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It's possible that the ad was intended to show its customers how nutritious Nutella is, by categorizing it with other breakfast meals. The ad showed kids eating Nutella, and portrayed the kids running and dancing afterwards.
Nutella =/= Cereal/PB&J.
On the flip side, I can also see how the ad really isn't portraying Nutella as a healthy meal. It says nothing about it being healthy or whatnot. The advertisement just subtly played with people's psyche by kind of throwing ideas out there, hoping that they would stick.
Either way, I think this lawsuit is good for the people.
It not only serves companies like this to eliminate a line of ambiguity in order to play with the consumer's minds, but it also serves as an example for other companies notifying them, "Hey, don't try to fuck with us. We'll sue your ass"
As ridiculous as everyone else wants to see this event as, lawsuits are one of the many powers we have in fighting against corporation mistreatment.
Don't hate the game, the rules are there for balance.
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The first one is probably not even a real case and compare the french MJ case with the MJ Conrad Murray case please and talk again.. 
There might be some weird cases in other countries too, but not these kind of cases. They happen nowhere else in the world. And there are tons of them..
Not all of them get so much attention, but seriously the US even makes TV shows about how hilarious and bad the law is. Its seriously ridiculous and while i dont know if its really that bad in every state you cant deny the law and justice system is seriously flawed in some states...
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I think that people are going at this all wrong.
I mean, a case can certainly be made that some of the ads are mildly deceptive. I personally am of the opinion that if YOU get deceived by these ads, YOU are a moron and you deserve all the consequences of your stupidity - and if you feed crazy amount of nutella to your children, well perhaps you're unfit to be a parent - because bad nutrition is one of the many ways you can screw up your child, and if you mess up there, wtf is wrong with you?
On the other hand, if the government says that Nutella's ads are illegal, then why would one lady and her lawyers receive all that money? She's a moron and her lawyers just saw an opportunity to scam a company out of some money.
It's so sad that nowadays people are no longer responsible for their failings. This woman's bad parenting was because of Nutella... Lol x_x?
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On April 29 2012 07:06 Djzapz wrote:
I think that people are going at this all wrong.
I mean, a case can certainly be made that some of the ads are mildly deceptive. I personally am of the opinion that if YOU get deceived by these ads, YOU are a moron and you deserve all the consequences of your stupidity - and if you feed crazy amount of nutella to your children, well perhaps you're unfit to be a parent - because bad nutrition is one of the many ways you can screw up your child, and if you mess up there, wtf is wrong with you?
On the other hand, if the government says that Nutella's ads are illegal, then why would one lady and her lawyers receive all that money? She's a moron and her lawyers just saw an opportunity to scam a company out of some money.
It's so sad that nowadays people are no longer responsible for their failings. This woman's bad parenting was because of Nutella... Lol x_x?
We don't know what the government has to say about it -- this wasn't a Federal Trade Commission case -- and if the suit was just a scam, then Ferrero should have fought it instead of settling (which involved not just the payment, but changing the messages in their TV advertisements, jar labels, and website).
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On April 29 2012 07:06 Djzapz wrote:
I think that people are going at this all wrong.
I mean, a case can certainly be made that some of the ads are mildly deceptive. I personally am of the opinion that if YOU get deceived by these ads, YOU are a moron and you deserve all the consequences of your stupidity - and if you feed crazy amount of nutella to your children, well perhaps you're unfit to be a parent - because bad nutrition is one of the many ways you can screw up your child, and if you mess up there, wtf is wrong with you?
On the other hand, if the government says that Nutella's ads are illegal, then why would one lady and her lawyers receive all that money? She's a moron and her lawyers just saw an opportunity to scam a company out of some money.
It's so sad that nowadays people are no longer responsible for their failings. This woman's bad parenting was because of Nutella... Lol x_x?
Your ignorance almost makes me see this whole case in a different light. The government and the laws are there to protect the MORONS and weak people.. Thats what its there for.
If this indeed is in any way deceives people the lawsuit is legit. But i very much doubt thats the case..
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sick, i've bought 5 jars of nutella in the past 4 years, free $20!!!
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Give her her money, then force her to spend the money learning how to read labels and learning how to raise children.
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On April 29 2012 07:28 jobber123rd wrote:
We don't know what the government has to say about it -- this wasn't a Federal Trade Commission case -- and if the suit was just a scam, then Ferrero should have fought it instead of settling (which involved not just the payment, but changing the messages in their TV advertisements, jar labels, and website).
fighting it means that that there would be more publicity around the fact that nutella isn't healthy. Why they dont want to incorrectly advertise that, they still dont want to announce to the whole world that it is unhealthy, or possibly how unhealthy it is.
I think that they did settle for abit too much...or should have tried to fight it to stop future incidents
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On April 29 2012 07:28 jobber123rd wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 07:06 Djzapz wrote:
I think that people are going at this all wrong.
I mean, a case can certainly be made that some of the ads are mildly deceptive. I personally am of the opinion that if YOU get deceived by these ads, YOU are a moron and you deserve all the consequences of your stupidity - and if you feed crazy amount of nutella to your children, well perhaps you're unfit to be a parent - because bad nutrition is one of the many ways you can screw up your child, and if you mess up there, wtf is wrong with you?
On the other hand, if the government says that Nutella's ads are illegal, then why would one lady and her lawyers receive all that money? She's a moron and her lawyers just saw an opportunity to scam a company out of some money.
It's so sad that nowadays people are no longer responsible for their failings. This woman's bad parenting was because of Nutella... Lol x_x? We don't know what the government has to say about it -- this wasn't a Federal Trade Commission case -- and if the suit was just a scam, then Ferrero should have fought it instead of settling (which involved not just the payment, but changing the messages in their TV advertisements, jar labels, and website).
It was probably cheaper to just settle than to fight it. Anyone who believes a chocolate paste is healthy has some obvious problems. Abuse of the system imho.
What is disturbing though is the amount of attention and outcry given to these things and the lack of attention and outcry for actual problems (like say, police abuse, CISPA, Government agents requiring mass slaughter of pigs on a private farm in WI, etc. etc.).
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I don't think that Ferrero will actually care because of losing those 3.5m dollars. Seriously.
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I think it's about time that we stop letting people label everything they sell as nutritious and healthy. It really sickens me how everywhere in the supermarket that you go something is deceptively labeled so as to make people believe it is something they ought to eat. Poptarts, "good source of calcium!" Nutella's advertisement is just a small part of that bigger problem.
Forgive me if I don't cry my heart out for poor nutella, whose false advertising was okay since only stupid people would believe it.
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I'm not gonna lie
The way Nutelle ads show here, they really hint/imply that their product is great for health.
It's only when I actually read the nutritional values that I realized that it was as bad as a chocolate bar.
So obviously, people should know it's not healthy... but their ad really is a misleading one..
(This is my observation even when I disregard the ridiculous lawsuit. I don't think she should have won money but definitely that the company should change their marketing direction because it is false.)
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