[trian1]

Male mascots are beefing up, yet there is no outcry for realistic body images of bipedal oranges and huskys.

Truth, justice and the citrus way: Why the world’s mascots are beefing up

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-yo...eefing-up/

[General Stalin]

The Washington Post calls this news? Pfft

[Dragonstone]

Quote:

The Florida Department of Citrus paid Marvel Comics upward of $1 million for the Captain Citrus update, just a few years after the first version of the character was introduced -- waaaay back in 2011. The idea, it seems, is to make orange juice seem cool and healthy to children, i.e. the future of America.

That they paid more than a million bucks for this should be the main story.

The story also suggests concerns about sugar for the drop in citrus consumption the last few years. I'm not seeing a major shift away from sugar consumption elsewhere.....