{"id":3067,"date":"2012-11-08T02:16:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T07:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2012-11-08T02:16:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T07:16:37","slug":"kelloggs-a-survey-of-false-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/3067\/","title":{"rendered":"Kellogg’s – A Survey of False Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that I’m pretty anti-advertising. Many people think I’m strange for taping over company logos in my house, getting rid of our TV due to ads, and avoiding internet ads with browser addons… but that’s a topic for another blog.<\/p>\n

One thing that really annoys me is sneaky, devious, and misleading advertising. It’s everywhere. It’s like propaganda – it takes logical shortcuts in order to convince you of something.<\/p>\n

I saw this a few days ago:<\/p>\n

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Yay, a healthy snack! No corn syrup! Being a food shopper who tends to avoid corn syrup, this would convince me to buy. But then I read the ingredients:<\/p>\n

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So the filling, which is like half the bar, is mostly corn syrup. Nice.<\/p>\n

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While it IS made with real fruit, it has more corn syrup and sugar than real fruit.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I am pretty sure the size of Nutri-Grain bars has decreased. This has happened to a lot of grocery products – companies keep their prices the same but quietly reduce the content. This is called the “grocery shrink ray<\/a>” and it’s everywhere<\/a>. This also enables more misleading advertising:<\/p>\n

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It’s healthier because you’re just not eating very much. People like me just make up for it by eating four of the bars, which of course Kellogg’s loves because I just ate half the box.<\/p>\n

“Well, so what, Ben… they’re not healthy. Just don’t buy them!” Right, lesson learned. What I object to is the misleading advertising. They should have a picture of corn syrup on the front instead of strawberries… this just strengthens my resolve to question any advertising, label, or claim on any and every product.<\/p>\n

Here’s another blog on the same topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ridiculous…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that I’m pretty anti-advertising. Many people think I’m strange for taping over company logos in my house, getting rid of our TV due to ads, and avoiding internet ads with browser addons… but that’s a topic for another blog. One thing that really annoys me is sneaky, devious, and misleading advertising. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}