The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is worried about “controlling the global obesity epidemic.” A recent report from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on “The State of Food and Agriculture” frets over obesity almost as much as it does malnutrition.
The U.N.’s increasing attention to this issue have conservatives worried about another threat to our sovereignty. “The last thing the world needs is yet another anti-liberty, wealth-redistributing response to an alleged crisis,” says Michael Tennant, a writer for the New American, which is published by the John Birch Society.
The Antiplanner isn’t too worried about the United Nations trying to control what Americans eat. But the same type of UN people who want to “control” obesity inhabit the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies. Moreover, their agenda is often less oriented to fixing obesity than it is toward using obesity as an excuse for regulating land-use patterns.
