Food marketing


PHOTO GALLERY: Food packaging vs. food reality

German site PUNDO3000 documents the difference in what food products look like on their packaging, and what they look like in real life. Many of the products are weird and, well, German, but it’s a universal truth of advertising: what you see usually isn’t what you get.

Industry nutrition labelling does a fat lot of good

One only has to walk down the cereal isle of the supermarket to see the senselessness of the food labelling system that has been introduced by the food industry, writes Bridget Kelly.

Rudd’s backtracking in obesity policy is pathetic

News that Labor has wilted on its commitment to tackling junk food marketing after pressure from the food and advertising lobby makes a mockery of its repetitive commitment to “working families”, writes Melissa Sweet.