Saturday, April 6, 2013

Candy Company (Joke) Obesity Ad

We’ve all seen that silly Coca-Cola obesity ad, right? Well, how about having another sugar-oriented company make an obesity-related ad, but from the other side? And it must be a candy company, because sugar is being demonized lately, and candy is non-essential foodstuffs, so it’s really a matter of survival for them to deflect the anti-obesity message.

So here’s how this would work: rather than saying obesity is bad and they’re trying to help, they would hit back against the nanny state politicians and agenda scientists trying to demonize sugar and limit access to sugary stuff. So what they would do is make an ad that mentions this trend to demonize sugar and they’d mention the obesity issue, but then they’d say that people who are trying to limit children’s sugar intake are really just “trying to steal candy from children.” Then they’d show a line of young children (like from age 2 to 8, each holding one of their candy bars or candy products, and some politician in a suit would walk past them and take the candy away, snatching it right out of their hands. And then all the little kids would start crying, and the announcer would say: “See? What did I tell you? They’re just bullying children! What kind of a person would steal candy from a child? It’s tantamount to child abuse! Why, shame on them, those child abusers! These children will never get over this traumatic experience! And the stress from this trauma will make them compulsively overeat! So it’s not candy that causes obesity, but rather, it’s bullies who want to take candy from children who are to blame! But this is just the tip of the iceberg, because now they will require lifelong psychiatric care for their trauma of having their candy taken away as young children, powerless to stop this injustice. And this will cost many times what the obesity crisis alone will cost us. So remember, when you come between a child and their candy, it’s like opening a Pandora’s box of trouble. (Paid for by Sweet Tooth America PAC.)”

See? So then they could brainwash everyone to think only a child abuser would try to limit a child’s candy intake, and so anytime anyone brought up obesity, people would just bully them for wanting to make children miserable, etc. And candy would flow like, um, wine? No, kids can’t drink wine because of the bullying government taking alcoholic beverages away from children. That’s right: kids can’t even drink anymore! What’s this country coming to anyway? (Just kidding…)