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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) We've been covering the soft drink industry lately, publishing articles on
soda pop marketing to children that seem so bizarre, many people are simply unable to
believe them. So for this article, I've quoted numerous sources to allow everyone to
verify the "unbelievable" facts of this story for themselves.
This story concerns the fact that the PepsiCo company began branding plastic baby
bottles with soft drink logos in the 1990's, hoping that parents would begin feeding their
infants and babies soft drinks
such as Pepsi and Mountain Dew.
Once again, many people find this very difficult to believe and they think we're just
making this up. But of course, we're not: Check out the February 1, 1996 issue of Pediatrics
for Parents which contains the following published report:
Soft drink manufacturers are now putting their logos on baby bottles. The logos of many
carbonated drinks (Pepsi, diet and
regular; 7 Up: Dr. Pepper; Orange Slice: and Mountain Dew), non-carbonated drinks
(Kool-Aid), and juice drinks (Mott's;
Welch's; Very Fine; V8; and Perrier) can be seen on plastic baby bottles.
Health experts are concerned over this trend. They fear that parents will be encouraged to give
their babies inappropriate beverages
in their baby bottles. In a study of 314 California mothers, almost a third admitted to
giving their baby's either soft drinks or Kool-Aid. Over half had baby bottles with soda, Kool-Aid, or juice logos.
You can see this citation on Highbeam.com: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-197...
A similar article appears in a
October 27, 1994 article of the Austin America-Statesman, entitled Logos send
bad message about soda baby bottles.
The Q&A article begins:
Question: I recently noticed at the grocery store baby bottles that have been made to
look like soft drink bottles. The bottles carry the name of a soda and its logo. I know
babies can't read, but I'm concerned that somehow this encourages a habit that isn't good
for youngsters.
Answer: Your feelings on these bottles are right on target. Those baby bottles with the
carbonated beverage logos might seem cute to some people, but the decorated bottles...
Link: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we...
The soda pop industry, by the
way, has always promoted soda pop for children in magazine ads. Here's an ad from Canada
Dry (a popular soda beverage a couple of generations ago) which says, The Special
Sparkle is Canada Dry while showing a child
chugging a bottle of soda: http://www.magazine-ads.com/SOD1275.php
Here's a partial image of a Tab soda ad featuring a young mom drinking a bottle of soda while her
small child chugs one with her: http://www.magazine-ads.com/SOD1247.php
This Canada Dry ad from 1966 pushes their grapefruit flavored soda pop for
cheerleaders: http://www.magazine-ads.com/SOD1270.php
You can see all sorts of bizarre ads from Coca-Cola on that same website
(Magazine-Ads.com) including this one, showing a crowd of young male swimmers all trying
to woo a sexy (in 1963, anyway) lifeguard: http://www.magazine-ads.com/COK1327.php
For many years, the Coca-Cola company also borrowed the image of Santa Claus, depicting
him drinking bottles of coke: http://www.magazine-ads.com/COK1354.php
This Pepsi ad from 1970 shows young boys drinking the beverage, with a goofy "Pepsi's
got a lot to give" headline, to boot: http://www.magazine-ads.com/PEP1370.php
We have additional ads in our Museum of Badvertising, including an ad showing
Seven-Up being chugged by an infant and an ad for Camel cigarettes featuring conventional
doctors who recommend smoking. Ads for Camel cigarettes, by the way, were featured for
years in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Here's the link: http://www.naturalnews.com/index-Ba...
Some people insist that the soda companies
never marketed their products to children. Many of the internet naysayers who dispute
these stories are no doubt working for the P.R. companies of the soda industry, by the
way. It's the same fraud pulled off by
promoters of high-fructose corn syrup
who try to discredit everybody who writes the truth about HFCS. It's no coincidence that the
dishonest soda industry uses HFCS from the dishonest corn syrup industry as its main
ingredient...
At the same time, JAMA editors probably don't want to be reminded that their medical
journal used to push cigarettes, either. But history is worth learning, even if it's
hard to believe, because those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
And yes, it is a historical fact that the soda pop industry ran decades of ads promoting
sodas for children. Anyone who tries to deny that is a fraud. (11.28.2010) http://www.naturalnews.com/z030550_soda_pop_advertising.html
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