Anyone up for a fat tax?

THE rising number of fat people was yesterday blamed for global warming.
Scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet.

Overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage.

Dr Phil Edwards, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “Moving about in a heavy body is like driving in a gas guzzler.”

Each fat person is said to be responsible for emitting a tonne more of climate-warming carbon dioxide per year than a thin one.

It means an extra BILLION TONNES of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organisation estimates of overweight people.

You scoff at the notion, eh? Well, when things are increasingly not governed by reason and prudence but rather... what's cuter - this?



Or, this?



We know which way we will be hedging.

Seconds, anyone? These peoples' livelihood depends on it.

We’re it not for attached article on weight discrimination, we would’ve never known there is an online journal “Obesity” and something else called the “The International Journal of Obesity” and something else still called The Obesity Society.

Weight discrimination is on the rise and a few people who work at the fine institutions mentioned above and similar believe something needs to be done about it.

Lynn McAfee, director of medical advocacy at the non-profit Council on Size and Weight Discrimination in Mt. Marion, N.Y., is not surprised by the findings.

"Until we clean up language like 'war on obesity' and have authorities speak out about it, discrimination will continue to increase," she says.

and..

"Weight discrimination is a very serious social problem that we need to pay attention to," says Rebecca Puhl of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, a co-author of both studies.

Its hard-hitting analysis and solution-based problem-solving such as this is precisely what will turn the tide in this national pandemic.

The IJO claims that among severely obese people about 28% of men and 45% of women claim they have experienced weight discrimination. We imagine this would make for some rather awkward moments in canvassing….

“Excuse me, ma’am. Have you recently experienced discrimination because of your weight?”

“Uhhh….. Why do you ask?”

H/T: Hot Air