FAT AND KICKED

Based on trends, half of the adults in the United States will be obese by 2030 unless the government makes changing the food environment a policy priority.

At the end of the Five Books of Moshe, the seminal work called Torah housing the three levels of Oral Tradition: Talmud-Law, Midrash-Story and Yesod-Secret, is written, They got fat and they kicked. This passage refers to the End of Days – our present predicament.

What is bloated is the economy. People are getting fatter because our economy is based on consumption; a hundred years ago, consumption was considered a disease, the generic name for tuberculosis – while some are fat the rest waste away in a disparity of income.

While the income of CEOs shot up 400 percent, the average wage earner went down nine percent. What is pushing this feeding craze that threatens to shake the financial foundations, sending the world into rampant instability and failure? Right-wing religion.

President Clinton before leaving office signed a bill that makes it illegal to have zoning laws against religion – they can buy up everything and turn America into a Christian State, God forbid. Religion, particularly Christian religion, is far from God.