soft Holodomor is coming this way... maybe a hard one
This may not be the right thing to say, but Americans are the most obese people on the planet. (People in some Polynesian island countries, such as Samoa, Tonga, or Fiji might surpass this in percentages, but those are very small countries.) Morbidly obese people were regarded as freakish and afflicted 40+ years ago --- I had both an aunt and a cousin who were morbidly obese --- but nowadays, you can go to any Walmart in the land on any good day and find at least a dozen people who would have to weigh
at least 300 pounds, the operative term here being "at least". Truly, in 21st-century America, 300 is the new 200.
If famine does come, could not obese people just eat less, a minimal daily diet sufficient to stay alive, and leave more food for those who need it? I would say the majority of Americans,
myself included, could well afford to lose weight, some of us,
quite a bit. (I am not morbidly obese but I could do with being far more svelte than I am.)
During the Holodomor, I don't think you had huge numbers of fat Ukrainians walking around. Obesity was the exception rather than the norm in those days.
As chastisements go --- assuming this
is a chastisement --- it's pretty velvet. We have electricity, we have water,
for the moment there is a certain level of government protection of many jobs and incomes (that can't last forever), we have Internet connectivity that allows us to assist at Holy Mass virtually (not the same thing as being there, but better than nothing), and again,
for the moment people cannot be evicted from their homes and apartments for non-payment. Gasoline is dirt-cheap, which is a good thing for those who must drive. Even the weather is generally mild.
Is it possible that the good God has given us a far gentler chastisement than we deserve?
Topic: The US Food Supply Is Being Cut (Read 358 times)