Ask and ye shall receive.
Posted on 08/16/2008 3:38:16 AM PDT by fightinJAG
The announcement this week from the Local Government Association that Social workers will consider taking 'dangerously overweight' children from their parents and placing them into care is guaranteed to tie all decent people in a veritable Gordian knot of conflicting liberal impulses.
On the one hand we all abhor the idea that children might be so packed full of high-calorie low-nutrition takeaways and convenience food by uncaring or ignorant parents that they are effectively crippled by their own bulk. On the other hand we Britons have long rather fancied ourselves to be a more than averagely tolerant bunch, and the idea of taking someone’s kids away just because they were a bit chunky rather smacks of totalitarian nanny state-ism at its worst.
The motivation behind this announcement – or, let’s call it what it is, this threat – is the projection that provision for the overweight (we mustn’t say obese) will add billions to council expenses in all sorts of areas from bigger classroom furniture in schools to larger, and more powerful crematoria.
Just to make sure that the discussion of this very complex issue is conducted in the most emotional basis possible public health expert Professor David Hunter has recently made a statement that obesity posed as big a risk to Britain as terrorism. In the sense that it might kill more of us that’s probably true. It’s also true of cars, fine wines, and those sneaky cigarettes you accidentally end up having at a party.
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Too sad for words. This once great country is no longer.
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Any truth regarding the claim regarding the lack of obesity in GB can be supported by the verifable fact that the food over there is bland, tasteless, and sometimes disgusting. Not all the food is bad but what the average Brit eats on an everyday basis does not inspire one to over-eat.
I had heard this claim for most of my life but really had no personal experience to support it. However my middle son just returned from a ten day tour of GB playing soccer. He indicated the food was terrible, and that fact was supported by one of the chaperones. If a teenager who will eat anything put on the table complains about the food, it simply must be awful.
Exactly.
*****This once great country is no longer.****
But the inhabitants are HUGE!!!
The most remarkable phenomena is the sheer numbers of people from all countries, ethnic and economic backgrounds who have enormous butts and limbs. Our human height has not increased - but it seems as if there is a new species of homo sapiens mutating.
Just compare crowd scene photos from the 1930’s & 40’s. Men, women & children were all of average height, build and body shape. No blimps among them.
Must be the diet and lack of physical labor that is mutating us from a race of impalas to hippos.
Soylent Green is people.
This story is from England. However, I agree that we aren’t too far behind them on the slippery slope.
If I send them all out on the front porch with two dozen doughnuts, will they be gone before I get out of the shower?
But I’d bet all the people who don’t like smoking were saying No, that could never happen. Smoking is different, smoking is nasty. But they won’t tell you what to feed your kids!
We need a nice big picture of the Wendy’s Baconator at this point.
I don’t know, congealed blood called pudding sounds tasty! haha
I hear a lot about council in the UK. Council this and council that.
"Council" is the English translation of "Soviet".
Yea,I want to see the try to take a Muslim child away
from their parents.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Yeah I like those but with extra bacon.
I’m definately going to have to give this a shot sometime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbTO0GlONU
I wish it looked like in R/L!
True.
Somehow your comment reminded me of a joke Mike Myers made in an interview a few years back about Canadian food (he is Canadian). (I guess Canadian cuisine has its roots in British food as well.)
Mike said one thing he liked about living in America was going out for all different kinds of foods. He said he had noticed, though, that no one ever said, “Hey, let’s go out for Canadian!”
If Obama wins this sort of fascist policy will be implemented here.
Yes, and what better excuse could they have than socialized health care? Once your part of the system, it will be for the collective good that the government dictate all your dietary and lifestyle choices (with the notable exception of engaging in risky sexual activity).
Maybe if they let people smoke again, they wouldn't be so damn fat.
Maybe if they let people smoke again, they wouldn't be so damn fat.Excellent point. Being fat is bad for your health, too. When they computed how many people die because of smoking, they totally forgot to compute the number of people who die because of not smoking!
100 years ago these people ruled the world.
100 years ago these people ruled the world.
Who wants to bet that 80 percent of the social workers are chunkers themselves?
It’s not so much burgers as it is sugary sodas, hot malts(starbucks) and candy.
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