For years now I’ve been saying that the liberals will eventually be using environmentalism, and alarmism over global warming, to regulate every single aspect of our lives.  The EPA has already ruled that the very air we exhale is a threat to “public health and welfare.”  Now those extra pounds you’re carrying are a threat too.

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.

So those of us who are a little overweight are now going to be targeted by the government.  They need to get us thin not just for our own good, but to save the planet too.

And you know what that will mean.  Endless amounts of government manipulation of what we eat and how we conduct our lives in general.  More government in our lives.

Think that sounds absurd?  Consider that the state of New York is already considering policies to diminish the consumption of salt and sugary drinks.

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