SXSW 2023

How Fast Food Companies Target the Next Generation

Description:

Through strategic advertising and marketing campaigns, fast food companies are influencing the way young children eat, with a disproportionate impact on communities of color. This panel will discuss the effects of fast food marketing on children's dietary choices and policy solutions.

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Takeaways

  1. Strategies that fast food companies use to target and entice children.
  2. The effect that fast food marketing has on children's health and its disproportionate effect on historically marginalized communities.
  3. Policy interventions that can curb fast food marketing and help support children's access to healthy food choices.

Speakers

  • Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, New York University
  • Dr. Sonya Grier, Professor Department of Marketing, American University

Organizer

Emily Payne, Author, Food Tank: The Think Tank for Food

Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Panel
  • Track: Food
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate
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