We have regulations in place to protect our children’s wellbeing from swimming pools to buying cigarettes. Why do we allow food and drink manufacturers to target children to sell sugary drinks and junk food?

Comic artist Toby Morris has shown in comic form how families are surrounded by an avalanche of unhealthy food marketing everywhere we look. This advertising and sponsorship influences the food children want to eat and what they pester parents to buy. This is having a detrimental impact on whanau and contributing to an unhealthy diet.