Sunday, September 18, 2011

Countries' Eating Habits

A staple topic amongst anti-whaling hate mongers is to criticize the eating habits of other cultures.


Now, unfortunately in this instance, the perpetrator is from America. Another fine instance of why people don't like rude entitled Americans that think everyone should speak English and bow down to crypto-racist ideologies like Manifest Destiny (which runs through the American Environmentalist crowd).

So let's do a quick review here. I've included some other common countries in the Cultural Imperialist movement just to demonstrate that this trend is hardly restricted to the Land of the Free.

October 27 addition:
     Convicted felon, Pete Bethune, provides another fine example, as he promotes a racist slogan of "Save a Whale, Harpoon a fat JAP". This is an interesting modification of another common racist slogan in the ANZAC lowlands, adding the word "fat". Amazingly, not only are they racist, but completely unaware of eating habits in their own country and Japan.[ /end addition]

Obesity Rates as per Nation Master
# 1          United States:      30.6%     
# 2         Mexico:     24.2%    
# 3         United Kingdom:     23%      

# 4         Slovakia:     22.4%    
# 5         Greece:     21.9%      
# 6         Australia:     21.7%    
# 7         New Zealand:     20.9%      

# 8         Hungary:     18.8%    
# 9         Luxembourg:     18.4%    
# 10         Czech Republic:     14.8%    
# 11         Canada:     14.3%    
# 12         Spain:     13.1%    
# 13         Ireland:     13%    
# 14         Germany:     12.9%    
= 15         Portugal:     12.8%    
= 15         Finland:     12.8%    
# 17         Iceland:     12.4%    
# 18         Turkey:     12%    
# 19         Belgium:     11.7%    
# 20         Netherlands:     10%    
# 21         Sweden:     9.7%    
# 22         Denmark:     9.5%    
# 23         France:     9.4%    
# 24         Austria:     9.1%    
# 25         Italy:     8.5%    
# 26         Norway:     8.3%    
# 27         Switzerland:     7.7%    
 = 28         Korea    3.2%
= 28         Japan:     3.2%     





Meat Consumption Per Capita
#1 Denmark        145.9kg per person
#2 New Zealand    142.1kg per person
#5 USA        124.8kg per person
#8 Spain        118.6kg per person
#12 Canada        108.1kg per person
#13 Ireland        106.3kg per person
#14 France        101.1kg per person
#18 Argentina    97.6kg per person
#21 Austria        94.1kg per person
#22 Portugal    91.1kg per person
#24 Italy        90.4kg per person
#25 Netherlands    89.3kg per person
#30 Belgium        86.1kg per person
#33 Brazil        82.4kg per person
#34 Germany        82.1kg per person
#35 UK        79.6kg per person
...
...
#85 Japan        43.9kg per person


The citizens in Leilani's country of America consume 2.84 times more meat than Japanese.
The rate of obesity in America is almost 10 times higher than Japan.
And she has the gall to criticize the eating habits of another culture? She should be taking notes and then a flight back home to confront people here about such issues.

And just for the icing on the cake...

Life Expectancy by Country
1
Monaco
89.73
2011 est.


5
Japan
82.25
2011 est.

7
Singapore
82.14
2011 est.



8
Hong Kong
82.04
2011 est.



9
Australia
81.81
2011 est.



10
Italy
81.77
2011 est.

12
Canada
81.38
2011 est.



13
France
81.19
2011 est.



14
Spain
81.17
2011 est.



15
Switzerland
81.07
2011 est.



16
Sweden
81.07
2011 est.



17
Israel
80.96
2011 est.

23
New Zealand
80.59
2011 est.

27
Germany
80.07
2011 est.



28
United Kingdom
80.05
2011 est.

30
Greece
79.92
2011 est.

32
Austria
79.78
2011 est.

35
Netherlands
79.68
2011 est.

37
Belgium
79.51
2011 est.

44
European Union
78.82
2010 est.

49
Portugal
78.54
2011 est.



50
United States
78.37
2011 est.

56
Chile
77.70
2011 est.



68
Argentina
76.95
2011 est.

72
Mexico
76.47
2011 est.



73
Uruguay
76.21
2011 est.

124
Brazil
72.53
2011 est.

127
Peru
72.47
2011 est.



145
Iraq
70.55
2011 est.

3 comments:

  1. stick it to those yanks who think they rule the world.

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  2. Food culture?? Seriously, wow! I didnt know that Japabese food culture extended to Antarctic waters!
    Halfay across the globe doesnt count as traditional food culture.

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  3. Minke whales live both in the Pacific and the Antarctic oceans.
    Your knowledge of whales seems quite low for somebody who claims to care about them so much.

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