Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices

Stating the obvious: "Two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass -- and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat. 'Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,' write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine."

Comments

Re:Corn

[Vectronic]

Geezus... yer so 1337 that they hadn't even developed the second 3 yet...

Re:Mixed Causes

[mrbluze]

Finally, BMI is a shoddy system that I'm sick of seeing. BMI was developed at a time when leeching was an accepted medical practice, and hasn't changed significantly since then. BMI can not differentiate between lean mass and lard. This means that a society of body builders would have the same average BMI as a society of, well, lazy Americans. When we start seeing the number of body builders outweigh the flabbers, then we'll review BMI. Until then it remains a useful tool because everybody understands it and it has been validated.

Re:And on the plus side. of plus-size..

[JamesP]

Oh, so you don't really understand Darwinism. Unless you get heart disease or have a stroke before you hit sexual maturity, this is irrelevant.

Actually, it matters a lot.

If your arteries are clogged, it is harder to get it up. It is harder to have a uneventful pregnancy, etc, etc

All of that gets in the 'darwin chain'

Re:Fat people are a real problem

[timmarhy]

let me guess, you were the fat kid at school who got picked on and now you have a real complex? go ahead and deny it, it just makes me right.

Re:Mixed Causes

[timmarhy]

your an idiot if you think pasteurized milk is worse for you than unpasteurized. do you know how many people died from food poisoning before the advent of modern food safety? i want to see the scientific evidence of your claims. don't link me to one of your vegan websites or it's an instant fail.

Re:And on the plus side. of plus-size..

[owski]

Should the free market decide what building standards are safe? Yes

Should the free market decide what food additives are non-carcinogenic? No, science should. The free market should decide who gets to eat them.

Should the free market come up with air quality standards? Yes

For free markets to be beneficial, they need liquidity, perfect information, and competition/alternatives. Not true. For free markets to be *perfect* they need this, nobody claims they're perfect. It's not a question of what's perfect, it's a question of what's better.

Re:And on the plus side. of plus-size..

[TapeCutter]

Wanker! :P

Re:And on the plus side. of plus-size..

[sumdumass]

Wow, Your actually saying that being blind is a choice that people live with. You actually think that all forms of blindness and all causes of it can be cured.

Well, here is a hint. Even if that is true, it is easier for you to such an inhaler and get over it instead of attempting to argue that your worse off then someone with no sight. Your fucking amazing. I bet your scar is bigger and badder then everyone else's. And when it isn't, I bet your story in how you got it is.

Simply amazing.