Analysis Of If You Pitch It They Will Eat By David Barboza

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In the article “ If You Pitch It, They Will Eat” by David Barboza, Barboza explains how major food companies advertise to children because they know kids are easy to sell products to. The article is about why fast food companies market to children and how can be harmful to them. Fast food companies are everywhere children are. They advertise in cartoons children watch and sell their food in schools. The main argument is these fast food companies are wrong to sell to kids, and the kids are seeing the effect of eating all the fast food shown to them. Barboza wants a change to happen because these are our children and they cannot grow up with obesity and diabetes.

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