A few articles...
Apr. 20th, 2004 01:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
About hunger in schools
About McDonalds trying to stave off obesity lawsuits
About "food insecurity"
About the "epidemic of obesity"
There is something very wrong here. Yes, I realize that many poor people are overweight because they subsist on unhealthy foods, but these people aren't the ones spending ridiculous amounts of money on slimfast or weight watchers or fancy gyms. It doesn't make any sense to me that we could have enough in this country for everyone to eat at least somewhat well, and yet have children going hungry. We're not living in the third world! We aren't suffering from a national famine either. At the risk of appearing somewhat more to the left than I generally present myself, I think it's fair to say that people in a civilized world have a basic right to eat.
And while I complain about this, there's people in the rest of the world who are actually starving. Things don't get better.
About McDonalds trying to stave off obesity lawsuits
About "food insecurity"
About the "epidemic of obesity"
There is something very wrong here. Yes, I realize that many poor people are overweight because they subsist on unhealthy foods, but these people aren't the ones spending ridiculous amounts of money on slimfast or weight watchers or fancy gyms. It doesn't make any sense to me that we could have enough in this country for everyone to eat at least somewhat well, and yet have children going hungry. We're not living in the third world! We aren't suffering from a national famine either. At the risk of appearing somewhat more to the left than I generally present myself, I think it's fair to say that people in a civilized world have a basic right to eat.
And while I complain about this, there's people in the rest of the world who are actually starving. Things don't get better.
