[lbo-talk] Some Americans OK With Being Fat

[Etienne]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:39:07 -0500, "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
said:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
> >Why label healthy people with long lives "overweight"?  --A 
> >political question.  (And the immensely profitable diet and "health" 
> >industry makes a vulgar Marxist explanation pretty compelling.)
> 
> More profitable than the junk food biz?

But the interests of the two are not opposed, quite the contrary. To
Zizek's examples of decaf coffee and chocolate laxatives (and cannabis,
the decaf opium), we could add the MacDonalds salad.
-- 

     "The bourgeois want art voluptuous and life ascetic; the

      reverse would be better."

                                                          -- Adorno
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