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June 08, 2006
Fat livers lead to fat heads
This article describes the push to ban foie gras (as the article notes, French for "fat liver"). The ducks are fed through tubes in large quantities so that their livers enlarge. MWB is opposed to this practice. All the way. But we're opposed to 99.9% of the practices utilized in the animals-as-food production industry, and like one of the interviewees in this story notes, where does it end?
I'd like people to stop kosher methods of food slaughter, fur coats, caged chickens, and god only knows what else that goes on behind the closed doors of said food production. But an MWB opinion does not earn our right to mandate that opinion via legislation. Fuh thuh luv 'a gawd, if our opinion translated into reality, here's a sample of how the world would look:
- Japanese cars would not be allowed in the left lane (super-cool Infinity SUVs allowed)
- Marijuana use and abuse would be legal, mandatory, even, for the most annoying US Citizens (should we start with Ann Coulter or Hillbilly Clinton?)
- Fat people would not be allowed to buy low-rise jeans
- Writing checks at the grocery store would be a death penalty offense
Any single group, entity, think tank, whatever, shouldn't be able to legislate our lives because god knows what would happen. Now I realize the world changes described by MWB are quite enticing, but some might find them a bit extreme, just as it is extreme to legislate a single food item because a handful of activists don't like the method.
Whether it's by suing the hell out of McDonald's for "making" people fat (as though that company had a tube down the fattie's necks like the ducks) or by illegalizing foie gras, the imposition of left-wing or right-wing beliefs is a dangerous, moss-covered slope and we're screamin' down it more all the time.
Posted by Michela at June 8, 2006 08:00 AM
Comments
Here's a bit of legislation for you: You are not allowed to take an elevator for less than three floors, that is unless you are handicapped.
Posted by: Marla at June 9, 2006 06:32 PM
I love that law! And...No way! If you're handicapped, you have no business being off the ground floor. :)
Posted by: Michela at June 12, 2006 10:08 AM
Seriously, I work on the 12th Floor and am sick & tired of watching all these fatties get on the elevator at the 2nd or 3rd Floor, completely ruining my straight shot down to the ground floor. Here's a thought, maybe their asses wouldn't be so wide if they actually took the stairs every now and then!
Posted by: Marla at June 12, 2006 02:15 PM
Oh man, how many times a day I've said the same thing. And it's not just fat females; I can't tell you how many punks take the elevator one GD story to the 2nd floor here. How much of a lazy punk bum do you have to be to take an elevator one floor when you're a 21 year old guy. And shit, they're so unimportant it's not as though they have a laptop, a crackberry, and a treo to drag upstairs, like yours truly:). But yeah, oh how many times I've thought "Your ass might not be splitting double stitched seams if you took the stairs cupcake."
And returning shopping carts to the proper area. How many fatties would be less fat if they just followed these two simple rules; take the stairs whenever possible and return shopping carts to the proper place. I mean, they obviously spend a lot of time at the grocery store...that's a lot of potential walking!!!!
Posted by: Michela at June 12, 2006 03:52 PM
Oh man, don't even get me started on all those loser 20 somethings. I encounter them as well in my building. They stroll onto the elevator on the 2nd Floor - with their metro jeans on - and have the audacity to be the first ones off the elevator, not even letting the gorgeous brunette (moi) have the chance to exit. They are so rude! Where are their mothers? They need to be slapped for raising such rude boys.
Posted by: Marla at June 14, 2006 09:14 AM