The author of the very hungry caterpillar has just died but is it time to ban the book. I believe it is responsible for the obesity crisis we're facing. My evidence? Look at photos of people pre-caterpillar days and they're all fit and healthy. Children raised in the 70s and 80s reading the book grew up with an "eat everything in sight" attitude and are now fat adults passing on their gluttonous habits to their fat kids.
Worse still in the book he becomes a beautiful butterfly. Now we have fatties swanning around with a "we're all beautiful" attitude.
Thanks to obesity related conditions like diabetes and heart disease the hungry caterpillar is responsible for more deaths than mein kampf.
crucifying this harmless caterpillar, maybe he has Prader-Willi syndrome, we dont know the context of why his appetite exists, there just saved the book, lol. joking aside
kids and young adults are way heavier now in the last 10 years then of any other generation, this is the first generation as told by drs to probably not outlive their parents. this isn't a book issue its a parenting issue. with the rise of the internet people got lazy. parents got lazy so many are on auto pilot. i grew up playing sports, running and playing all day long especially in the summer time, where i live you dont see a kid out all day everyone including the parents are on the internet or streaming, playing games etc. it was a few years ago where gym class was optional? when i was younger you had to pass gym class to get to the next grade. it was NOT optional. 70s,80s,90s kids grew up with being active we didn't have the technology that you kids have now and if it was our parent slimited it maybe an hour between each sibling after homework and chores were done. and if you were fat it was not celebrated as it is today. things shifted in 2000s with increase use of the internet by younger generation, cell phones etc.
it is the parents job to act like a responsible parent -to prep meals and teach kids to be out exercising and showing that by example instead of getting fast food, some people get it 3 times a day. laziness in parenting is the problem most of the times, a small percentage is actual medical issues diagnosed. did you ever hear the term skinny fat it exists even skinny people are outta shape and eat unhealthy a lot of the time. i grew up active and i have continued that as an adult. it all goes back to the parents and their lack of taking responsibility and pure laziness. can't keep blaming pop culture, books, whatever else on something that should be occurring in the home.
@user1245322 we grew up with cookie monster correct? how many of us have an addiction to cookies? evil kenevil, was big in my house i grew up with brothers they are 70s and 80s kids, how many of us wanted to jump of the roof of the house with a crotch rocket? yet did not? its all about parental units acting like parents and their parenting style. they set the tone for a child growing up
Hope about we stop the act of banning anything? Why ban something if it doesn't think the same as you? aren't people allowed to have different opinions anymore? Ohh wait the sensorship thats going on already... I liked that book cause it showed beauty can come from challenges..
I'm not familiar with the book. First, there's nothing wrong with eating healthy food. I don't think kids will over eat that. It's junk food and sugary drinks that are the problem.
The other thing is, I think kids started becoming more and more sedentary in the 80s. Probably more so now days. Overprotective, helicopter parents, safety Nazis running schools and government agencies. Can't have children riding bikes, walking to school alone, or playing while unsupervised. Better to hand them a smart phone or game controller. Can't have them scraping their knee or coming in contact with dirt.
You might have a point, but society in general grew fond of "acceptance" of every and any kind, all the while forgetting the concepts of consequence and the oh-so-needed value of logic. This book (that I never put my hands on) might have sown some seeds for this braindeadness, but I very much doubt that it's the main culprit behind the will of todays fatsos to die young. That, and banning literature is something that should never happen. Last times that happened, gulag existed, or a whole category of people faced genocide.
I also find it very offensive because the caterpillar is a symbol of white oppression and pro-capitalism, he hordes the food for himself while the hungry get hungrier. We should burn the book and replace it with The Commie Commie Caterpillar, instead of eating the food he surrenders it to the state and lets himself and his family starve to death, so at least they're equal in their hunger. We will distribute this book to every schoolchild and force -- uhm, I mean, "encourage" -- parents to read it to their kids no less than 20 times a day. Then we'll finally live in a utopia where caterpillars acknowledge their caterpillar privilege, and surrender their need for sustenance such that Big Brother may look down kindly upon them.
White privilege? Totally disagree with this reading. The caterpillar eats whatever food he wants without first earning the money to buy that food. If anything, he represents the second class citizens who think the world owes them a piece of fried chicken because they're colored.
I'm 100% certain that I have a better case for obesity. 1) Highly processed, high sugar, high fat content foods... and... the source of all obesity that's non-genetically related...
2) VIDEO GAMES !!!
Read anything you want - you won't get fat. Until you ban ALL video games, the world will continue to become obese !!!
So there !!!
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Hungry Hungry's red face is incredibly disrespectful to native Americans, and the metaphor of crawling all over the land and eating is a painful reminder to our native American friends that we too were once Hungry Hungry Caterpillars.
😂😂 I read the book when I was younger and I’m not obese. If we start removing books for stupid reasons like this, it would just lead to a mass absence in books. Also, can’t believe you compare it to mein kampf and hitler, wtf
lol if u think a childrens story is encouraging children to wanna be fat/... jus smh lol, they eat cos they like food... not because there inspired by some fat caterpilla like it is their role model, its no ones role model LMAO
they probably forget about the story as soon as its been read, they dont sit around thinking "hm, oneday when i groiw up i wanna be jus like that fat ass"
dude theyre gonna cancel everything if they take over, soon their will be a limit on how much oxygen you can breathe a day, fuck these retarded snowflakes dawg, they need to all be round up in a big pit in the ground somewhere and all set on fire
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