I applaud your excellent post and you already know I agree. I'm all for people not being treated inhumanely solely because they are fat. I'm *not* all for making excuses for Big Ag and the FDA who push this mass food seduction that is damn hard to avoid or resist. I'm *not* for pretending my overweight has a lick of anything to do with something not related to my eating habits. I eat too much. Period. However, to stop that life-long habit, I'm going to need more than the equivalent of a recovering alcoholic being sat down in the middle of a bar and being told that I must have half a beer every day in order to live, but no more if I want to be healthy... But nobody is going to stop me if I have more. We are not gods and we will succumb if temptations are overwhelming and constant. This is why America is growing fatter and fatter and fatter. Did you see Wall-E, the movie? Do you remember what the people on the spaceship were like? That's many of us, just a little exaggerated.