One third of the world's population goes to bed hungry. Drugs are
saving the disease-prone, and many who have not considered the
consequences are having large families, often without attending
males and with increasing statistics on
AIDS.
Natural resources are exported or used for products that are
exported, with the benefits going to non-residents, mostly
corporations, mostly foreign. However, in the rest of the world,
people are getting fat, disastrously fat.
Everywhere, we are urged to eat carbohydrates which turn to
fat, or fried foods, or meat whose production involves great
use of land, water and food. In short, we are all, worldwide,
either starving or getting fat.
Even in rich countries, "health" services, meaning services for
the sick and unhealthy, are stretched to limits and face
impossible demands in the all-too-near future. It is clear
that young fat kids are almost certain to become obese adults;
fat adults represent increasing percentages of
diabetic and
coronary
cases; and as the
"baby boomers"
become older, and ultimately old, numbers will soar. All this
is for sure, and may be a lot worse than we think.
So, food industries with very efficient promotion through
the media are, although maybe unintentionally, but hardly in
ignorance, producing sickness and early death.
Yesterday, we killed off
passenger pigeons
and most species of
bison.
Today we are fattening ourselves for the kill, while starvation and
AIDS
stalk the less "fortunate". Individually, we may be
intelligent, but collectively, this seems stupid.
