21 May 2008
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices

This is so patently ridiculous that it has to go into humor - although I daresay the authors wouldn't appreciate it's placement.

Two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass -- and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat. 'Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,' write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

(link) [Slashdot]

20:01 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link

Brace yourself for barbecue shock

Our chickens are indeed coming home to roost ...

Food inflation is the highest in almost two decades, driven by record prices for oil, gas and mounting global demand for staples such as wheat and corn, and for proteins such as chicken. And that's reaching into Americans' backyards.

(link) [CNN.com]

19:57 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

Jury: Ex-cop lied about 92-year-old's shooting

Ever see Training Day? Still think it was fiction?

A jury on Tuesday convicted an Atlanta police officer of lying to cover up the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid.

(link) [CNN.com]

06:09 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link