Times Online reports on efforts to solve Zimbabwe’s food crisis;
The so-called Obesity Tourism Strategy was reported last week in The Herald, a government organ whose contents are approved by President Robert Mugabe’s powerful information minister, Jonathan Moyo.
Pointing out that more than 1.2 billion people worldwide are officially deemed to be overweight, the article exhorted Zimbabweans to “tap this potential”.
“Tourists can provide labour for farms in the hope of shedding weight while enjoying the tourism experience,” it said, adding that Americans spent $6 billion a year on “useless” dieting aids. “Tour organisers may promote this programme internationally and bring in tourists, while agriculturalists can employ the tourists as free farm labour. ”
“The tourists can then top it all by flaunting their slim bodies on a sun-downer cruise on the Zambezi or surveying the majestic Great Zimbabwe ruins.”
I can’t believe Scott Ott hasn’t thought of this.
This is pretty funny actually.
What is interesting is that the majority of the worlds obesity occurs in the first world and then predominantly within socio-economically disadvantaged demographics.
I’d like to see more of this kind of tourism.
Perhaps we could organise Ethiopians or starving Somalians to work in let’s say… a KFC or a cookie factory, and then send them back home to resume their normal lives.
For those who have a bit (or a lot) of excess poundage and have had no luck with diets, I suggest the Bataan Death March and POW Camp Diet�.
It works. A former neighbor of mine tried it. He started out at about 285 pounds and got down to 95 pounds.
It seems that the Obesity Tourism Strategy folks have heard about TBDM&PCD�.