Food for thought

Ahead of Channel 4's "Britain's Fattest Man" that is due to be broadcast later on this week, I'd like you to think about something.

Is it fair that people are dying of obesity, when at the same time people are dying of starvation?

According to the trailer for the program, it said that if he didn't change his ways he would die, and that he was costing the taxpayer around 20 million (?) or something like that. What amazes me is how anyone would let themselves get to that size in the first place! Wouldn't you notice if you became so fat you were bedridden? Obviously not. England has the highest obesity rate in the whole of Europe, which isn't surprising, seeing as there are take-out places on nearly every high street and everyone drives everywhere (bad for your health AND the environment). On another note, apparently the "dish of Britain" is curry and chips. What the hell? The only remotely British thing about that dish are the chips!
Now, lets look at the other side of the question. We've known for many, many years about situations in other poverty stricken or "third-world" countries. The adverts telling us to donate £1 a month are plastered across our television sets, and yet we, in the West, are eating ourselves to death. Just think of that poor child in a small village somewhere, with a large family and only enough food for not even one person. In the west, we're very picky about what we will and won't eat. For instance, I'm a pello-pescetarian - which means I'll eat fish and poultry, but not mammals. To me, it's on the same lines as cannibalism. We're mammals, so why should we eat others? But in a country where people are starving, I'd imagine you wouldn't be fussy with food, and be so ravenous you'd eat anything edible. When the program is broadcast this week, I'll come back to this subject and do a bit of research and talk some more about food, obesity and starvation.