2. Week 6
Any Essay related questions?
Group Presentations: Obesity and Fast Food.
Use the stakeholder analysis to look at the impact of fast
food (e.g. McDonalds) on each stakeholder group. Should
the sale/marketing of fast food be regulated/restricted? If so
why? If not, why not?
Theoretical Framework: Stakeholder Theory
Review Stakeholder and Stakeholder perspectives.
3. Marketing: Junk Food and Obesity
Growing criticism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K3F_53Sn34
Young Children as stakeholders.
Regulation of junk food advertising to Children.
Who is responsible: Corporations or individuals?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfL5ZNd8ro
These 7 companies are signatories to the Australian Quick Service
Restaurant Industry Initiative for Responsible Advertising and Marketing
to Children under 14 years.
These companies—McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut, Hungry Jack’s,
Oporto, Red Rooster and Chicken Treat—have committed to adopt on-
pack nutrition labelling and to display nutritional information clearly on
the their websites.
Self-regulation.
4. Are kids affected by advertising?
What do kids say:
https://www.ted.com/talks/birke_baehr_what_s_wrong_with_our_food_s
ystem#t-126208
Is this part of a bigger problem?
https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver
5. Things to discuss
Banning of Junk Food ads: e.g. Disney
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-18336478
Advertising healthy food.
Junk Food tax? Should a special tax be applied to "junk" food and
applied to offset the costs of healthier foods?
Cheaper to buy Coke and Maccas!