Fats are eating through our planet Hello to the greatest community in our enduring battle against this great chubby plague.  The title is not a metaphor nor is it hyperbole; it is a useful model to understand how destructive fats are to our planet. Fatties are eating through the Earth. This idea is largely informed by the worldview Spaceship Earth. In summary, the Earth is a vessel traveling through space equipped with limited resources manned by a crew comprise of the entire human race. This worldview emphasizes the importance of maintaining our ship and justly distributing its resources to take care of our crew.  The Fat Menace is eating through our resources at a mind-boggling pace jeopardizing the long term health of Spaceship Earth. Fats create an unending pressure for cheaper, more processed, and lower effort calories. Intensive agriculture is a practice of industrial agriculture which demands ever increasing yields out of available land resources. This method of farming produces unhealthy monocultures (the Great Plains wasn’t always one big corn field) that require massive amounts of ground water, pesticide, and soil degradation. What is done with this corn? We process it into syrup, pump that syrup into carbonated water, which is then guzzled by an underclass of fat slobs. The rest of the corn we feed to another kind of pigs, actual swine. We torture millions of animals condemning them to a life of immobility, eating, and shitting (who else does that remind you of?) so that they can gain as much weight as possible before they are killed. These farming and husbandry practices create lakes of shit, rivers of pesticide, and ever worsening diseases. Information on these issues is pulled from the Union of Concerned Scientists stance on Industrial Agriculture. We have enough to food to feed the world and instead we dedicate it to…what? To the production of Doritos Loaded, a neon nacho cheese snack coated in a Doritos crust. These calories don’t go to feeding the hungry, they go to make Lays Cheddar Bacon Mac&Cheese potato chips, or the bacon poutine ones or the garlic bread ones. We’re producing Watermelon flavored Oreos which don’t even begin to resemble anything your body recognizes as food. Looking at this list of the worst processed foods for you reads like fatties’ grocery list. Things You Should Never Buy: potato chips, soda, chicken nuggets, processed meats, sugary cereals, granola bars, cookies, etc. We aren’t developing an American culinary tradition. We’re killing our citizens in the name of consumption. This is the reason that Ranch dressing translates to American Flavor. Ethnic American food is synonymous with processed, high-fructose, garbage. Collectively our crew has to work to support this burgeoning gorge-oisie (or roll-etariat). To repeat some well understood statistics one third of Americans are obese (106 milllion) the next third is also overweight, another 68 million obese in China, and another 62.6 million in India. These fatties are not productive workers helping to sustain our ship, they are the losers on My 600 lb life or for the UK On Benefits: Too Fat to Work who collect state welfare riding off everyone else’s hard work.  Obesity is more than just a public health crisis it is a corrosive influence on human civilization. Our downfall will be the slow weakening of humanity into mindless eaters whose lives amount to little more than the pigs they eat entertained by bright screens. Be better, please. You’ve found yourself here, don’t be ashamed of your thoughts. It’s a tragedy that this is the only honest forum discussing the fat problem. Keep the conversation going, our spaceship depends on it.