Wootan and Liodice

Wootan's claim is that major companies are influencing poor eating decisions through the use of advertising.  Wootan has come up with "Guidelines for Responsible Food Marketing to Children," to provide criteria for marketing food to children in a manner that does not undermine children's diets or harm their health.  According to Wootan, over the last 20 years the rates of obesity have doubled in children and tripled in teens.  He believes that parental authorit is undermined by wide discrepancies between what parents tell their children is healthful to eat and what marketing promotes as desirable to eat.  Robert Liodice believes the complete opposite of Wootan's claim. His basis is that as Americans, we have the fundamental right to free speech.  He is stunned that the CSPI would suggest restricting or modifying the free speech of perfectly legal enterprises as an approach to solve a problem.  He address three major flaws in the guidelines.  First, the information provided about obesity among our youth is bloated.  Second, by not promoting good eating rather than taking away those type of ads.  Third, it doesn't address the positive advantages of promoting proper eating over the last 30 years.  Personally, I agree with Liodice because these guidelines shouldn't be able to take away our rights that they are trying to.