A Mississippi state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers - but please, don’t be offended.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22997073/from/ET/
My goodness. My thoughts about this are fairly random….
- Shouldn’t lawmakers be spending their time on more important issues…. reducing crime.
- Deal with health insurance issues first.
- Is the state going to supplement the restaurant’s loss of revenue?
- Spend your state money to give fat people access to a gym.
- Start a program to encourage obese people to participate in state funded organized support groups.
- Not all obese people are fat because they over eat… hmmmm…. let me see… lack of exercise certainly has something to do with it.
- How do you determine who’s obese? *Step on the scale sir… Okay. Now let me check this BMI chart*
- What is the punishment for letting obese people eat in a restaurant? Community service? Time in the pokey?
I could go on… and on…. but I won’t. This is worse than the whole ‘big brother’s watching you’ issue, if you ask my opinion.
Yeah… some things just make ya go hmmmm….
8 responses so far ↓
meredith // February 5, 2008 at 1:20 pm
That seems too bizarre and STUPID to be true?? Oh man… So… let’s see… If an overweight family was flying home and after flight they were STARVING ,but the only restaurant, let alone store that was open was a fast food restaurant, they could potentially be denied food?? WhatEVer.
Thanks for shedding light on this kind of dangerous thinking…
Heather // February 5, 2008 at 5:53 pm
yes I heard about that! Its kind of ridiculous because that isnt teaching people anything.
hanlie // February 6, 2008 at 8:36 am
It’s discrimination against the individual. Surely it would be better to regulate the quality of food that restaurants serve!
If I were a tourist, I wouldn’t be served food in Mississippi! So I’d be spending my tourist dollars elsewhere, thank you very much!
Cindy // February 12, 2008 at 2:31 pm
When I heard the news on this one? My first thought was how in the world are you going to enforce this? What business is going to stick their neck on the line and say no to a patron? I completely agree with all your points and especially, Number 1.
It’s not going to survive. Prohibition comes to mind when I think of proposed laws like this.
Betsy Jacobs // March 13, 2008 at 6:15 am
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totaltransformation // March 14, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Is this supposed to be akin to bars serving drunk people? Oh gosh. Well it proves one thing, there are far too many imbeciles posing as lawmaker pulling in a public roll pay check.
Sarah // March 21, 2008 at 4:30 am
Hope you’re doing well! Would love to see an update.
Rebecca // March 23, 2008 at 2:45 pm
All the lovely folks in Mississippi who are trying to assuage doubts about their viability as an intelligent citizenry probably cringe at such shennanigans.
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