The Newest Witch Hunt

Drudge’s exercising of poetic license this morning reads “Obesity Kills Child Age Three.”  A headline such as that naturally piques my interest, so I click the link and it leads to a story with the headline “Children in Britain ‘choking on their own fat’, says obesity report.”  I’m not quite certain which headline has taken more license.  Be that as it may, I read the article with an eye on where the blame must lie.  Drudge states it is obesity which killed the three year old, the article headline states liquid fat is to blame.  But the article quotes a British parlimentary committee report which states the blame should lie with,

“The report slammed the British government, the National Health Service, food manufacturers and advertisers for not doing enough to improve the nation’s health and raise awareness of the risks of being overweight or obese.”

Ah, the wonders of collective guilt.  I’m somewhat surprised the British parlimentary committee couldn’t make the obesity guilt more inclusive, you know, to include the everyday man on the street.

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