A brilliant mind saw something coming, and this is it:

[AlienGirl]

In a world where Famine is on the way, an unavoidable Hunger on the horizon, a leader arises and does the only thing he can.

Make people love it.

Brave Hero, shouting from the top of a rusted combine, in a field of baked earth: Praise the Glory! All of us, ALL of us, still have clinging to our bodies the evidence of our selfishness and greed. Yes, you may look down on the man with the beer belly, the woman with the welfare hips, and rightly you say to them - you do more than damage your own heart, you damage the heart of your Nation! Do you imagine yourself an island? But all of us, each of us, can still do more and give more.

In your greed and in your weakness, you reached for the ice cream, the hamburgers, the Fluffernutter sandwiches! You wanted to do the right thing, to make yourself a strong cell in the national body, but your will was weak. But now... Fortune smiles, and dries up the sugar, the starch, the dairy cows. This is not a problem. This is Providence, helping all of us to shed the weight of self-indulgence! The invisible hand has come to support us and guide us in our national fast, that the body and spirit of the People will be strong again! To blessed hunger! To fortunate famine! To a beautiful, strong, healthy future!

Originally posted by UncleSepp in a discussion about food prices.

Oddly enough, I have heard people express this sentiment when told about the shrinking amount of products in packages.

The only difference from Sepp's semi-absurd "bizarre movie plot" is the people don't even need a leader to tell them to think this way; they come to these conclusions on their own.

Tucker

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Tucker, before it comes to that...

This country will be a smoking ruin.

[AlienGirl]

3. I dunno, the mass of posters on Fark echoed this sentiment

They didn't even need a leader to tell them that this was the response they should have.

Tucker

[panader0]

2. Now I'm confused. An earlier post said eating less makes you live longer

[AlienGirl]

4. Yes, and the Glorious Corporations are helping us achieve this goal...

[sam sarrha]

5. there is a point of diminishing returns...

[Overseas]

6. Gramm told me it was funny that only the USA had poor people that were fat and to stop whining !

So now he and John Sidney McCain III are going to help me slim down?

[spag68]

7. Less food

This reminds me of the one I refer to as FAT BASTARD with Six chins. You know him, he's the one that got the 400 million retirement bonus from Exxon. I suppose he will have enough food no matter what happens.

[DCKit]

8. The love child of Baron Harkonen and Jabba the Hut?

Yeah, he'll be alright. He's got a whole planet to eat. Maybe two.

[undergroundpanther]

9. fat phobic crap

is all it is.

Fat phobia is nothing but middle ages "morality"leftover from the dark ages ..the sin of gluttony dressed up as a public health issue.
Guess what? THIN people die too. Some quite young.And fat people sometimes have less risk of certain health issues than THIN people do.

Calories in and out diet bullshit does NOT explain why some get fat and why some do not.
I have seen thin people eat like horses all very unhealthy shit,but no one notices THAT bad habit because it's a skinny doing it.
It's a double standard.

A helluva lot of people take medicines and guers what the most common side effect is??? :weight gain.
Also environmental factors.Food additives,like MSG is used to fatten up rats for experiments on obesity,go figure it might just contribute to the obesity issue,Diet drinks Aspartame can cause weight gain,HFCS can too and it's everywhere.
pollution can cause inflammation and some are researching the idea fat could be a form of inflammation.People began to get fat in bigger numbers in the 70's,in the 70's industrial pollutants began to begin to reach a saturation point,and get attention that they could be fucking up people's health.Then there are intestinal flora balance,viruses,metabolism disorders, emotional factors,trauma factors..the list goes on and on.
Nobody really KNOWS why people get fat. Or why diets for 98 percent of people FAIL.
Yet the fat phobic moralistic ass hats just love to give unwanted advice,blame,scapegoat a fattie to feel good.And I am sick of it.
This fat phobic christian nazi jerk needs to SHUT the FUCK UP.

[AlienGirl]

10. This wasn't areal individual yet, but the (un)reasoning has been showing up online