We’ve all seen the graphs and data of rising obesity. People get riled up about it. I have no problem with people living by their values when their choices affect only themselves.

I pick up litter daily and hear from Workshop alumni and podcast guests who pledge to pick up litter. They sometimes cry when their hands-on practical experience leads them to see and consciously process what they usually look past instead of at: there’s way more litter than they expect. What we see in the U.S. is nothing compared to the places we export our waste to.

The packaging no doubt correlates with the transportation and industrial processing that pollutes and depletes yet more. Buying doof drives that systems. Buying doof harms people. I think it’s safe to say it kills people as surely as second-hand smoke does and I bet we’ll soon see scientific data backing up that supposition of mine.

Manhattan may have lower rates of obesity than the rest of the country, but there’s plenty. I associate obesity with doof consumption. I wouldn’t be surprised if some people became obese eating only fresh local produce, and whole grains and legumes from bulk. After all, people were obese before doof. Still, studies I’ve read say a lot of obese people today became obese from consuming a lot of doof. I conclude that obesity correlates like smoking indoors does with hurting third parties without their consent.

Maybe I’m wrong, though. Can anyone tell me what fraction of obese people don’t consume doof versus mostly doof? I’m not saying non-obese people don’t consume it. I just see a lot of doof packaging polluting everywhere and lots of obesity.

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