By Stephen Woodford, CEO, Advertising Association 2021-02-05T09:59:00+00:00
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Industry remains committed to playing a full and enthusiastic role in encouraging healthy lifestyles, while also contributing to the economic growth
Last week, an opinion piece in The Grocer argued why ‘we need to ban unhealthy food ads on social media’. That title summed up the one-dimensional way this argument is often framed. Food is either healthy or unhealthy and there is little discussion of what foods might be covered by a ban or what forms of media and communications would be banned for little effect on levels of obesity.