Obese blamed for the world's ills

BBC News ^ | May 16, 2008 | BBC News

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

I’m overweight, so sue me.

[Jeff Chandler]

The second biggest culprit: HUNGER!

[traumer]

Raise food prices !

[tioga]

Let’s sacrifice algore to the global warming gods........

[mikelets456]

Methane gas....OMG, what other money making scams can people come up with? I’m sure this research group got paid millions to research this junk!!!!

[stand watie]

LOL!!!

free dixie,sw

[sauropod]

This was reported in the “journal” Lancet - you know, the one that reported (fraudulently) that 600,000 Iraqis are dead because of our actions in OIF/OEF.

[Proud2BeRight]

Ted Kennedy comes to mind.

[VeniVidiVici]

They could say the same thing about immigrants. If the immigrants didn’t migrate they’d be stuck in their home country consuming less food, less fuel and they wouldn’t be obese.

[Vaquero]

Noblesse obese.

[Gorzaloon]

Obese people are contributing to the world food crisis and climate change, experts say.

Anything published in the UK can be considered the death rattle of a lost society, and dismissed with contempt.

But in the spirit of good sportsmanship, I will help their article, by summarizing the thought:

"Put fat people on the trains to the Smokers' Camps", is that it? Do I win?

[MortMan]

I thought it was the smokers!?! /sarc

[ProfoundMan]

Ping-a-roo Eric. I suspect this will come in handy for you and your excellent nanny state ping list.

[popdonnelly]

“Obese people are contributing to the world food crisis and climate change, experts say.”

I thought everybody, and particularly the United States, was responsible for global warming.

[Billthedrill]

One wonders what the ideal citizen might look like to these folks. Let’s see - skinny, doesn’t move around, doesn’t eat anything, doesn’t use any fossil fuel for entertainment, doesn’t heat his or her house, doesn’t exhale deadly carbon dioxide - I know! A corpse.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Wait. I thought that poor people and minorities were more likely to be obese.

So poor people and minorities cause climate change?

[mysterio]

If obese people want to see the future, look at what has been done to smokers for 20 years. The machine created to torture smokers will now be used on you.

[ChiMark]

Marxism on the march!

[maine-iac7]

prepared foods, HFCS, junk fed to kids in school lunches, etc, contribute to obesity -

first, go after the chemical companies that load our foods with poisons -

I ‘do’ organic as much as possible, eat NOTHING with HFCS -or things I can't pronounce in them.

I grow veggies and buy from local farmers and otherwise try to eat foods like I grew up with on a little farm in the forests of Maine -

Food manufacturers are intent on one thing: MONEY (and the FDA is in bed with them) - and that includes lots of chemicals to prolong shelf-life = which reduces the consumers “shelf-life”...

Bottom line: we need to take charge of our life/health. We are the only ones, ultimately, who give a rats rump about us.