Cartoons Support Organic?

"When it comes to pushing spinach, Popeye has some competition.

A whole crew of new and old children's characters is getting into the green and healthy business, with companies licensing their images to sell everything from baby carrots, clementines and grapes to organic cereal and pastas designed specifically for children.

Nickelodeon's SpongeBob Square-Pants currently adorns bags of spinach, organic frozen edamame and more recently white and yellow plums. His fellow Nickelodeon cartoon character, Dora the Explorer is hawking pears, apples and baby carrots. And the letter of the day is "O" for organic for "Sesame Street's" Elmo, Cookie Monster and Big Bird, whose toothless smiles grace boxes of organic alphabet pasta, cereal, crackers and cookies."

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I know that when I was younger, I wasn't influenced much by television, but I guess some kids are? Hopefully, this will do some good.