UN food agency chief takes dig at obese

UN food agency chief Jacques Diouf said today that billions of dollars are being wasted on feeding obese people in the West while millions starve around the world.

"No one understands ... how over-consumption by obese people in the world costs 20 billion dollars each year," the head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation told an international summit on the food price crisis.

On top of this, he added, there are "100 billion dollars in indirect costs resulting from premature deaths and associated diseases."

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source: mens fitness

 

We all know that the magazine Men's Fitness has a carnivorous agenda, however, this month they have an exclusive interview with Vegan UFC fighter Mac Danzig.  We've spared you the grief of having to go to their site and look at a Wendy's banner at the bottom of the interview by reprinting it here:  

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Mac Danzig - UFC Fighter

MF: Your path to being a vegan started when you cut out milk in 1999. And that was due to an allergy?

MD: I would always get these inner ear infections and never knew what the problem was. Sometimes allergies develop as you get older, or they can get worse. I was right out of high school and I was getting vertigo real bad from the infections. I did some research and found out that milk allergies can cause those problems, so I cut out all dairy products and I haven't had a single problem since.

What made you decide to stop eating meat?

When I was 16, I cut out beef and pork. I just got to the point where I wanted to minimize my intake of animal products. I knew about factory farming and the theories that meat wasn't safe, but I subscribed to the theory that if you were doing something athletic, you needed to have protein, so I kept eating chicken and fish. But then in 2004, I got to the point where I was sick of eating chicken. It started grossing me out for some reason. I was about a month out from a fight and I decided I was going to cut out all meat. I was working with a trainer who was vegan and he helped me make the switch. I won that fight and went on a 12-fight winning streak. And [not eating meat] made it really easy to cut weight for that fight.