It occurred to me today that there’s a certain irony in the fact that Americans are getting fat and having severe health problems from overeating (School Cafeterias Resist Low-Carb Pressure) while people are starving overseas.
It isn’t the traditional “Oh, we are so blessed that we have food…we should help feed the hungry! *stuff face and ignore hungry*” sort of didactic anecdotal irony, but rather a real irony that comes from the fact that finally, Americans are *dying* from eating too much. See, if they’d just give some of their food away to the poor, maybe both sides would live now. Weird way that the scales have turned…