JACKSON, Miss. - A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers — but please, don’t be offended.
He says he never even expected his plan to become law.
“I was trying to shed a little light on the number one problem in Mississippi,” said Republican Rep. John Read of Gautier, who acknowledges that at 5-foot-11 and 230 pounds, he’d probably have a tough time under his own bill.
More than 30 percent of adults in Mississippi are considered it obese, according to a 2007 study by the Trust for America’s Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention.
The bill had no specifics about how obesity would be defined, or how restaurants were supposed to determine if a customer was obese.
(from the AP article carried by MSN)
And our "leaders" wonder why the people are so reticent to trust them to act in our best interests. As a fat person myself, I honestly think that if the government was that concerned about the increase in obesity in this country they'd start from the foundation and work their way up, instead of paratrooping onto the roof in full riot gear and trying to take over the building. How about more general nutrition and health education and more emphasis on physical activity as part of grade and middle school curriculum, especially focusing on potentially lower income areas? No, we couldn't have that - it would take too much time away from all that sitting around on their plump little bottoms, learning how to pass a standardized test that has no relevance to anything except statistical analysis, so the school can get enough funds to barely supply the most basic of needs for the students...to use to learn how to successfully take their standadized tests while not actually learning anything. And maybe they could limit the presence of junk food and soda dispensers in primary schools, since too many schools have to use them as a means of drawing additional revenue at the expense of their students' well being. Of course, the convenience food market is a multi billion dollar industry, and I'm sure there is no shortage of influence from lobbyists preventing the application of good old common sense. There are so many other things that the government could do, on a state as well as national level, to combat obesity, yet they insist on wasting time and our tax dollars on things like a "No Fatties Allowed" restaurant bill that's doomed to inevitable failure before it even hits the floor. Thanks, Big Brother, for once again attempting to tell me how to live while at the same time doing precious little to improve my quality of life.
Have you ever noticed that there are few corpulent zombies in that particular film ouevre? So, what - the zombies eat all the chunky people first (who are naturally more delicious because of their superior marbeling and buttery texture)? They can't run as fast as the more svelt (and gamey) prey, maybe? I think someday I want to make a movie specifically about the fat undead. I'd call it Revenge of the Twinkie Corpses. The tagline would be: "They're huge, they're well preserved...and dammit - they're hungry!" Instead of the usual zombie call of "braiiins", mine would all be moaning "BAAAAAAAACON".
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