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Old Dec 11, 2017 | 10:10 pm
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Originally Posted by Troopers
Yeah, but ppl don't think about that way as they're not paying for it mid-flight.



No need to exaggerate...it doesn't help support your position.
I suggest you try the flight from Samoa to Hawaii. It is not an exaggeration to state that the airline provides a needlessly high fat, high sodium meal on a flight which serves the world's most morbidly obese region.

Steerage class is given Stir Fried Chicken with "Vegetables" and Steamed White Rice. While business class aka glorified economy, is served options like Ground Beef and Portuguese Pork Sausage Meatloaf, with Homestyle Gravy with Sauteed (aka fried) Mushrooms and Potatoes.
Those meals are wrong, especially for a region where heart disease, diabetes and where other obesity related disease is epidemic. The airline has the temerity to describe its meals as " Award Winning In-Flight Dining". Award from who? It is certainly not going to come from the CDC or the national council on nutrition.

It is irresponsible to serve white rice and fried food to a plane that will most likely be carrying a pax load with at least 50% obese or overweight and/or suffering from chronic disease. (And that is being generous because Samoa has an obesity/overweight rate of approximately 95%, with an excess of 75% of the population defined as being medically obese of which more than half is morbidly obese. More than 30% of the population has type II diabetes.

Samoa is an impoverished region where not much effort is put into diet and nutrition education, so people are not informed as to the prudent choices they should make. It therefore is a civic duty for a company to behave in a responsible manner and to show some leadership in the control of the deadly epidemic of obesity.
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