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Monday, July 14, 2008
Are we slobs at the beach?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
St. Simons Island resident Tina McElroy Ansa urges Georgians who travel to the state coast to admire its beauty to please not trash up the place.
“Beer and soda cans are thrown from boats and wash up on the shore, along with disposable diapers. Cigarette butts and Styrofoam containers are left amid the granite rocks that line the otherwise pristine beaches.
” All we want to remind us of your visit are your good memories and some footprints in the sand,” she writes.
Are Georgians becoming the coastal version of the Ugly Americans?
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Regulate junk-food marketing to kids
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Susan Linn, an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, believes we need federal standards regulating how food companies market their products to children. Self regulation has not worked, she writes.
“Ads for junk food can still be seen during children’s television programming,” she writes. “This summer’s blockbuster films like “Iron Man” and “The Incredible Hulk” are promoting Burger King Kid Meals to children as young as 3.”
But Jeffrey Axelrad, a lecturer of law at George Washington University says the federal government should focus instead on food safety. And he argues that the fight against childhood obesity has turned into a “propaganda campaign”
What do you think?
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