As if portly people aren’t stigmatized and humiliated enough, now sanctimonious eco-hypocrites in the micro-media are jumping on the old pork pile with new greenie hate speech disguised as scientific talking points.
Skeptical Inquirer “journalist” Benjamin Radford recently published a what – Opinion? Blog? Commentary? News Story? – on how fat people have larger carbon footprints.
His evidence? A study about how fatties have cost the airlines millions in extra fuel costs. The rest of it is conjecture of his own creation that he assures us is common sense.
Radford cites just one little study only tangentially associating the rotund to our climate rotisserie.
How very scientific.
He also offers the laughable argument that if Americans ate less, there’d be more food for everyone else in the world.
Doesn’t this idiot understand how markets work? Less consumption will result in lower production. The global commodity price spikes we’re seeing have more to do with the cockeyed environmentalist push to produce ethanol out of food sources than the Bubbas of the American Heartland hoisting that extra Twinkie.
I guess it’s unfair to expect a “science” guy to know anything about economics or food production.
The jelly-bellied of this world are very well aware of the health risks associated with their elephantine condition. Every time they sit in a midget-sized airplane seat, every time they board a crowded bus or subway train, every time the driver’s side of their car sags three inches when they climb in, they are reminded of their own humungous heft. They don’t need some self-righteous eco-jackass like Radford to remind them of their state of existence. Neither do they need loudmouths like him to conjure up new reasons for anorexic, Gaia-worshipping coeds to look hatefully at them. Fat people are the last ones on Earth the so-called politically correct set can make fun of, shun, ignore and slap with ignorant, broad-based insult without feeling even an inkling of shame or remorse.
Our size-XXXXL friends and neighbors deserve compassion, understanding, maybe a little guidance, support and encouragement, heck, maybe even someone to take a brisk walk with a few times a week.
What they don’t deserve is a greenie guilt trip.
