How anti-fatness crept into the environmental sustainability movement

As more literature and scientific studies link obesity to environmental harms, it becomes yet another way people are stigmatized due to body sizeDuring a university lecture several years ago, we were shown a painting of a 36-year-old man living at the dawn of the 19th century who weighed more than 700lb. His body, a professor said, was an example of "food waste".This framing may seem shocking, as it did to us in the audience, but the idea is not necessarily fringe. There is a growing body of literature focused on fat people as "metabolic food waste". Continue reading...