The “Climate and Resilience” bill did not retain the proposal of the Citizen’s Climate Convention to protect children from junk food by banning unhealthy advertising. A huge disappointment for the French Federation of Diabetics.
- The text entitled “Climate and resilience” includes only half of the 149 proposals of the Citizen’s Climate Convention, intended to reduce France’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030.
- Among the measures abandoned: the one aimed at banning advertisements for “junk food” aimed at children.
As with many other proposals of the Citizen’s Climate Convention, the desire to ban all advertising aimed at children for products prohibited by the National Health and Nutrition Program has not been retained in the bill “Climate and Resilience”, presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday February 10.
Childhood overweight and obesity have been multiplied by 6
A huge disappointment for many health associations, including the French Federation of Diabetics. She “deeply regrets the absence of provision in favor of a better supervision of food marketing, even though this measure had been acclaimed by the Citizen’s Convention for the Climate”.
Confectionery, cereals… Of all the advertising spots aimed at children and concerning food recently analyzed by UFC-Que Choisir, 88% of them concern products of very poor nutritional quality, located on Nutri- Score D or E. In addition, childhood overweight and obesity have multiplied by 6 since the 1960s in France. “An alarming figure, while Covid-19 has demonstrated the immense vulnerability of people with obesity or chronic diseases (type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, etc.),” continues the French Federation of Diabetics.
“Should we then believe that only economic interests count?”
“Should we then believe that only economic interests, ardently defended by agri-food manufacturers and private television channels at the cost of the health of our children, count?”, asks the association of patients, dismayed.
The French Federation of Diabetics therefore asks the legislator to correct the situation:
– at best, by banning from programs aimed at young people on television screens and the Internet, advertisements for Nutri-score D and E food and drinks;
– at the very least, by better informing the consumer. The idea is to impose on all food advertisements the display of nutritional labeling in the form of Nutri-score, with strict display conditions (during the entire advertising spot and of an appropriate size in particular) .
The text titled “Climate and Resilience” takes up only half of the 149 proposals of the Citizen’s Climate Convention, intended to reduce France’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. Its 65 articles should be examined by the deputies from the end of March.
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