Check out this article from BBC news entitled Overweight ‘top worlds hungry’.
Congratulations Fat People!
Looks like you’ve managed to keep all the good food for yourselves.
While the number of people in the world that do not get enough food to eat has been declining slowly (currently around 800 million), the number of overweight/obese people has skyrocketed in recent decades to top the nice round number of over ONE BILLION!! That’s billion with a “B”.
Obesity is the norm globally and under-nutrition, while still important in a few countries and in targeted populations in many others, is no longer the dominant disease.”
Well how about that? You’d think that because there is so much food to go around (so much so that the well-fed throws away close to half of it) that the numbers of hungry people would be going down fast. But you’d be wrong. I mean look at how fat these kids are:
…and this kid:
Oops… actually one photo features a distended stomach due to malnutrition, and one features… well, fat. Do you know which one is which? You get a twinkie if you get it correct.
the “burden of obesity”, with its related illnesses, [is] also shifting from the rich to the poor…”
WHOA! Does that sound familiar? (see fact #4)
Speaking at an Australian conference, US professor Barry Popkin urged governments to begin to develop better strategies to combat the problem.
food prices could be used to manipulate people’s diets and tilt them towards healthier options.”
His ideas include putting a tax on foods that are highly dense in empty calories (like soda), and to provide more subsides for fruit and vegetable production (I assume he’s talking about the vegetables that are grown for direct human consumption and not for processing or for cattle feed) so that there would no longer be such a huge difference in price between healthy food and crap.
At first read of this idea, I was very skeptical. An analogy would be to look at how higher fuel prices affect how much people drive. Some people welcome higher gas prices because they hope that people will begin to drive less. However, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence that this is happening, despite prices going up 300% in the last 10 years in the U.S. (it’s still over twice as expensive in Europe).
Also, unfortunately, raising the prices of cheep food can be seen as discrimination against the poor. On the other hand, foods like bananas, apples, beans, lentils, pasta, rice, and potatoes are pretty dirt cheap. Compared to things like Hot Pockets and frozen pizzas, there’s not much of an excuse for poor people eating junk like this when there are healthier options they can afford. Of course if we’re talking about ‘prepared’ food, then yes, the junk is probably cheaper. Obviously getting five Totinos pizzas for five dollars is less expensive than making a pizza from scratch.
The professor acknowledges that a ”fat tax” on junk food would probably not be acceptable. He suggests that we could reduce farm subsides on crops that will result in the production of those cheap foods. However, the logistics of determining what crops are used for what purposes seem daunting to me.
Fat tax… interesting. I guess, while they’re at it, they can try to impose a “Birth Tax” to help with the overpopulation of some cities.
When do I get my Twinkie for knowing the fat kid??
the little black kids aren’t fat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are starving to death so i suggest instead of making fun of how bloated they are b/c they are sooooooooooooo hungry why dont you do something about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U r soo right freerice.com does something about it check it out!
They are fat because of worms in their stomachs stupid!
LOL – Excellent blog!
Desirae,
I can’t tell if you are sarcastic or not about the birth tax.
You should look up “One Child Policy” in China. A birth tax is pretty much what they have for any births after the first.
It actually has shown to improve health care and the standard of living for a lot of people because they basically are able to have and save more money because they don’t have the average of five births per woman that they did before the policy was introduced.
Interesting!
Overpopulation is definately a big reason for me of why a lot of things go to crap.
I find it interesting that you are so closed minded, you really seem to have an aversion to overweight people which in itself is quite sad, perhaps your mother, brother or father are…? Either way you need do a bit more research before you start labelling overweight people as food addicts and stealing from the hungry… perhaps you also need to do just a little bit more research on China as well before you start commenting on the one child policy that is my only suggestion. That and perhaps you have a eating disorder yourself
Do you sit at home, have a nice cooked meal while kids go hungry in Africa? … and if you do what are YOU doing to help those starving people… perhaps you need to start acting more than you talk
Stupid. Without all of these fat people taking up so much space the world would be a better place. Seriously i hate fat people and so does everyone else who isnt fat. Please get your shit together. Go run, walk, hike, ride bicycles anything please you are making me sick fat people.
Closed Minded: Unaccepting of new information or opposing viewpoints. S/He believes they already have the answer and no longer need to continue learn by intellectual argument.
If this definition represented me, I would not allow comments, I would not respond to comments, I would not have this blog in the first place. The topic of this blog is one that interests me, and I started this blog to write and discuss my thoughts on the subject with my readers.
Do not say that I am closed minded just because you do not agree with something I said. I am open to all viewpoints on this subject. If your only response to my blog is that I am closed minded, then you clearly have nothing intellectually viable to add to the conversation. The first thing people do when they feel that they are losing a debate is to personally attack the other person. Is there a specific reason that you are being so defensive?
I have never once said that overweight people are food addicts. Although, I am not opposed to the idea that some of them are.
Overweight people stealing food from the hungry? It was a joke. You couldn’t tell that?
I need to do more research on China before I comment on the one child policy? Why? Did you say this because you think that the information I offered is incorrect? What I said about the policy was not a comment. I only stated one of the many different results since the policy was inacted. You may educate yourself about China’s policy here.
Do I have a nice cooked meal while kids go hungry in Africa? Yeah, I sure do. So do you. What does that have to do with anything? Again, you’re attacking me personally for absolutely no reason.
Please feel free to comment on any of my posts.
UR A RETARD
Kitty your just fat. Make room for ppl who care about wasting food. Eating until you are obese is a waste of food. Aliens should harvest fat ppl for energy hell they are full of it.
You know the one thing I like about you is the straight forwardness in the way you come across, it is refreshing to say the least. I am educated on the China policy there is more to it apparently – and this I got from the Chinese themselves.
Do I eat well? Most of the time yes I am not immune nor did I ever say I wasn’t. My point is that there is much more than just food that is going to waste, people have no regard for what they have and little respect in the same hand. It is not only what you call fat people it is everyone – perhaps you should use your talents addressing that – I think you will enjoy Visionaries site Save our Species, he is trying to address that very thing and more.
Regarding the attacking you personally, I am sorry but the same can be said about your main topic, each to their own – you choose a topic and write what you do you are bound to get peoples backs up, it is up to you how you take it.. personally or playfully the choice is yours.
Either way you should be a lawyer – and I mean that in good light not an insult
Good post, and great discussion between you and SanityFound.
You are a discgrace, reguarding the pictures above of the two kids. the children are not fat they are starved and susequently their stomachs have bloated up. Ensure you know what you are talking about before making stupid naive assumptions.
Ensure you read my post before making stupid, naive comments.
I said one photo has distended stomachs due to malnutrition.
You don’t get a twinkie.
Have a nice day.
I wanna twinkie!!!
I’m sorry uneducated person but those kids (in the picture) are fat (only in the stomach area) because of malnutrition- BLOATED STOMACHS are one of the many symptoms…
The signs and symptoms of malnutrition depend on which nutritional deficiencies a person has, although they can include:
fatigue and low energy
dizziness
poor immune function (which can cause the body to have trouble fighting off infections)
dry, scaly skin
swollen and bleeding gums
decaying teeth
slowed reaction times and trouble paying attention
underweight
poor growth
muscle weakness
bloated stomach
bones that break easily
problems with organ function
I do understand that your blog was a joke (I have seen it firsthand on a missions trip); however, it’s not really funny…nonetheless, you are entitled to your opinion. Have a nice day…
It’s like they read the title, look at the pictures, and go straight to the bottom to comment.
I said: “…one photo features a distended stomach due to malnutrition…”
You don’t get a twinkie either.
All these twinkies to give out, and no one is smart enough to get them.
i will send a hole buffet to africa.
Aye. The children on the first picture have a disease due to the fact they can’t eat. Idiots.
Amazing
asshole…this page should be taken down… i dont understand how some people could be filled with such hate to say things like congrats fat people and then insult some little 4 year olds whos stomaches are puffed out from something totally opp. from eating to much.
Khayla,
Do you not find it interesting that the number of malnourished people in the world is only declining slowly, while the numbers of overweight people are increasing like a runaway train?
I think it says a LOT about a culture that allows this to happen.
As far as insulting the “4 year olds”, you can’t be serious. Read through the last few comments. You’ll see that it was a joke calling them fat in order to make a point.
FAT PEOPLE FIRST. HA HA HA HA WE WIN AGAIN!
The picture of those African children should be removed! It is extremely misleading even though you try to explain the distended stomach issue. The obvious topic of your website is “fat” do to over-eating and malnutrition… and if you’re going to argue that point you also need to stress the fact that in some cases it is a result of genetics or disease and not the lack of self control. I agree with you that there is a “problem” but make a “good” argument… not a rant of your own opinion based on pictures. People will read this and think… “a one sided argument… how unique” and not think twice about it.
And by the way… those kids have intestinal parasites. I’ve seen it hundreds of times. And to comment on the remarks posted… it obviously isn’t being taken as a joke. If enough people complain about it then “obviously” it comes across as being serious! So my point again… this is a page on “fat”, those kids have an “illness”. How can you NOT see a problem with this???
Brain you are SOO RIGHT GO TO FREE RICE.COM IT ROCKS TOGETHER WE WILL CURE WORLD HUNGER!
Brian,
I think you’re right.
I have been thinking about removing that picture.
In fact, I am so impressed with your point, that I’ve decided to go ahead and let you run my blog.
My user name is: McBloggenstein
My password is: don’t tell me what to do on my blog
I whole-heartedly welcome people’s ideas and opinions, but when it comes to telling me that what I do to get my point across is wrong, then that’s your problem. If you don’t like it, you know what to do.
This is a blog. Not the Wall Street Journal.
If you don’t agree with the style of humor that I choose to use, then that’s fine.
Most people get the point I made on the above post just fine. It’s not that the ones that commented get the point, and then tell me it’s not funny. They are literally not getting it. They are not reading everything.
that was good
Wow, I thought this was a great post, but the amount of stupid in the comments is too much for me. It’s called “freedom of speech,” and it’s the thing which prevents people from “taking a site down,” because the viewpoints expressed on it may offend someone. That’s like saying, “oh freedom of speech is good, but only if you only let people say things that might not offend anyone.” Everyone needs to grow a brain. McBloggenstein, I love this blog. Keep up the good work, seriously. You’re saying things that a lot of people are afraid to for fear of not being “PC” enough.
Fat is not an identity. Fat is a physical characteristic brought on in most cases by self-imposed actions. You CAN help it, but many choose not to. People need to stop being so sensitive and such babies about it.
Ha ha ha ha ha! The post was great, but the comments are mind-blowing!
Do you ever sometimes think to yourself: “Why do I bother writing more than one or two sentences?” I do. Who has the patience anymore to read an entire blog post before vomiting their opinion into the comment bucket?
Clearly not many people do.
Excellent post (and rejoinders).
wtf are you thinking that fat people are taking the food???
you fuckin jerk! suck a dick! dumb bitch ur da most disrespectfulll basterd ive ever met you must be fuckin anerexit because you trippin sayin people cant be fat n y dont u just go fuckin stick dat twinkie up ur ass cuz no one wants it!!!!!!
y da fuck do people need to be skinny??
no ones fuckin perfect!!
skinny people tink dere all hot n shit not saying alll of them but dere are alot of mest up mofo’s out dere n ur one of dem.
bitch fat people rock!!!!!!!!
Fat people dont rock. Please stop wearing revealing clothing we normal people hate that shit. All it takes is will power. Just stop eating! I promise you will live and you will lose your weight. Come on get real unless you are diabetic you can lose that fat. Nobody wants to be fat be real.
lol yuz must b 1 of doze fat ppl I’ze talkin bout inn my sub-tightle. Der onez dat don’t aggreezz wif me. I’ze anerexit, howd U knowz dat? U gotz me pegged!!!! R yuze a sykick or sumfin? I luvs my twinkyz thow, especielly ups my butts.
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those african children are not fat…!!!
their bloated stomachs are a symptom from being mal-nourished!
WOW… are these people serious???!!!??? How about reading the ENTIRE post before leaving a comment!
DANG!!!! OMFG!!!!!! LMFAO!!!!! THEY R FAAAATTTTT!!!!!
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Part of this you could consider wrong but again it’s easy to punch a hole in this argument of yours too. YES some people are starving at the hands of RICHER countries who should do something about it but most ARE NOT. Many of these poor countries practice a little thing called “Hindu” . It’s another example of RELIGION slowing down the production of mankind. People in most these countries are starving to death but cows walk the street and you can’t kill them and eat them all because of a nutty religion. Now how can the U.S. help these people when there are thousands of cows shitting all over people and the streets when they could be eaten for food? What the people should do is simply grab a big rock *ones that are sharp work best* and slam it over one of those dumb cows heads. *off to the butcher shop we go*. They would then have have cheap calories but the government is based on religion so you can be executed for eating a cow. The people need to TAKE OVER the nutty religious government first with a revolution.
http://www.satyamag.com/sat.site.images/lucknow_cow.jpg
That’s where religion gets you
You’re not very bright are you? Not every fat person overeats, and anyway, overeating in America has nothing to do with Africa. Do you think that when you don’t buy a burger from McDonalds, that burger gets shipped to Africa? Nope! somebody else eats it, and if it isn’t eaten before it spoils, it gets thrown away. Nothing from America will get to the third world countries unless the govenment changes it’s ways. If you truly cared about the food crisis, you would have a blog about funding for the third world countries. But this blog was made specifically to bash fat people and make the sheeple believe that fat people are the cause of poverty, global warming, and the sinking of the Titanic. I’m not saying that you should take down the blog, that you don’t have the right to say this, or anything, i’m just saying that you are either prejudiced, or stupid. And the two of those go hand in hand.
LOL!
That was going to be my next post… to put the blame on them. Now you ruined it. Thanks a lot.
Yeah this blog is fattism and I am bright in fact I am bright enough to find another hole in your argument that’s obvious. You say that fat people are using up food which in turns means using up the worlds resources since it takes land, energy, oil, and resources to create food right? You also state that being fat and obese is a disorder found in the poor and lower middle class; you state that right on this site. Well I have economically factual news for you pal, the richest 5% of this country controls and consumes a little over half of all the resources and wealth including all the major companies you know of like Mcdonalds, Wal-Mart, Costco, Exxon, Target, Sears, Haliburton, Hershy’s Burger King, Wendys, Hostess etc. etc.. They control most the land and real estate in the U.S. including farms, and big lots of property with mansions on it. Now think about this, the next time you see a mansion and a rich person who has ALL that land to himself, guess what? If this country was truly run by people wanting to help people that guy could live in a WAAAY smaller house and that land could be used too….yep! make more food. Now that you know rich people control and consume most the resources here, I guess it’s THEIR fault that these poor people aren’t being fed, and the fat people really aren’t the bigger problem “no pun intended”. After all remember you said fat people were generally poorer–lower middle class, and that they were also fat. Hey! they don’t control most the resources though, hence I guess it isn’t there problem is it?……… psss “it’s the skinny rich people”. Looks like you had your game wrong buddy so I guess we should start a blog against skinny rich people;… especially bankers since they got bailed out with our tax money.
I thought you might find this interesting -depending on what part of Africa that picture is from, those malnourished children probably aren’t starving.
There is a crop called cassava that many Africans grow because is very easy to grow and harvest. It comes from South America and it quickly spread through Africa because it actually thrives in the African climate better than it does in its native environment. People go and try to convince the Africans to grow other crops, but they revert back to only growing only cassava.
The problem is that while cassava is high in calories it is lacking in nutrition. Unlike potatoes or some other crops, a person can not survive on a diet of only casava.
Some of the “starving” Africans will have a caloric intake higher than the average American (according to my source which was from th 90s) but still be dieing of malnutrition. This is one of the reasons you see the bloated stomachs on the starving Africans, but not on pictures of Jews in concentration camps or other starving peoples- they’re eating a large quantity of food, but they’re still breaking they’re bodies down, so they’re producing a lot more gas than the Jews or other starving people would have been.
Very interesting info there FutureMerc adding more merit to my comment above. Many people are dieing not for a lack of calories but nutrition. Hey Multivitamins can be made and mass produced now and a couple pills a day would keep people alive, but guess what? Who do you think owns drug companies and vitamins companies? You guessed it, RICH PEOPLE and bankers. So we are back to the same problem again they aren’t using their resources fairly. Mind you, skinny people are usually rich while lower middle class people are fat and poorer “according to this site”.
@Austin
Where did I say that?
Show me.
If you assume I implied it, it was a joke. I took an interesting statistic about overweight numbers vs. starving numbers, and turned it into a post that was largely a joke, while still trying to make a small point.
You clearly have zero sense of humor.
Umm.. yes, on another post I explain that largely the most people that are overweight are also of low socioeconomic status. And? Do you have proof that it is not true? Also, people of all income are fat. I never said only poor people are fat.
According to your “economically factual” news you offer me, you are trying to say that because the richest people control all of the goods and own most of the land, that they should be blamed for the overweight?
Excuse me, but first of all, the easiest thing for anyone to do is to shift the blame to someone else. Most of what I do on this site is to point out bad habits, and try and offer an explanation for it, as well as sometimes a way to change ones thinking about their habits for the benefit of their health. While the richest people often make billions on making cheap products and food, no one is making people choose these things. You might suggest that poor people have no choice, but that scenario is simply not the case for the majority of very overweight people. There’s no doubt that there are more unhealthy food products in the grocery stores now than ever. But there are also more healthy ones. The huge companies you mentioned are also able to (because of their large size) bring more kinds of fruits and vegetables from farther away faster and cheaper than ever before.
You, Austin, are retarded. Good job shifting the blame.
@FutureMerc
That is actually quite interesting.
I didn’t say that the African kids with the distended stomachs were that way because of starvation. I did say that it was due to malnutrition. I didn’t mean to imply that they were starving just because I included their picture. It was just part of a joke, that was part of a bigger point I was trying to make.
@Austin
I love how you think that his comment reinforces what you have been trying to say.
Uhh.. People die because of starvation, and people die because of malnutrition. In some cases (like FutureMerc mentioned) the people are getting plenty of calories, but not enough nutrients, but there are certainly cases where some people just don’t have enough food to live.
I wouldn’t assume that a vitamin pill would save people’s lives. Recent studies have shown that multivitamin pills have zero affect on preventing disease, and their effectiveness in general is largely unknown.
It’s an interesting tactic for you to pretend that I made a certain argument that happens to sound silly, so that you can knock it down. It’s called a strawman.
Show me where I said skinny people are usually rich. Show me.
Me stating a statistical fact that the socioeconomic levels with the highest number of overweight people are the poorer ones is not the same as saying that “all poor people are fat”, or that “all fat people are poor”.
Just because “A” usually equals “B” does not mean that “B” is always “A”.
Good detective work. Got anything else?
You are so right.
Your are a ignorant moron. those little kids that you called “fat” are in a third world country. their stomach are swollen because of malnutrition it gives them the appearance of being fat but infact their insides are swollen from starvation. you have absolutely no common descentecy to research before you open your mouth and critisize. any half desecent educated person can tell you those little kids are dieing from starvation.
THANK YOU!
yOU ARE AN IDOIT MC WHATTEVER PERSON PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE GOING TO FILL THIS WORLD WITH HATERED !
Yes you have me in the wrong McBloggenstein, I feel so defeated *sarcasm*. You are obviously brilliant and the psychologists and scientists that have PHD’S (not nutritionists that’s not their main job) who have stated that people’s bodies try to keep them within a certain weight range using hormones like Leptin and Ghrellin; well they are full of shit obviously. I mean Leptin doesn’t exist because you say so, so that makes it true congratulations, you’ve obviously changed the “facts” about Leptin by your belief. You’re brilliant, like a little child prodigy “Ingmar Lazar Pianist or something”, nobody that knows science would question you. *more sarcasm* If I ever need advice I know who to come too now, I will either just contact you or look at your blog. *rolls eyes*
psssss…Leptin doesn’t exist even though it has been shown to regulate weight in science all because the owner of this blog said so and that makes it true, FORGET THE SCIENCE!!
*sigh*
Once…
…again,
…where did I say this?
Show me.
I see you have yet to show me where I said the other things I supposedly said.
You’re putting all your hate of people that spread bad science because of their prejudices on me for no good reason. All you can do is make up things I never said and call me an ass for it.
Why don’t you address something specific on another post of mine, rather than build up a false argument against me just so you can try and make me look bad to no avail. This post was obviously (I thought) a joke, and obviously not your cup of tea, humor wise. I am more serious on many other posts, and address important topics. If you feel that discussing health and obesity is important, then give your opinion on a specific topic, and find out what I have to say.
Maybe we should start with changing the eating habits of our children? Two sites worth checking out, joining forces with and supporting:
http://www.angrymoms.org
http://www.jamieoliver.com/school-dinners
Let’s stop arguing and start acting! Whether fat, thin, rich, poor, our whole human race is at severe risk of malnutrition and becoming overly medicated for diseases caused by it!
Erm, you know those little Africans get those large bellies from malnutrition right? Get your information right before you post something so cruel you insensitive clod.
First of all if you say that people can easily control their weight by “implication” as far as I am concerned you are also saying leptin doesn’t exist by default which has been shown in science to exist. It’s like saying I think Jewish people are greedy money hording thieves and then someone can up too me and said “hey you don’t like Jewish people do you?”. Then if I had the gaul to be like ohhh innocent me I didn’t SAY THAT I love and like Jews a lot I just think they are greedy. DUHHHH!! Of course if you call them wealth hording big noses people will assume you don’t like them because you have done a good job implying that ALL BY YOURSELF. This blog is shit and your work you have put into it means nothing to me. If I were a real man about this I would contact wordpress and ask them to remove it or risk being sued and I am still thinking about doing it I haven’t decided yet.
**NEWSFLASH**
“Local retarded idiot who likes to make analogies that don’t make sense while being a crybaby about one person out of billions that has something to say that idiot doesn’t like decides to sue blogger.”
WAAHHH!
Read my subtitle at the top of the page. Then go away.
P.S. Have fun suing me on the basis of… not agreeing with me… I think the judge would put you in jail for being such a cry baby. You should start your own blog about how much you cry.
No I think It would be better to have wordpress itself just remove you don’t you think?
Austin,
Have you ever heard of a thing called freedom of speech? We have it in America. Its a great thing… and often leads to insightful discussions among people. You should try that sometime instead of going around threatening other people for voicing their opinions that you disagree with.
Your joking right? Have you heard of a little thing called the “patriot act”? Basically with all the executive orders Obama has he can and the government can do anything to you they WANT including fire the CEO of GM which just happened. You have no rights fool. You only have as many rights as the ultra wealthy people and the large corporations in bed with the government say you do. If you don’t believe me go to govtrack.com and see for yourself the bills and executive orders that have passed. The whole idea of having a free country was a great idea but like George Carlin said basically the whole country is really nothing more than a steaming pile of shit anyway because think about how we got started. We got started by a bunch of wealthy land and slave owners who taught us all men were created equal…yeah! All men except the niggers the woman and the Indians and the fat asses…ahhhhh! always nice to use that authentic American language. Put into so many words wealthy and powerful still control everything they always have and they always will; one only has to look into history to figure that out. Congratulations you have basically no rights it’s all about profit and if WordPress thought they would lose money having you here you would be gone. Personally I am not going to say anything to them because I think your an A-Hole causing all this hate among overweight people and that would be a waste of my energy to threaten them. I just think your very naive; you talking about your rights just now was another example of how little you know. Are you some kid ins his basement on the internet typing shit in blogs all the time? Let me guess you can’t be any older than 30 right? Be honest about it now.
[...] The post is called: Stop stealing food from the hungry!! [...]
Okay, I give up, they win….
Dear McBloggenstein,
I respectfully request that you must stop writing this blog. While obesity is a serious issue in the North American culture (and Australian, and increasingly Europe) and malnutrition continues to be an equally pressing issue in Africa (and Latin America, and South East Asia), it is obvious at this point that your blog is serving no purpose at this time other than to offend people. It must be shut down.
I suggest the reason that your blog is serving no purpose is a deep lack of critical thinking skills, basic literacy and a fundamental lack of understanding of the basic principals of sarcasm.
I humbly suggest that you must put this blog on temporary hiatus to address the root problem of the misunderstanding in your blog and must immediately begin a blog called “Stop Being So Stupid”.
Thank you for your continued diligence in these educational matters I do hope you will now turn your attention to the basic educational needs of society so that we can then understand the basic dietary need of our bodies.
Cheers,
Beagle Smuggler.
Apparently, your sense of humor is lost on many people.
Holy crap!
Way too funny
Classic Bloggy – a kernel of truth wrapped in a big layer of sarcasm and irony
Classic Bloggy commenters – completely miss the point of the article and then proceed to spew vitriol all over the author
Beagle Smuggler hit the nail on the head.
You can’t legislate stupidity or close-mindedness or sense of humor or defensiveness or…did I say stupidity?
Holy shit!!!
WTF, did you do?! post a video on 4Chan, YouTube, or Fantasyfeeder.com and link them all to this blog post????
*facepalm*
Anchordown, you used to contribute to MFS, right? The old site went down but “Tuesday” has got a new version up and running, myfatspouse.bravehost.com. Please do join us, I’d love to hear how you are doing these days!
Sorry about the interruption Bloggy, please carry on, I love your blog!
Austin….wow. Do you even remember what the topic was about?
Here’s the truth first of all I say that weight is heavily influenced by genes. Also nobody has free will in my opinion or you are not being scientific. So in a certain sense it’s not anyone’s fault how you act. How you act in any behavior is a complex mass of chemicals and neurons which fire the way they do because of
1.Environment and previous experiences
2.Genes
It’s just like pavlov’s dogs you ring a bell and pretty soon they think food is coming whether it is or not. That’s the same way with every behavior humans have only just more complex but still scientific. To say people have free will is not scientific because it’s implying that someone could have made a decision to do the things they do in another way which isn’t true because science says EVERYTHING happens for a REASON and that reason is definite and measurable if you had the right tools.
OMG! When I wrote my comment, it was based simply on the number of people who responded without reading your full post (either that or they are truly stupid). I hadn’t had the patience to read through Austin’s longer comments. I’m having a debate with myself at the moment on if Austin is suffering a mental disability and I’m hoping that the part of me that thinks that s/he is wins out.
Austin “Arguments” To Date:
1. People are starting because they are Hindu’s.
2. Virtually incoherent rant that the people / companies who control the majority of the worlds resources also consume them.
3. People are starving because big-pharma is denying them access to multivitamins, which in one or two pills can substitute for a regular diet.
4. Nonsensical ramblings saying that anyone who believes that people can make choices to control their weight somehow disbelieves in hormones, specifically Leptin.
5. The patriot act means that the American people do not have freedom, which seems to lead to people in general having no free will and cannot control their behaviours…
Wow, I think if we post this line of argument on FAIL BLOG we can get a public education fail as something is deeply wrong here.
I would usually follow the advice of avoiding battles of wits with unarmed foes, however, at the risk of being accused of insulting the person rather than the argument… here goes:
1. Saying that people are starving because they can’t eat a particular kind of meat is a gross logically fallacy (and I think I’m being generous there)… if you don’t know what a logical fallacy is look it up, I’ll be using that term a lot.
If people starved because they could not eat beef, then all people who don’t eat red meat, or who are vegetarian, or vegan would be starving.
Furthermore, the vast majority of the world’s Hindu’s live in Indian, which does have poor areas (so does America) but which largely has a thriving middle class population and is one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
The critical areas for starvation are in the horn and sub-saharan regions of Africa, where religious food restrictions are not even remotely a consideration as compared to:
- desertification eroding natural grazing pastures
- lack of access to clean water
- declining herds and crop yields
- political and military conflict isolating communities from resources
- political and military corruption cutting off aid to communities.
Finally, arguing why people are starving has little to do with why people are fat (unless you are making a joke, see post).
2. Logical fallacy again. I think the quote you are looking for is the Pareto principal (80/20 rule) which in 1982 was seen in the US financial markets as:
- In 1982 2% of the US population controlled 80% of the wealth. (misquoted pareto principal released in 1982)
In 2001 the actual statistics are 1% of the US population controls 40% of the wealth while 80% of the US population controls 9% of the financial wealth. (University of Southern California)
If the argument had been halted at the disparaging look at the control of wealth then we could have begun to scratch the surface on why aid and resources are not getting to the areas of the world which need them, but then to leap to the conclusion that control of wealth is then extended to consumption of all resources… look up logically fallacy again.
If we look at consumption statistics the most shocking (Sierra Club) statistics sight that 20% of the worlds population (mainly North America) consumer 87% of the worlds resources.
Again you need to dig deeper and understand that this particular equation is dealing with non-renewable resources: oil, natural gas, etc…
It is also true that industrialized nations disproportionately consume energy, produce CO2, and have consumer driven societies.
However, for our purposes food is a renewable resource, and we produce more food in North America than we need to feed our population three times over, it’s not a matter of over production or over consumption as to why resources are not getting to poorer regions, it’s politics, price flooring and global economies.
3. Is is sufficient to say that first, big-pharma is actually fairly pro-active about giving out the multi vitamins, in fact they to that in stead of giving out aids vaccines, other anti-virals, and badly needed degenerative disease assistance.
Furthermore, popping two multivitamins a day is never going to replace a complete lack of protein and complex carbohydrates needed in a daily diet. In fact downing a whole bottle won’t help you.
4. While hormones do help to regulate and control weight, we as humans can control our hormones and hormone blockers by eating a proper and balanced diet.
5. The rights of the individual always need to be balanced against the rights of civil society. In this way neither can be paramount. Patriot act or no patriot act it is impossible to mount a logical argument that would demonstrate that people in North America have less personal freedom now than at any other point in history.
So, we have political, social, economical, and religious freedom, but free will may not exist?
Nature vs. Nurture…. this argument largely died with Einstine’s thoughts on Schopenhauer’s words: ‘Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,’.
This does not equate to humans being complex meat machines who simply respond to external stimuli…
What it is, is a rejoinder to Descarte’s separation of body and soul (I think therefore I am) which severed the body from the soul philosophically making humans purely creatures of thought and free will.
Schopenhauer and Einstein (and many others) refer to human cognitive sciences which show that the human brain filters common information into a sub-conscious activity. That is once your brain knows what a ‘car’ looks like / is. It doesn’t expend the energy to reinterpret ‘car’ every time it sees one. This is one reason why although a scene may be complex if you choose two people, one who sees the scene daily and one who is new to it, the new person is more likely to identify an unlikely object….
Likewise cognitive science goes to our base habit developments. No food tastes as good as your mother’s food because you learned to equate those smells and tastes early with emotional bonding and being fed… If your mum fed you McDonalds all the time, and you learned to equate that with being fed and happy family times, then you will have a cognitive behaviour that predisposes you to like McDonalds.
This doesn’t mean that we cannot alter our actions, habits or cognitive behaviours. It’s simply more difficult than a quick decision to turn right or left.
We are not forever doomed to be controlled by our sensory inputs that equate McDonalds with Pleasure, we have the ability to educate ourselves, to make rationale choices, to ignore cravings, find healthy substitutions for craving and to work on our own cognitive behaviours to make those substitutions feel the need that McDonald’s was originally filling.
This is of course more difficult when the issue of addiction is brought to the table, but like alcoholics, we can choose to alter what we do, not what we will.
Okay you blew that way over the top buddy and I did read your long speech unfortunately. The first thing you said at the top was 1. People are starting because they are Hindu’s? Starting? Are they like little automobiles brum! brum! brum!. Well you are right they are “Starting”. They are starting to be fucking retarded like most religions out there. Religion=retarded=beaglesmuggler!! YES it is true that religion is to a large part a reason why a lot of people are starting I mean starving and dieing in the world duh. Religion has always been fucking people over don’t you know that? In a lot of Hindu based countries they are food walking right by them i.e. cows that they refuse to kill and eat. If they don’t want to industrialize the country and start killing the cows then fine but why should America give a fuck about the problem they are causing THEMSELVES? America needs to focus on itself more and stop worrying about other countries so much; that’s a start maybe then the economy would be better here too. The U.S. is responsible for most the military conflict in the world, we sell weapons to countries and then go to war with them later and fund both sides of a war, it’s called the war machine that profits from wars and conflict. Have you ever heard of Haliburton and Lockheed Martin inc? They are both 2 big war profiting companies that love conflict with a burning passion since that’s how they make money and eat. Again though Fat people don’t own or control those companies in general so that’s not their fault. Then we have religion again not fat people’s fault’s, people choose to obey those nutty ass religions many of which have people at the very top who profit from the religion itself. In fact just about every problem can be blamed on rich and wealthy people, not fat people. There we go, that’s an easy way out of things isn’t it? Basically if you are having a problem today it’s probably the fault of a rich or wealthy person. Are you working today is a shitty ass job? That has to be the fault of a rich person who owns the company you work for right? Is there not enough food around for everyone? That’s the fault of rich people who control most the land and add HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP to food which makes people fat but it’s cheaper for them so they can make MORE MONEY. Do you feel sick today? That’s the fault of wealthy people too obviously I mean haven’t you seen sicko by Michael Moore? You can’t get cheap medical care in the U.S. it’s the fault of RICH and WEALTHY PEOPLE price gouging. All the bad perseveres they add with the high calories that’s the fault of big food companies EVERYTHING EVERYTHING EVERYTHING EVERYTHING is the fault of rich wealthy people.
P.S. besides my post above that’s an really and oxymoron if you think about it. I quote you from your post “leap to the conclusion that control of wealth is then extended to consumption of all resources” First of all the more people consume the more profit they make so rich/wealthy people love it when people consume more. 2. If they “CONTROL IT” then why can’t “they” i.e. the wealthy people be more responsible and see that the resources get more evenly distributed? The definition of control from dictionary.com is to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command. So why don’t they direct those resources to people who need them since they ultimately control it? Resources and wealth are closely tied if not the same. From dictionary.com again here is the definition of resources on line 2
resources, the collective wealth of a country or its means of producing wealth.
There we have it
Guess it’s not fat people’s fault it’s RICH BUTT FILTHY FUCKING RICH AND WEALTHY PEOPLE
Okay, I’ll admit it, I made a really basic mistake in not re-reading my own response and opened myself up to a well deserved critique of my own lack of proof reading.
Fortunately for me Austin realized that I was referring to his post of January 24th, 2009 when his ‘thoughtful’ comments began with the assertion that Hinduism is the root of world hunger.
Now, I’m not going to defend religion here. I don’t think religion has served humanity well, I lump all religions in with each other and I think the Christians, Hindus, Scientologists, Muslims, Sikhs, Hari Krishas etc… are all as much to blame as each other for many violent and horrific acts in our past, present (and likely future).
That being said, to blame Hinduism over any other religion doesn’t make sense. Why? While hunger/malnutrition is a serious problem in India, as it is in almost every part of the world including pockets in North America the highest rates of malnutrition are actually in Sub-Saharan Africa (Christian & Muslim predominantly) and Latin America (Catholic).
Since the late 1990′s India and China have been having reasonable economic growth with an expanding middle class.
So, if we are going to blame religion for malnutrition it would be a better case to go after the Muslims and Christians.
This is of course on the basis that it is the religion that is preventing people from getting food as opposed to access to food, aid, medical care, clean water, basic infrastructure etc… which are closer to the root causes.
I can’t really make heads or tails of what Austin is trying to prove by ranting about the military industrial complex, or american isolationism, other than he either may be for blaming them for obesity and/or hunger or against blaming them for anything. Who knows. And the idea that the more a person consumes dictates wealth is a theory is best sold to shopaholics. I will again guess that what s/he might be trying ever so hard to say is the more resources a person/company controls the more wealth they accumulate.
While I’m glad that Austin can look up the term ‘resource’ in a dictionary I suggest s/he may want to try reading any of the reports that discuss resource consumption / distribution, etc… or well, any professionally published report.
In all scientific reports you will find this small document at the front detailing methodology which will include details about what was and was not included in the study and measurements. In this way the scientific report will tell a person things like: this report only deals with the non-renewable resources and then it will list the specific resources, time period, and locations they were studied in.
If Austin (or anyone) is unfamiliar with a scope statement (found in the methodology section) it may also be useful to familiarize yourself with the concept of a glossary. Also typically attached to most reports. Dictionary definitions are useful for a general english lexicon but are too broad to be useful for scientific application that would be as complex as resource consumption.
I am shocked at you saying how fat thos african children are. It’s called malnutrition, you fuckwit. Go get an education.
I can’t believe people are still posting that comment. It’s called reading the entire blog post before commenting.
Okay for once some of what beaglesmuggler is saying makes sense. Anyway people that keep saying “I am shocked at you saying how fat thos african children are. It’s called malnutrition, you fuckwit. Go get an education.”! Really are fucking stupid and SHOULD read the blog on that I would agree 100% also speaking of education you left the e off “those and didn’t capitalize African ya fuckwit <—– not even a word”. Anyway back to our half way reasonable conversation here; I think you are right that wealthier countries in general are stealing to a degree for poorer countries, but then you would have to find the people or group of people that are the most responsible in wealthy countries for stealing the resources and wealth of other countries. I also agree with you 100% that religion in general as a whole has been a pain in the ass to humanity from day one for the most part. Personally, I think that rich people are mostly to blame though for shortages in everything; think about what the movie zeitgeist said: note I don’t even like the movie, but it says in a capitalistic system SCARCITY=PROFIT and I think that is true. You have to keep resources like oil which is used to cultivate food, and food itself scarce or nobody would pay much for it if at all. That means that some people in the world are going to have to have a small amount of food because it’s being kept scarce by the wealthy. Also I still believe that genetics is about 70% responsible for what people weigh in a free food environment however I am sure that like all behavior some of it is influences by the environment too. If that is the case I think we can both agree though that it is in the best interest of wealthy people to get fat people to eat more than they should for whatever reason whether it be genetics or environment correct? Remember capitalists are trying to keep things scarce and demand high Monsanto is doing a greet job now with trying to make food even more scarce and expensive ESPECIALLY THE GOOD HEALTHY FOOD like organic fruit and veggies that you talk about the importance of eating on your site.
ARE YOU FRIGGIN KIDDING ME?!?!?! ARE YOU ILLITERATE OR JUST TOO LAZY TO READ?! He says right there that those kids are not actually fat! Do you just scan through til you find a picture?
“Ugh, ooh, pretty picture…ooh, a couple words…OOH I AM OUTRAGED!!…but all this reading is hurting my headbrain. I’ll just go down to the comment section and bang my head against the keyboard.”
Oh my god! How do you even figure out how to inhale and exhale continually? I’m begging you, do not ever reproduce.
umm, those black kids are bloated from malnourishment, i hope your joking. asshole.
You should really take the picture of off those poor african kids.. They should NOT be made fun of.
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Dude it’s NOT Ok to even put the Picture up as fat people Anyway so if you were a little Smarter you might of thought about that!
Wow, ur retarted. These kids in Africa are starving to death and ur making fun of them? You really should NOT write about things like that, sure the fat kid was not as bad to make fun of as the african kids but still, think about yourself and your flaws, not other peoples.
Stop feeding the 3rd world!! They are over populating and cannot support themselves. Yes the fatty fat fats in the developed world need to fix their problems, but massive feeding and growing of populations that cannot support themselves in the long-run is just cruel.
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Um yah your a dumbass, the two black kids arnt fat..
Their stomach is swollen bc they have no food.
its a type of disorder. so yah and you website is stupid for this.
Corrections:
You ARE a dumb-ass, the two black kids arEn’t fat. Their stomacheS ARE swollen because they have no food (actually they may have food – swollen feet hands and orange hair are signs of starvation – a swollen belly is usually the result of parasites from unclean water) it IS a type of disorder (infection actually). You AND YOUR website are stupid. (you don’t end a sentence in “their” and it is redundant)
Bloggy:
I can’t believe you are still getting these comments. How are Barak Obama’s education reforms going? I see there is much work to be done.
Would you rather live in a country with an obesity problem or a starvation problem?
Haha.. So am I to understand that those are our only two choices?
I have thought a long time for an answer to show up how stupid your article is. Today I think I found the perfect comparison: You show up the obesity problem and connect it with the problems malnutrition and starvation.
I found something pretty much like this: There are people in the industrial nations which got aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the money what the developing countries got a lack of. So the rhich American an Europe People STOLE the money from the poor people.
According to your logic I would have to make the rhich europe/american people think about it by building up a totally stupid and I had to disrespect anybody’s opinion that’s not totally the same.
Other examples can be found easiely but one other aspect that you are totally wrong about is that if the people in Europe/American would give the food to Africa and Asia if their weren’t enough obese children.
There would be quite enough food for all starving people if they money to pay it. In the end the malnutrition and starvation are consequences from the capitalism not from anybody stealing food away.
Do you expect that the companies would take the food that they cannot sell to fat kids anymore and bring it to the africans.
Did ever anybody mention that you were stupid, naiv or something? If anybody did he was totally right.
Huh, you’d think that someone with the title “anti-capitalist solution” would recognize a commentary on disproportionate consumption and the over consumption of resources and goods by the G20 while the developing nations have little to no economic or food security. I suppose this was too much to ask for given the literacy level of the writer.
FYI – to make an argument people may read try some basic grammar and spelling tips I have taken the liberty of offering some on your ill constructed argument. Unfortunately in places I have no idea of your actual meaning.
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I have thought for a long time to come up with an answer to demonstrate the stupidity of your article. (Try not to end sentences in prepositions unless they absolutely cannot be re-written)
Today I think I found the perfect comparison: You compare (show up is a non-standard phrasing that doesn’t really appy in this situation you are taking issue with his comparison) the obesity problem by connecting it to the problems malnutrition and starvation.(using the proper connective verbs and adverbs is important for clarity)
I found something similar (simplification = clarity): There are people in the industrial nations who (not which) got all (you don’t need exaggeration when you write clearly) the money that (not what) the developing countries lack. (again the simplification and preposition thing)
So the rich (rich is not spelled with two “h”‘s) American an Europe People STOLE the money from the poor people.
According to your logic I would have to make the rich (really not two “h”‘s – spell check would have caught this) Europe/American (nations are always capitalized) people think about the disproportionate wealth gap (when you are using a new thought don’t us “it” make it clear what you are referring to) by building up a totally stupid (what? you would need to build a totally stupid what? – subjects in sentences are important the thought is lost without them) argument (I’m guessing at your meaning); (semi-colon for the sentence fragment) and the I would have (would have is future past not had which is simple) to disrespect anybody’s opinion that’s not the same as mine (again add clarity with subjects).
Other examples can be easily (has one “e”) found (adjective before verb – and you need a subject or a period – they can easily be found where or by doing what?).
One other aspect that you are completely (totally is a numeric reference if he is is wrong on 10 of 10 items it is totally incorrect, if he is simply wrong in his conclusion and you want to emphasize that he is completely wrong) wrong about is the assumption (subjects, tell us what he is toally wrong about) that if the people in Europe/American did not have so many obese children (it made no sense to say that people in Europe/America didn’t have enough obese children) they (subject again) would then (time) give the food to Africa and Asia.
There would be enough food for all starving people if they money. In the end the malnutrition and starvation are consequences of (not from use the derivative) the capitalism not from anybody stealing food away.
Do you expect that the companies would take the food that they cannot sell to fat kids anymore and bring it to the Africans? (Capitalize countries and questions need a question mark)
Did ever anybody mention that you are (if you say were you are agreeing that he is stupid no more, which I don’t think is your intent) stupid, naive (again, spell check) or something?
If someone (improper subject tense) did they were (since it’s an impersonal noun the gender singular does not work) completely (again numbers vs. qualifiers) right. (Right is non-standard useage but common enough – correct would be more formal)
that was really really fun to read. I hope you keep/start blogging again. I can’t believe how dumb some people are…. I am a pretty PC person & it’s kind of refreshing to just read, laugh & think about your blogs.
I like that Austin is going to sue you because of the patriot act. haha.
I will try to take a moderate standpoint. Yes, some people are drastically overweight for medical reasons (e.g. metabolism deficiency). And actually a part of the reason for obesity increasing is that obese people are more fertile than “normal” people (more energy for production of eggs and sperm and for zygote development). For this reason, they are able to contribute more of their genes into the next generation–thus leading to a gradual increase in obesity.
People may eat because they are depressed and that is the system they use to cope with that stress. They end up like the character “fat bastard” from Austin Powers and eat because they are unhappy and they are unhappy because they eat…and they cannot stop. There are other reasons that I will not address, but indeed other reasons that some people cannot control.
STILL I am critical of a lot of obese people. These are the individuals you find on that TV show “Celebrity Fit Club.” These people are just lazy. Yes we all have stress, and yes I can understand that it is really difficult. These people have to grasp the fact that eatting healthy and exercising is a LIFESTYLE, but obesity and being out of shape is not something that develops overnight. You definitely ease into it and before you know it, it is almost impossible to get back into a healthy routine. I get angry when I see them fight for the nearest parking space and when I see them in the drive thru at dairy queen. They are killing themselves and I see it as a form of ignorance or selfishness or something like that. Forgive me if I have offended anyone.
I believe that people who are obese and stay that way (those who do not have a condition) are weak. They give into their depression or their problems and turn themselves into an unhealthy person which in turn actually makes their depression worse. They shorten their lives and hurt their families.
I myself have had my share of depression, but I fought it. You see I am a bio-psych double major, so I understand how the human mind and body work. You can train yourself to think a certain way just like you can cause your body to perform a certain way. You have to lead a healthy life style.
I will say one more thing. The two African chidren appear to be suffering from an albumin deficiency. Albumin is an essential amino acid that helps with osmotic pressure in the body. When you have a deficiency of albumin (hypoalbuminemia) your belly will swell because of fluids from your plasma escaping to that region; however, another cause of this fluid build up is cirrosis of the liver (probably the primary cause).
Everyone please be healthy if not for yourselves, for you family who will be greatly heart broken if you dont. Your chances of having a heart attack or stroke increase with obesity. Also, you are more likely to develop type II diabetes. You will have a variety of problems that all buld on each other. Take care everyone.
go to freerice.com!!!!!!!!!!!
Correct me if I am wrong but the first half of the article, featuring the pictures points out that there is enough food in the world for everyone- it’s just not ‘evenly spread out’. Hence, we have people eating themselves to obesity while others are starving away.
Well that’s what the pictures said to me, loud and clear.
Hey there,
one aspect your misinterpretation leaves out completely is the fact that if you give those countries like china and India that were also always suffering famines and so on get that fat like ppl in industrial countries. Even if you could manage it to install the same kind of wealth like in the today USA and Europe in the very every of world’s nations there would be a soceity formed knowing fat people and starving people. The reason for this is not the lack of ressources but the system itself. You can’t ignore that a capitalistic division of world’s ressources follow’s the idea that there are rhich people who own more than poor people. It is the aim of capitalism to get single individuels higher and more possesing then others. So far we go on living capitalistic we will have those problems. This problem has so far nothing to do with the world’s ressources that can’t be divised fairly but with the people’s worshipping non of the african and asian poor countries. The point is that there is enough food and if a country is ready to pay for it it gets food cause then money comes to the possesing companies.
As I said if you could manage that all the world would have a wealth like the industrial countries this problem wouldn’t be a world problem any more but existing in the very every world’s city.
I am not accusing anybody in specific but the capitalistic system in which abusing is an option as well. Of course you can try make the people think about from what company they buy there goods but who would not take the cheaper bargain if neccassary.
Fairness can not be injected in our economycal system but there is not an atlernative so far cause communism will never function as it was once thought. There is no way that starving could be stopped in our system by trying to act fairer cause most human individuels are not acting human and do not respect the community’s laws that everybody should survive. The most humans are egoists and so they might give credits to countries that need it but they know about the profit of it and this is the reason why they do ‘help’.
Blaming the fat people for their wealth and sportless way to live their lifes does not change anything. Politicans and concern leaders can’t be blamed for this, either, cause it is a problem that involves the every one of us. To put someone down as a scapegoat is a long-living tradition in world’s history but never really work. As a German I know that cause my nation has paid a bloody price for putting a group of people down as a scapegoat for their own weakness.
But this doesn’t really matter right now. What I wanted to point out is that this whole problem about the unfair division of money and connected to it food cannot be solved by accusing a group of people causing this problem.
I thought I would just point out something kinda obvious here. This guy states that people are egotistical i.e. most humans are by their nature I agree. The part that doesn’t make any sense to me is when he says we should blame politicians and leaders for this system; ok WOW hold on just hold up back up lol. Where do you think these politicians come from? Who do you think votes these people in whom are supposed to be representing the majority and VOTERS best interests? uhhh humans i.e. people and most of them are egotistical. So the politicians according to our systems are supposed to be and I know this isn’t many times true but they are supposed to be a representation of the majority which as you stated is egotistical. So the people are still to blame to a large degree.
ok, good point. the question is just why those obese people are blamed for one example of how to be egoistical. I mean of course they are a part of soceity eating too much but I do not belief that everybody else is not part of an egoistical way to abuse the world’s ressources. In fact I think that there are people who do found ways of how to take profit from the world hunger without eating to much. I think the reason for the great “let’s make fatties respondsible”-thing is not that their role in this is greater then the role of others but that it is quite visible. I guess the influence of tabacco industry to south America and Africa is just as bad as the influence of every other branch for the people living their. But who would make a smoker responsible for this? Nobody, cause the people want to have a clear image of their foes. It is the same reason why obese people are taunted at school while alcoholics and smokers are not. I think there are ways to be quite more egoistical and to be unhealthy as well then to become obese but those people are no aims of this “making respondsible”-thing.
Another point I figured out last days is that if you are really wanting to give fat people a chance to lose weight and get into normal seize again you cannot act like this, saying: “Hey, you fat fatso, you are the only one respondsebile for your fucking obesity, so I will wether help nor accept you before you lost a lot of weight.” That is not how people want to be treated and just a very few would try to change cause of this. If anybody wants those people to change he should taunt them and think them to be that selfconfident for change. He should try to help them by accepting them. Thats one of the major mistakes peoplet that critizes fat people do. I hope I made myself clear
I agree it’s a bias that people hold and like the person of this site doesn’t want to talk about there are reasons in a HIGH CALORIES ENVIRONMENT that people and some more than other GENETICALLY weigh a lot due to things like LEPTIN which the person who owns this site calls junk science even though it influences to a large degree how much people eat and how much they weigh when a lot of calories are present. It’s partially what you eat i.e. your environment and genetics both. They make fun of fat people to make themselves feel better is basically all there is too it.
And there are STILL people not reading the caption beneath the pictures! Awesome!
I really like idiots, because they make me look less stupid by comparison.
@ Austin: Hyperthyroidism can cause weight problems, too, but Leptin influence is largely controllable by diet; and metabolism by activity levels.
Not saying science is junk, or that what you’re saying is untrue, but I’m just saying it’s possible to overcome the problem.
I was originally against what you had to say in you blog.
Then I began to read the comments.
This made me go back to the blog and re-read what you were talking about.
I can’t say I agree with you 100%,
but I can’t say that I disagree with you at all.
your points are valid and I really don’t have an issue with a blog about fat people.
I think maybe the subtitle might have been what upset most people.
Really though.
Great job.
you made me think AND laugh.
you are most definitely a ‘wordist’.
Hey, can’t believe how many people misread you here!
Anyway – for the people arguing about the malnourished African children, it’s not parasites, it’s Kwashiorkor – wikipedia article not a bad summary. The distended abdomen is a combination of enlarged liver and oedema.
I loved this! You know why?
Because it made a point, with the intent to cause a change in a society’s behavior.
This article was not written to be applied to individual behaviors, but an entire society’s.
The irony of the pictures just goes to show how skewed our views can be, and how ignorant we can be to global issues. I think they really make you think about how unfair it is for some children to be overly indulgent while others starve.
Instead of blaming the author for “insensitivity”, why don’t we thank them for exposing a real issue and challenging us to think of others.
Something I wouldn’t say if I didn’t feel the need: I
t also makes me sad to read other comments of people who completely missed the point or are taking things way out of the context of the article. Because clearly, the “humor” about the first picture is actually a form of IRONY, which means something is not what would be expected, and therefore creates a shock and triggers you to think about what the pictures are actually revealing to you…which is harsh, cold reality. It was not intended to make fun, but to be a tool in communication. If you disagree, take a look at some satires, and brush up on your literature comprehension.
I couldn’t have hit the nail more directly on the head than that. Thank you.
Solutions:
1) We need a Starvation Impact Report for all food handlers. See “Environmental Impact Report” and convert it toward making sure no food is wasted unnecessarily – the report must be public and open to challenge.
2) Make price fixing and informal trusts illegal.
3) Only serve healthy meals to kids in public school and provide heavy amount of education to them on the topic.
4) Offer grants and subsidies for companies offering marketing for healthy products – healthy for humans consumption and for the environment.
5) Remember that if you use humor when training your dog, he usually doesn’t get it.
Hi. I am about to begin a teaching career in one of American cities, and your comment section scares me. They’ll all be functionally illiterate, bless them, won’t they? I will honestly try to do my part in lessening the amount of retarded internet comments in the world, but as I sit here now before this blog post, the climb just seems too steep. Ah well, I’m still in my mid twenties. There are always other career paths.
If you think the little african kids are fat you are just plain stupid, they have worms in there stomachs so it appears that way
@Iris, yet another literacy fail.
This is like the best video ever like you know
hahaha!!! hahaha!! this sight is awesome! seriously!! its very appropriate im not even kidding!
I agree with the fact that the obease rate is very high nowadays but have you ever stopped to think that people might over eat because of phycological problem and aperntly you watch to many realitie shows because there are a abundent amount of over weight rich people as well as middle class and the poor. Also have you ever thought that you just might be affending a lot of people and i understand that you have the right to an opinion but you need to do some research on that opinion before you state it.
I mean this in the most polite maner i can present
i am also sorry if i offended you
Hey if you think the world is so fat why do you bother living in it! You really need to watch what you put on thee internet, those black kids are not fat moron! Do some research before you try to make a point in the world cause in thee end you look like pretty stupid.
@skyy there is one ‘e’ in ‘the’ while ‘thee’ is a word it is uncommon usage and is interchangeable with ‘your’. Since the internet and a future time period like ‘the end’ do not belong to one person you must mean ‘the internet’ and ‘in the end’. Also, you might consider reading the blog post or the comments before commenting, failing to do so can make you look pretty stupid in the end.
NOT ALL PEOPLE TRYYY TO BE FAT THEY DONT NEED TO EAT THT MUCH TO BE FAT THEY COULD HAVE A LOW METABOLISM OR IT COULD COME FROM THEIR PARENTS AND WHEN U SAY STUFF LIKE THIS IT CAN MAKE SOMEONE INSECURE AND START STARVING THEMSELVES IM NOT FAT BUT MOST OF MY FRIENDS ARE AND WHAT U SAY IS NOT RIGHT