As if any further proof was needed that world is unbalanced economically we today learn that the Brits, like the yanks natch, are turning into lardy dumb asses like never before. Since 2003 the obesity rate has risen to 38% in adults. This is mostly down to the fact that poor quality food is cheap, glamorous and thrust upon a nation that must consume, quite literally, in order to have any meaningful purpose in life. The English now eat junk food and drink Irn Bru 32 to confirm their existence – I eat therefore I am.
All the major supermarkets are so fiercely competitive that it makes food cheap and desirable meaning the population buys and eats too much. Prices are low, thanks to the poor on the other side of the world, and it was always going to follow that there would be some kind of pretty obvious catch so I wonder why the government is surprised, indeed shocked, that we are all now fat. If we stop consuming then the British economy grinds to a halt so The Man doesn’t want anybody to stop eating/drinking/shopping anytime soon and there unfolds some bizarre game of saying one thing but doing another. Or hypocrisy for short. Tony Blair worries about how fat we all are whilst rocking his man tits and gut on a yacht all summer. Do as I say not as I do.
If we, the British, don’t want our society to break down we’d better eat like pigs. Go out now and eat some pies because our comfortable lives depend on it.