Stay slim to save the planet

From Reuters:

LONDON (Reuters) - Overweight people eat more than thin people and are more likely to travel by car, making excess body weight doubly bad for the environment, according to a study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

"When it comes to food consumption, moving about in a heavy body is like driving around in a gas guzzler," and food production is a major source of greenhouse gases, researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in their study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

"We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend toward fatness, and recognize it as a key factor in the battle to reduce (carbon) emissions and slow climate change," the British scientists said.

They estimated that each fat person is responsible for about one tonne of carbon dioxide emissions a year more on average than each thin person, adding up to an extra one billion tonnes of CO2 a year in a population of one billion overweight people.

The European Union estimates each EU citizen accounts for 11 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year.

Beautiful. Now I guess we all should go on restricted calorie diets. Who decides who's fat and how fat? What if food IS an addiction, like any other drug. We do give SSI to addicts, you know, because they're disabled. Commie hero Chairman Mao had ways of dealing with opium addicts: he'd threaten to line them up and shoot them if they didn't quit.

Let's see: persecution of suv drivers, republicans, soldiers, Catholics, smokers, fat people. Did I miss something?