Britain's Local Government Association (LGA), which represents 400 nationwide councils, has declared that social services may need to intervene if British parents cannot keep their kids from gaining weight. "The LGA said Britain was fast becoming the "obesity capital of the world" and the increasing weight of the average citizen was pushing up council tax bills." (Woops! We thought the US was already the obesity capital of the world ...) At any rate, whether they win or we do, the LGA "added that councils would have to take action against parents who put their children's health at risk, with the ultimate sanction of taking the fattest boys and girls into care."
Good people of the world, what does this foretell? First they make us fat, thanks to food-industry additives, TV advertising, video games and cutting gym class from school time. Then they take us from our parents. What will happen in their "care"? It is said that at age 18 autistic children become wards of the state, and the rate of autism is skyrocketing. (See the wonderful new video "Vaccine Nation.") The state is evidently considered the best manager of human beings afflicted in various ways. Will the "ward of the state" age drop for the autistic as more handicap occurs? Read The Independent's article on obese British children here, a denial by the Brits to an adopting couple (because Dad is too fat to adopt) here, and click to buy "Vaccine Nation" here.)
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