Letters to the Editor
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Put The Plastic Fork Down
I'm at the same weight as in high school. I eat things out of plastic containers. Yet, my peers grow ever wideways. I've noticed that they still obligingly clean their plates, just like their depression-era parents insisted they do. I also see them picking up seconds. I see people in restaurants, dinner parties, picnics and buffets.
My overweight peers think I am uncharitable and claim it is genetics, big bones, slow metabolism, or Big Agriculture and that I am a Bad Person for pointing out the food-fat connection. I've been lectured to by folks to not bring up the subject in conversation, as if I were some small child who shouts "pee pee" in church.
I did do an experiment where I stopped feeding my pets corn products and they did lose weight. I pointed that out to my friends who insisted that corn on the cob, Doritos, tortilla chips and so on were not "bad" corn and that the "bad" corn was somehow squirreled away in products that those poor, dear, low income people were being force fed by Big Agriculture.
But, go ahead. Give them another talking point. I hate plastics because they pollute. If you can tell other people to do so by telling them they'll lose weight, that's fine. They'll tell you that somehow, magically, Trader Joe's prepared meals in plastic are OK, because its, you know "organic".