"at a time when the world is being stalked by the twin spectres of obesity on one hand and food riots on the other, i was absolutely appalled to learn that SG is to play host to a competitive eating contest." William Laws as written in his entry in Life! he was even calling the authorities to BAN it immediately
o.. come on, yet another writer kicking a big fuss again. i can't believe he used the words 'appalled' and 'ban' . can u sense his shocking feelings upon knowing the competition.
it is just a food eating competition. how much food will we waste just for the novelty value of this competition. i doubt by banning it, we will actually encourage pple not to waste food. drop by at steam boat buffet restaurant on a wkend, see how much food have we wasted. i think those wastage can be enough for a eating competition. i think Mr Laws should spend more effort on educating his kids, nephews, frens' kids... blah blah not to waste food rather than pinning his hope that the authorities will ban it.
ok.. there is another writer who said that 'let's not encourage undesirable habits particularly at a time when money is hard to come by and food is scarce'. haha.. i can't imagine there is a person whom after watching the competition will go to the hawker centre and order 20 bowls of noodles and try to finish them with 20 mins..
since both wanna care much for the Earth and Singapore, i suggest that they look at the F1 race that we gonna hold in the coming month. how much resources are we going to waste? at a time when the world is stalked by high petrol prices due to shortage, are we gonna to waste more by using them on 20 race cars to go round and round the city for the thrill and entertainment purposes?
are we going to say that cos the F1 going to bring in millions and worldwide coverage for the nation, so all the wastage of resources are worth it? hmm... and cos food eating competition doesn't bring in much money for us and will 'waste food', so we shld ban it ?
come on, i rarely see a domestic eating competition or a race in singapore. despite of the depleting resources that we have left in the world, i think Singapore shld hold them
