How Do You Feel About That Law Looking To Get Passed Banning Obese People From Restaurants?!
Answers: It's happening in Mississippi; the state with the highest obesity rate. Agree or disagree?
They want to ban obese people from restaurants? Am I reading this correctly?
If that's the case, I do not agree with that. What would be the point? People have the right to be fat if they want to be. How obese are they talking about? I know I'm just pass the obese mark on a BMI chart, but I am pregnant right now...but still, that is so freakin stupid. Obese people would be their best customer! They like to eat! Very stupid.
You know, I was also thinking. I have some in-laws that all they do is eat, eat and eat and they have a really high metabolism and they are skinny, but have high cholesterol. Then there is me, where I have a little weight on me, I watch what I eat and exercises regularly, but my cholesterol is fine. Maybe they need to stop judging people from the outside and start judging from the inside. Instead of being weighed to see if your obese, maybe they should test your cholesterol to see what's really going on!!
That's ridiculous. Some obese people can't help it, it's in their genes.
I havent heard that.....but that is ridicolous!!!
disagree! wheres all their business gonna go?
For anyone not in the know...
A Mississippi lawmaker proposed to ban restaurants from serving fat people. Bill text: 1) Restaurants "shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese." 2) "The State Department of Health shall monitor [compliance] and may revoke the permit of any food establishment that repeatedly violates" this rule. Rationales: 1) Mississippi has the nation's highest obesity rate. 2) "Mississippi's obesity rate cost Medicaid alone $221 million each year."
And now, my opinion...I think this is another "BIG GOVERMENT" style move that is completely ridiculous. If you are overweight, and still don't know that certain foods make you fat - that's YOUR decision. Last I checked, eating is still legal. It's like someone telling a smoker that they can't smoke in their own home - last I checked? Smoking is still legal - not very healthy, as is obesity, but it's a persons LEGAL personal choice to make.
Don't even get me started!...lol!
I don't think that law would actually pass. It is discrimination. Plus, the restaurants would not want the ban put into place.....they would lose money!
That lawmaker was on a national morning news program this morning. He stated that he did it just to raise awareness of the problem. He thought it would make people pay attention. He was well aware it wouldn't go anywhere (it's already been killed), but he was hoping the controversy would get people thinking about ways to solve the problem.
Personally, I think he could have found a less offensive way, but that's what he chose. Unfortunately, our media, as usual, wouldn't actually let him talk and wasted a bunch of time on so-called other experts whose job it was to discredit the guy.
I don't think they will be able to make it happen. People have the freedom of choice and the freedom to choose whether or not they want to eat in a restaurant.
They still have not determined what the definition of obese will be and how they would be able to enforce it.
Disagree. How can you ban people who keep your business up and running? If they don't like obese people coming in, they should focus on making their menu more healthy and balanced, rather than contributing to the problem.
God wil punish them all (i.e. those looking to pass this bill).
That is the stupidest thing I have heard of in quite a while. Nor only that, it is discriminatory - some people cannot help being overweight due to medications, diseases, heredity, etc.
We live in a scary scary world.....
This doesn't solve any problems. Firstly, there's no sure way to assess someone's health and fitness level simply by looking at them, unless they are on the extreme end of obese. Secondly, someone who is a problem eater can always get his or her "fix" via the grocery store, fast food, take-out, and the like; banning such a person from restaurants does nothing to help them. Thirdly, it simply adds to the stigma of being overweight or obese. Some believe that stigmatizing the overweight and the obese is the solution to the problem, but it only drives the depression, anxiety, and loneliness that leads people to medicate their problems with food in the first place. I still struggle with that problem, and it's only when I let go of the negative body image I have that I can work on getting healthy. In other words, it seems like there exist good intentions (i.e. obesity reduction) but bad execution strategy.
The programs known to work are ones that give people incentive to work out, either through the workplace or through school. Not everyone has the time or money to eat healthy or exercise, so there needs to be an effort to make it so.
I think its good.. and bad.
Good: It will help people relize they are obese & that they need to lose some weight!
It will also motivate people to lose weight.
Bad: It's just plain wrong & discriminating. It's telling people its ok to "judge a book by its cover." It also would make the obese people feel like crap & people may make fun of them a lot.
Plus like what are they going to do? Take the BMI of everyone who walks in..
NO.
What out here comes the Lifestyle Police.... Watch what your doing,cuz someones watching you.
I disagree with such a blatantly ridiculous discriminating law.
The only new laws we need passed is the one that states the people of the US shall not elect idiots into office.
Disagree...we do not live in a perfect world
I'd like to think that it won't pass, however a huge number of communities have banned smoking within their limits and during Prohibition, people couldn't buy alcohol. I never thought it would happen. However when a large group of people pull together, things happen even if it seems as though it's constitutionally unfair. Whatever happened to an individual's choice?
If it can be done for prayers in school, alcohol free communities, drug bans, Jews during the Holocaust, why not fat people from eating fast food? Whether it's fair or not, this is somebody idea of fixing people that are broken and costing society money.
I'm frightened by the idea. I've been overweight most of my life and made to feel like an outsider. This just seems like one more way to convince me that I was never meant to survive here with the others, because now they believe I don't have the right to eat what, when and where I want.
agree
I no longer wish to support (tax wise) the health maintenance of these people.. blimps,, footballs,, punching bags,, Jabba de hut...?
the law ( as I know) is only for for the discount food buffets
The Organic food fools and the ethanol industries have helped drive the cost of simple staples out of proportion..
You have out taxed the nonsense about smoking ...!!!
YOU still have no Insurance.. fat smokers still are drawing government aid.. and dieing
If vegetarians & vegans can alter their life styles then stop the obvious FAT from the inexpensive food buffets..
too many people at the low income can not buy cheep food at the grocers...
as a matter of fun why not a very small entry door "20 inches wide".. You can not get in,,, well order out... BUT no "all you you can eat"....