Love the insight. No one dreams of being fat. Just as no one dreams of getting throat cancer for smoking, or no one dreams of losing their teeth from meth. But what's weird is, obesity ins't being positioned as a health problem as much as it should be. While anorexia and bulimia are treated as being the more important eating disorder to solve, the fact is less than 3% of the population suffers from this kind of disorder. Whereas childhood obesity has skyrocketed to 21%, since 1980. Right now more kids are at risk for at least one disease including heart disease, and diabetes than ever before. Moreover, nearly 70% of American adults are considered obese.
People need to understand obesity is a very real problem. The ads above needs to stay this insightful if we ever want to do anything about it. And believe me, we need to. A study in JAMA has just come out stating that metabolic syndrome (a syndrome associated with obesity that leads to all kinds of diseases like diabetes and heart disease) is quickly becoming the number one cause of disease in America.
The interesting thing though, is that young people only rarely acquire it, as it is a disease that comes with age.
In other words, prevention at a younger age ensures the reduction of the disease at an older age. Surely with all the brilliant educators out there, a program can be developed to educate kids as to why proper weight management is key to a healthy life.
I know there's a lot of talk about body shaming but really, if we continue to give one very real health problem a pass, all we're doing is enabling the very real problem.
If that's the case then we might as well encourage kids to smoke and have unprotected sex so we don't make them feel bad about themselves.
"could be in theory?" So in other words, being insensitive to someone's religious beliefs is okay because it's a lesser issue? Sorry but I completely disagree with that. Not sure if you've heard of what's going on in the Middle East with Christians being executed, but if you are perfectly willing to dismiss that as being no biggie than you need to do a little more research or go to sensitivity school yourself.
Regardless, you can't cry fairness and justice and sensitivity for one group while dismissing another group entirely as that's simple prejudice. or hypocritical or both. You're either fair to all, or you're not.
More importantly you're acting under the fallacy that somehow Bud Light purposefully decided to offend a particular group of people with one headline as part of their overall campaign which I've already demonstrated is semantically not doing what is being proposed by Buzzfeed.
Overreaction is at an all time high but if we're seriously looking at Buzzfeed as being an arbiter of truth or moral compass, we need to reorient ourselves. In my opinion this is a made-up tempest in a teapot designed for views and nothing more than that. And it's worked amazingly well for Buzzfeed.
This campaign has been running for a while and no one questioned its purpose until now. This is a bullshit story cooked up to push the right buttons and nothing more than that. It's the old "when did you stop beating your wife," tactic. Bud Light has to be on the defensive because of some ginned up story by a sleazy media outlet. We should take this for what it is and nothing more.
Bud Light wants to sell beer. Not offend people. The bigger the corporation the more litigious they are, anyway. But hey, Bud Light's apologized, so everyone can take their victory lap.
In the meantime Christians are still being beheaded. Let me know when Buzzfeed writes about that and then I'll be impressed.
Considering the CEO of NPR makes over $658,000 a year and most performer contracts are agreeing to license their music for little or next to nothing on public radio, I would think that they don't see much irony, no.
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