{"id":88453,"date":"2024-07-17T12:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T02:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=88453"},"modified":"2024-07-17T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T02:56:27","slug":"calls-for-junk-food-advertising-to-be-removed-from-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=88453","title":{"rendered":"Calls for junk food advertising to be removed from public transport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A peak cancer body is calling on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/Victoria\">Victorian<\/a>&nbsp;government to take a stand against junk food advertising on public transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ufeffCancer Council Victoria wants the five new train stations slated to open across&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/Melbourne\">Melbourne&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp;CBD next year to be free from junk food advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unhealthy food and drink advertising is currently allowed on all public transport across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-69.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-69.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-69-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-69-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Commuter train approaching a train station in Melbourne Victoria Australia&nbsp;(Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data supplied by the peak cancer body, about 66 per cent of parents are in favour of removing \ufeffunhealthy food and drink advertising on public transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 80 per cent wanted government action to remove the advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Being surrounded by marketing of unhealthy food and sugary drinks is good for the processed food industry&#8217;s profits, but bad for our children&#8217;s health,&#8221; Cancer Council Victoria&#8217;s head of obesity programs Jane Martin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A peak cancer body is calling on the&nbsp;Victorian&nbsp;government to take a stand against junk food advertising on public transport. \ufeffCancer Council Victoria wants the five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":70120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9770,47],"tags":[11579,993,8],"class_list":["post-88453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-trains-melbourne","category-rail-news","tag-cancer-council-victoria","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88459,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88453\/revisions\/88459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}