do

to help.

 

3.) Forward this email on to your email contacts!

 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.

 

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PETITION TO STOP THE JUNK FOOD MADNESS - Below is a list of

people concerned

about the amount of junk food being advertised to children.

 

1 Johanna Talifero, Duncan, BC

2 Gerald Talifero, Duncan, BC

3 Anne Schmidt, Seattle, WA

4 Annette St-Pierre, Stevenson, WA

5 Shari Viger, Everett, WA

6 Joe Viger, Everett WA

7 Jacques Viger, Everett WA

8 Taimi Viger, Everett WA