Fatties will not be served

[illusionofjoy]

stacycat69 found this before me; it was from her I yanked the link.

According to a post today on Junkfood Science, restaurants in Mississippi will not be allowed to serve the obese, should a bill working its way through the legislature get passed. From the weblog entry:

Lawmakers have proposed legislation that forbids restaurants and food establishments from serving food to anyone who is obese (as defined by the State). Under this bill, food establishments are to be monitored for compliance under the State Department of Health and violators will have their business permits revoked.

House Bill 282 was introduced in the 2008 Mississippi legislative session on Friday by Representative W.T. Mayhall, Jr., a retired pharmaceutical salesman with DuPont-Merk. Its co-authors are Bobby Shows, a businessman, and John Read, a pharmacist.

I'd like to think that this bill would die a quick death for being so utterly ridiculous. Sadly, it has a chance, seeing as how fatness is considered a "lifestyle choice" and not something pre-determined like race.

Thoroughly asinine.

Comments

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This is just fucked up. As a bigger person I am really offended by this. I've been big my whole life. I tried a lot of diets. I tried a lot of exercise stuff as far back as being a kid. I never had luck losing weight and at a young age I started having muscle and joint problems. I don't know if back then it was from my Fibromyalgia but the pains have worsened as I got older to where-as if I walk like maybe two two three blocks at a brisk pace my muscles and joints will hurt so bad I can barely walk for several days to a week at times. Fuck that asshole who wants to have this bill passed. It isn't always a lifestyle choice what about people who have conditions that may cause them to be heavy or have to be on medications like a lot of steroids that cause you to gain weight. I really can't believe this :( I hate to even think that something like that has a chance of passing... Lets just hope if it does that other states don't start doing it but I can see it becoming like the cigarette bans in some places banning it in all bars and stuff.

Thanks for posting this I'm gona def. post a bulletin on myspace about this! Take care, Seth!

~Criddle

[mokie]

Wait, wait...

So, this would give restaurants the chance--no, the responsibility--of saying, "Sorry, you're fat, you don't get to eat today?"

Ah, no, sorry, it's "You're fat, you don't get to eat at nice places"!

That is daft.