House Bill 282, filed in the Mississippi legislature, is an “act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the state department of health”. It sounds as if it almost has to be a parody, but when Sandy Szwarc calls its sponsor he says he’s perfectly serious (Jan. 31).
Banning restaurants from serving the obese
House Bill 282, filed in the Mississippi legislature, is an “act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the state department of health”. It sounds as if it almost has to be a parody, but when Sandy Szwarc calls its sponsor he says […]
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Well, in all fairness, if the restaurants are going to get sued otherwise for ‘contributing to my weight obesity!’, and they can’t refuse to serve those customers because of ADA, something needs to be done.
If there is legislation that prohibits serving the obese, at least the restaurants can hide behind it a little.
Since 2/3 of the population of Mississippi is obese, what are the chance that this will pass?
And if it does, what are the chances that it would withstand an Interstate
Commerce Clause challenge? (Have looked at the folks at the truck stop lately? How about the Florida-bound folk on I10?)
What happens to people like diabetics that have to eat to stay alive, obese or not?
What happens when a person who can meet the BMI test nude shows up and fails the weigh-in while clothed? Will the rest of the folks there still want to eat?
Walter: Thanks for this tip.
I proposed the licensing of the buyer for the use of addictive substances and adult pleasures. This approach would permit freedom for the majority that can control itself, and prevent damage from out of control use.
Reviewed here:
http://supremacyclaus.blogspot.com/2007/12/licensing-not-prohibition-adult.html
I did not think of food.
I am adding food to the list of addictive pleasures. Points against the license would accumulate with weight. The holder loses the license to buy food, anywhere. Those supplying the delicensed could be sued in torts for health costs and personal damages, by the eater and the Attorneys General of the States, on behalf of Medicaid.
The license resumes once back to lawful weight.
(I can’t decide if the above is satirical or prescient.)
The state of Mississippi exists solely to keep the remaining states of the South from being last (or first depending on the nature of the list) on all the collections of foolish data compiled by the United States government and/or USA Today. On behalf of these other states I want to thank Representative W.T. Mayhall, Jr., et al, for continuing to keep us safe from the cellar.
Getting licensed dieticians to work for sub-minimum wage + tips is going to be a cool thing to watch!
Or will there be BMI machines that need to have their calibration legally verified in every instance? That’d be cool, too. And a new niche employment opportunity.
Dont you just love the way that liberals want to take care of us from cradle to grave?
“Dont you just love the way that liberals want to take care of us from cradle to grave?”
And get us more efficiently from on to the other, while they’re at it.
Of course, I think most people want to avoid efficiency in that particular area, but that doesn’t bother such people a bit – after all, they are our betters and know what is best for us.