Big Fat Chance
David Haslam, author of Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine, on Start the Week - making good points about the demonization of fat children in literature. I wonder whether his point is that these children are actually evil - if only because we have failed to counteract our genes.
When asked about the carbon footprint of the obese, Haslam not only effectively blames us for global warming, but suggests that we eat food that other people could have eaten. Given the person who asked the question was a guy who eats out of wastebins (Tristram Stuart) surely he should have said, no, actually they eat up food that would have added to the existing waste.
People used to be told to eat up and think of the starving Koreans. Yes, you're eating their food, you bastard...
Meanwhile Frank McCourt has had a "punishing cancer". Revenge on him for bringing Ireland into disrepute, and if so by whom or what?
When asked about the carbon footprint of the obese, Haslam not only effectively blames us for global warming, but suggests that we eat food that other people could have eaten. Given the person who asked the question was a guy who eats out of wastebins (Tristram Stuart) surely he should have said, no, actually they eat up food that would have added to the existing waste.
People used to be told to eat up and think of the starving Koreans. Yes, you're eating their food, you bastard...
Meanwhile Frank McCourt has had a "punishing cancer". Revenge on him for bringing Ireland into disrepute, and if so by whom or what?