Is it immoral to be fat?

Its definitely immoral to waste food.

there is not a 100x surplus of food to feed the world, that is lies. There simply isn't enough to go around yet us westerners ignore the cries of the hungry and stuff ourselves

I don't think its entirley fair to state that there is ample food in say... Africa. The country lies in an unfortunate geographical location in terms of its ability to produce food. Droughts are common, pests such as locust cause frquent food shortages and the climate is certainly not conducive to agriculture.

If not a question of morality then certainly one of empathy and ethics. Perhaps we could all stand to gain by allowing the missfortunes of others to affect our own lives. e.i. On principal not eating such vast quantities because of the famine elswhere.

Do you blame Western waste for African poverty?

It is immoral, just as how vegetarians who choose not to eat meat for ethical reasons are immoral...and that is not mentioning the poor moral choices it takes to become fat eg. lack of self control etc.

Western trade agreements are probably the root cause. It's almost impossible for Africa to compete in the market place due to treaties like the EU CAP.

It is immoral, just as how vegetarians who choose not to eat meat for ethical reasons are immoral...and that is not mentioning the poor moral choices it takes to become fat eg. lack of self control etc.

Do you realise that if we were all vegetarian that there would be a lot of food left over because we wouldn't be feeding a substantial amount of food we grow to the animals being bred for meat, which results in a loss of energy (as it always does when we go up the food chain) or using land that could grow crops for rearing animals on?
It wouldn't solve the current problem, because the main problem is lack of access to food rather than lack of food, but if there was a lack of food then vegetarianism would be the moral choice and eating meat would be the immoral one.

one cannot survive on chips alone. It isn't healthy.

You don't think of obesity as being a problem vis-a-vis starvation in, e.g., Africa in terms of food. Think of it in terms of money.

Anyone who buys, let's say, a £250,000 Ferrari, could, with the same amount of money, feed hundreds of children a year. Let's call him the Ferrari guy.

There's another guy, the fat guy, who gets, let's say, 1000kcal of excess food per day. That would be something like 2 double cheeseburgers and a small fries from McDonald's per day. I don't know exactly how that would cost but let's say it costs £4. £4x365=£1460 per year. Not exactly keeping anyone alive. Not even a small child.

Now, using your own arguments, who's more immoral?

And this only a very small example. Imagine how many things we buy that we don't really need. It doesn't have to be about food.

Yeah, potatoes are the only things vegetarians eat...

Funny how I'm perfectly healthy after 9 years.
Also, the Williams sisters and Bob Harper (trainer from The Biggest Loser) would like a word with you.

Do you realise that if we were all vegetarian that there would be a lot of food left over because we wouldn't be feeding a substantial amount of food we grow to the animals being bred for meat, which results in a loss of energy (as it always does when we go up the food chain) or using land that could grow crops for rearing animals on?
It wouldn't solve the current problem, because the main problem is lack of access to food rather than lack of food, but if there was a lack of food then vegetarianism would be the moral choice and eating meat would be the immoral one.

Non-fat people: Yes, it's immoral
Fat people: No, it's not immoral

where do you get your vitamin B from? We can't just eat plants.

More nonsense from the liberal-left

According to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey just 5% of the population or 3 million people classify themselves as vegetarian, so this means the other 95% must eat meat. Are we suffering horrendous food shortages due to prevalence of these selfish carnivors? Nope. In fact we grow so much food that we're able to waste mountains of it without consequence and we enjoy an 'obesity epidemic' to boot!

Western meat eating is responsible for 3rd world hunger......I think I've heard it all now.

B6: green vegetables, eggs, some breakfast cereals and grains
B12: milk, cheese, eggs, some breakfast cereals
B3: eggs, wheat flower
Pantothenic acid: broccoli, tomatoes, potatoes, wholegrains
B2: rice, mushrooms, milk
B1: peas, wholegrain breads, some breakfast cereals
Folic acid: broccoli, sprouts, peas, asparagus, chickpeas

but then you need animals for the milk, eggs and cheese.

If God didn't want us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them out of meat.