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I received this response to my comments about the new high-fructose corn syrup ad campaign. It reminded me of a friend of mine's experience he recounted to me.He was traveling for work in the outskirts of Denver, didn't no the area, and decided to go to some fast-food place for lunch. While he was there, he saw a family come in- a mother, grandmother, and three daughters, aged 7, 11, and 15 (or so). The mother ordered the same super-sized (or equivalent) meal for each of them. And when neither the 7 nor 11 year-olds could finish the meals, the mom said to finish their food because there are starving people in africa who would do anything for so much food. The moral being, if you don't finish all of your food, you are wasteful and insulting all of the people who don't have the opportunities that they have.
It kind of struck me when he said this, that I remember hearing that phrase when I was a kid. That seems to be just one of those American parental phrases (or was when I was a kid)- "finish your food, there are starving people in ______________"
I think the ideas that foment obesity in America are much more deep-set than people (or at least I) thought. They go back to America's idea of itself as the land of plenty, the land of wealth. And just as the American Dream has gone from, if I work hard then I can give my children a better life, to, I want and deserve more now without having to do more- so has the American idea of the land of plenty and opportunity turned into the idea of the land of excess and indulgence.
Maybe we're all making each other fatter.
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