let them eat fat

Would you Like Fries with That? Kirk Nugent 4-14-01 “Would you like fries with that?” asks a Mcdonalds employee to an obviously overweight man. And of course he excepts the offer of those mouth watering fries and neither of them think twice about the addition of calories or the obvious health risks. Unfortunately, this scene is a common one through out America, where obesity is starting to look more like an epidemic than a …

…the poor live within ours; fat people don not threaten our ways of life; their angers entombed in flesh, they are slowed, they are softened, they are fed.” This issue can’t be taken lightly by the American public. It needs to be recognized as a problem. Not some much that we drive people to anorexia, but enough so that it is in our consciences every day. Because rather soon, it will be too late.