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Targeting Kids with Food Ads - with Dr. DeAnna Nara

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Food marketers are zeroing in on our kids with ads for food that will make them sick.

This week on Green Street Patti and Doug talk about New York’s plastic packaging reduction bill, how fish in rivers and lakes in Michigan are not fit for consumption, and how the new generation of “quasi-ceramic” pans may contain toxic chemicals. Then Dr. DeAnna Nara of the Center for Science in the Public Interest talks about food marketing and how kids are being targeted from all directions with ads for unhealthy food. 

Targeting Kids With Food Ads - with Dr. DeAnna Nara

Links from the Interview:

Center for Science in the Public Interest: https://www.cspinet.org/


Links from the News Learn about New York State's Plastic Packaging Reduction bill: https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/ny-packaging-passes-senate-2025#


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The Politics of Food - with Dr. Marion Nestle

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Updated: Jun 13, 2025

Why does our government allow food companies to push unhealthy food, and what can we do about it?

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about startup companies pushing recycling of spent nuclear fuel to power next generation power plants, and the Supreme Court's decision to allow giant multinational mining companies to take over sacred land belonging to Apache tribes. Then nutritionist and author Dr. Marion Nestle talks about our food supply, what's wrong with it, and how campaign reform is absolutely required if we're ever going to fix it. 


The Politics of Food with Dr. Marion Nestle

Links from the Interview

Marion Nestle's blog: https://www.foodpolitics.com/


Links from the News

Startup companies are pushing to recycle spent nuclear fuel: https://e360.yale.edu/features/nuclear-waste-recycling

Supreme Court OK's big mining operations on sacred Apache land:



 
 
 

Marketing Food to Kids - with Dr. Charlene Elliot

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Food for kids is a $130 billion dollar business. No wonder our kids are being targeted by food marketers!


This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the role of nitrous oxide in climate change (it’s a greenhouse gas that’s 300 times more powerful than CO2 ), and how the world is beginning to realize that plastic is a toxic substance, just in time for the UN worldwide plastic treaty talks in South Korea. Then Dr. Charlene Elliot from the University of Calgary talks about the many ways in which food is marketed to children in every stage of their lives, and how equipping them with tools to understand how they are being targeted may be more effective than government regulation. 


Marketing Food to Kids with Dr. Charlene Elliot

Photo by Debby Herold

Charlene Elliott is the Canada Research Chair in Food Marketing and Children’s Health at the University of Calgary. She is Professor of Communication, jointly appointed with the Faculty of Kinesiology. Charlene’s program of research focuses on food marketing, promotion and policy (with a particular emphasis on foods targeted at children), sensory communication and regulation, and taste/taste cultures. She has published extensively in these areas and is also the editor of several books, including How Canadians Communicate about Food: Promotion, Consumption and Controversy (2016) and Communication in Question: Communication in Question: Competing Perspectives on Controversial Issues in Communication Studies, 2nd Edition (2013).


Links from the Interview

Charlene Elliot's page at the University of Calgary: https://grad.ucalgary.ca/future-students/supervisor/charlene-elliott



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