- Bill would make it illegal to feed the obese (USA Today)
- House Bill No. 282, which was introduced this month, says:
Any food establishment to which this section applies shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health after consultation with the Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention and Management established under Section 41-101-1 or its successor. The State Department of Health shall prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese, and shall provide those materials to all food establishments to which this section applies. A food establishment shall be entitled to rely on the criteria for obesity in those written materials when determining whether or not it is allowed to serve food to any person.
Mississipi Lawmakers Propose Banning Fat People From Restaurants (Alas, a blog)
Mississippi legislators seek to bar restaurants from serving fat people (Feministe)
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As if other people's diets are any of the government's business anyway, but enforcing an INHERENTLY UNHEALTHY diet is completely mind-boggling...
<a href ="http://www.flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/1459239412/in/set-72157602199008819>her</a>, <a href ="http://www.flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/1458133850/in/set-72157602199008819/>her</a>, and OMG <a href ="http://www.flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/1459030473/in/set-72157602199008819/>THIS outrageously fat</a> couple. What fucking bullshit!
Edited at 2008-02-01 03:12 pm (UTC)
her, her, and OMG THIS outrageously fat couple.
So yeah, can you believe the sheer obesity of those people! It's a wonder they can get around easily :P.
OOOOOOOBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSIIIIIITYYYY
I mean, over and above the fact that the "WAR ON OBESITY BOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGA
Other than--are you sure it's February 1 and not April 1? :p
Radical notion, I know. Give people a reason to do right, and they just might take the hint. :p
Edited at 2008-02-01 05:27 pm (UTC)
Also Mississippi is the fattest state of this once-grand Republic. This is an act of desperation on the part of Mississippi.
how much do you want to bet that the representative who proposed the anti-obesity bill smokes? and the time of the bill is proximal to when the smoking ban was raised.
(as an MPH, I do believe the obesity epidemic is real, and has serious implications. BUT NO ONE WITH HALF A BRAIN, much less real interest in changing the damaging effects of overweight in Mississippi would come up with such a lame idea for legislation. We might propose, say, adequately funding public health programs....)
Milo: The first step in our weight-reduction program is the surgical reduction of the stomach... actually closing off much of the stomach cavity.
Milo: However, funds are short for surgery, so we've gone to an elastic belt.
Milo: Ready?
Opus: Ready.
Milo: The subject usually dies within a week, after which substantial weight loss begins immediately.
And that was mocking weight fears in 1986. (The strip in question is in Billy and the Boingers Bootleg.)
Oh, and I wouldn't be able to eat in restaurants. Because I am a fat woman and I should feel ashamed of myself and don't deserve to be treated like a human being.