Well, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe would like to help. According to the London Times Zimbabwe's new "Obesity Tourism Strategy" aims to "bring in obese tourists from overseas so that they can shed pounds doing manual labour on land seized from white farmers."
The Times quotes a government newspaper:
Tourists can provide labour for farms in the hope of shedding weight while enjoying the tourism experience... 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.”
The Times article notes that this outlandish strategy demonstraits "how far the Mugabe regime has descended into a fantasy world."
Posted by cs at November 29, 2004 10:53 AMOkay, but props to the irony of Zimbabwe trying to get people to pay to become slave labor. I love it!
Posted by: bunny at December 9, 2004 9:18 AM