Recently while reading the "Only In America" section of The Week I came across the following...
"The Mississippi legislature is considering a bill that would ban restaurants from serving food to very fat people/ The proposed law would revoke the license of any restaurant caught repeatedly feeding the obese. Mississippi has a 30 percent obesity rate, the nation's highest, and the bill's sponser state Rep. Ted Mayhall, said he was trying to call attention to a neglected public-health crisis. "No one's doing anything about it" said Mayhall. "They just keep going to buffets and eating all they want."
I'm not the healthiest person out there by any means but when I see adults feeding pudgy 3 years olds Cheetos, friend chicken, and soda on the bus, I find myself wondering if they know any better? And if those eating habits are passed from generation to generation, where will it end? So without going on too much of a rant, I agree with the obesity crisis part and respect this man for trying to call attention to the issue. But, is this the plan for real... How will it be enforced? Before eating will costumers have to get on a scale? Does this only apply to fast food and buffetss, or will restaurants serving "healthy" options be included?
3 comments:
the eating rules would be enforced by restaurant marshals, the buffet equivalent to the air marshal. undercover ninja like law enforcers ready to pounce when one too many donuts gets consumed, one to many sodas downed, one too many side orders of smothered chicken gets ordered. WATCH OUT the restaurant marshal is watching you eat and he might bust a karate chop to keep you from eating that extra pork chop.
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