Are fatties lepers who cause global warming?
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Should fat people be blamed for conributing to global warming?
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
- George Bernard Shaw
We all know that drinking alcohol is both big and clever but it does sometime provoke a wee bit of violence, which doesn’t matter as long as you can fight, but it ultimately leads to weight problems. Think darts player.
Fat people can’t catch a break these days in a society that prizes thinness above all. We make the obese the butt of our jokes, berate them for running up health care costs and treat them like modern-day lepers. And we’re even blaming them for global warming. A new study estimates that America’s cars burn a billion gallons of extra petrol a year, just to lug around the extra pounds of their lardy bodies.
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Another study estimates that commercial planes burn another 350 million gallons of fuel for the same reason. People will apparently seize on any ammunition, however tenuous, to scapegoat the fat and get them to change their dissolute ways. Subjecting the obese to a non-stop diet of criticism is not just cruel – it’s also counter-productive. A researcher recently asked 3,000 fat people how they responded to stigmatisation and discrimination. Almost everyone said they ate more. Perhaps they should jog more, mind you look at what happened to Jim Fixx.
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5 Comments
global warming on August 19th, 2007
global warming is becoming such a obvious problem that someone somewhere other than Al Gore needs to step up to help drive the bus!
shaun sayers on May 28th, 2008
fat people produce more methane too. fact. unless this can be harnessed in some way like clean-burn coal fired electricity generators, it is our children that will be counting the cost
on the other hand they feel the cold less than skinnies and hence their consumption of domestic energy resources in this respect may cancel out the methane. But then they eat fewer uncooked meals like salads. Surely some sort of “methane trading” system can be devised?
shaun sayers on May 28th, 2008
fat people produce more methane too. fact. unless this can be harnessed in some way like clean-burn coal fired electricity generators, it is our children that will be counting the cost
on the other hand they feel the cold less than skinnies and hence their consumption of domestic energy resources in this respect may cancel out the methane. But then they eat fewer uncooked meals like salads. Surely some sort of “methane trading” system can be devised?
instant personalloan on August 7th, 2009
I think that companies need to step in more and start helping our enviroment.
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global warming on August 19th, 2007
global warming is becoming such a obvious problem that someone somewhere other than Al Gore needs to step up to help drive the bus!