AP/Seatle P-I: Health experts at the International Congress on Obesity said that the obesity pandemic will increase conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, overwhelm health resources globally, and cause this generation of children to die before their parents. Although experts suggest that there should be restrictions placed on advertising junk food to children, they also acknowledge that such a change is highly unlikely, given the power of food lobbyists in America.
Taipei Times (via AP): A UK-born Chinese man may have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human version of mad-cow.
Guardian (UK): An editorial (from July that we missed) by ethicist and animal-rights proponent Peter Singer will make you think twice about eating factory meat ever again — if you can bear to read it.
Midland Reporter-Telegram: A misleadingly headlined Texas version of an AP story says that chefs are less concerned with an ingredient’s taste rather than with whether it’s organic, but the quotations that follow from chefs indicate otherwise.
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