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The surgeon general called fat a form of domestic terrorism in a speech he gave at the University of South Carolina.
"Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9/11 or any other terrorist attempt..."
Later in the speech he added this chestnut: "Where will our soldiers and sailors and airmen come from?" Because the whole nation will be too fat to support the administration's warmongering, and then where will we be?
Reading this quite frankly makes me want to kick George Bush in the nuts. Even more than usual, I mean.
"Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9/11 or any other terrorist attempt..."
Later in the speech he added this chestnut: "Where will our soldiers and sailors and airmen come from?" Because the whole nation will be too fat to support the administration's warmongering, and then where will we be?
Reading this quite frankly makes me want to kick George Bush in the nuts. Even more than usual, I mean.
posted by mo pie at 1:38 PM
5 Comments:
I'm sorry to hear he said that. In general, I think our current Surgeon General is an amazing guy.
I'll get behind the doughnuts for peace movement
Hey Surgeon General...here's a concept: Regulate the food industry like they have in the UK where it was mandatory that food manufacturers reduce the sodium in their processed food to 1/3 of what it was before.
I believe in personal responsibility -- which is why I'd be in the "Donuts for Peace" march -- but at the same time the Government and Media go ON AND ON AND ON about how obesity is a death threat, obesity drives up insurance costs YET the various food manufacturing lobbies have them all in their pockets.
The Potato Lobby (yes, there is one) recently had FROZEN FRENCH FRIES re-classified as a FRESH VEGETABLE so that school cafeterias can serve them and still be compliant with the Food Pyramid.
Being fat isn't the terrorism within...it's the unavailablity of large amounts of affordable fresh organinc food without hormones, pesticides, and additives. We as a country have changed our diet radically in as little as three generations.
Perhaps if the government cared more about their people who might grow up to be firemen, military, cowboys, nurses, or rock stars INSTEAD of making money perhaps they'd have a healthier pool of people out here.
The NEW "Homeland Security" could be to stop giving us utter crap to eat and then yell at us for eating it.
Sorry -- I'm reading "What To Eat" by Luise Light and the Food Industry is really pissing me off. :)
It sounds so much like the eugenics thing that went around the UK during the Boer War. Where they realized that over 1/3 of their of age men were not in fit shape for fighting. So they blamed the mothers and genetics rather than the pollution and poverty that was rampant at the time.
Of course, having read the other comments, maybe having gone through this so early is why they actually do things like force reduction of sodium now.
Laura - that's what surprises me so much that the Surgeon General said that - he comes from a background in which there probably wasn't a lot of affordable fresh food available (and certainly no organic food) and he's normally not afraid to make waves (he's occasionally openly critical of groups he's invited to speak to).
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