Tuesday, 15 August 2006

Fat of the Land

According to the Telegraph, the number of obese people in the world now exceeds the number who are undernourished-- and we're told that this bare fact (without the obvious qualifications) is terrible news.

It's a remarkable comment on a civilisation that sees hard-won abundance as a problem, whereas if this had occurred a hundred years ago when famine was still a prospect in even the wealthiest of nations, there would have been dancing in the streets.

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