Obesity is linked to more than just food and I wish the powers that be would understand this. I don't care what you do or how little you eat we live in a totally automated world. We ride everywhere, we have remotes for the TV, to control the ceiling fans, to open and close drapes and so one. Gas powered everything mowers. hedge clippers, etc. We are no longer hunter/gathers, we are no longer an agrarian society, we are no longer a society where most of its inhabitants do manual labour jobs. Most do not take part in outdoor activities the tube, PC and video games have taken most of that away.  So why would not obesity be out of control? Hitting the gym for an hour isn't enough to trim us back to the days before automation. People of my grandparents generation work long, physical days and weight control wasn't an issue.

I am also tired of hearing it is fast food and food producers faults for obesity and child obesity. Come now take responsibility for yourselves no one puts a gun to your head to fill your stomach day after day of fast food, pizza hut and the like. And it's up the parents to control what their children put in their mouths not McDonald's, not Wendy's, not pizza hut and not the food manufacturers themselves. As long as people buy into their garbage food they will continue to produce it and not change a thing. You and you along make the choices and to blame others is a lack of personal responsibility and weakness.

Personally, I eat meat sparingly, I haven't eaten at a fast food chain in years, I grow my own veggies, I don't use gas powered lawn tools I have an old rotary blade push mower and manual hedge clippers and edger. And while I don't work as my parents or grand parents did I made the choice to be more active I made the choice in what I put into my body I MADE THE CHOICE and if I do things to myself I AM TO BLAME.

And you can't trust government with your safety look how many times here in the U.S. tainted food has made it into the market places? Just recently it was suppose to be tomatoes, then it wasn't, then it was fresh spinach, then lettuce and so on. I agree with Stewer there are far too many additives in our food but until we as consumers stop buying processed foods and demand changes from the food producers it will not change and government is in no hurry to change that. Again, responsibility falls upon yourself and one shouldn't blame others for one's results.

Hells bells people we can't even be civil to each other on this planet so how does one expect people to be civil to animals? Just my take on this but I am just one person.

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