AN ACT TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS FROM SERVING 1 FOOD TO ANY PERSON WHO IS OBESE,

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE ^ | 2008 | Representatives Mayhall, Read, Shows

[Leisler]

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS FROM SERVING 1 FOOD TO ANY PERSON WHO IS OBESE, BASED ON CRITERIA PRESCRIBED BY 2 THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT TO 3 PREPARE WRITTEN MATERIALS THAT DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN THE CRITERIA 4 FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A PERSON IS OBESE AND TO PROVIDE THOSE 5 MATERIALS TO THE FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS; TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT TO 6 MONITOR THE FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS 7 OF THIS ACT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. 8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI: 9 SECTION 1. (1) The provisions of this section shall apply 10 to any food establishment that is required to obtain a permit from 11 the State Department of Health under Section 41-3-15(4)(f), that 12 operates primarily in an enclosed facility and that has five (5) 13 or more seats for customers. 14 (2) Any food establishment to which this section applies 15 shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, 16 based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health 17 after consultation with the Mississippi Council on Obesity 18 Prevention and Management established under Section 41-101-1 or 19 its successor. The State Department of Health shall prepare 20 written materials that describe and explain the criteria for 21 determining whether a person is obese, and shall provide those 22 materials to all food establishments to which this section 23 applies. A food establishment shall be entitled to rely on the 24 criteria for obesity in those written materials when determining 25 whether or not it is allowed to serve food to any person. 26 (3) The State Department of Health shall monitor the food

[isrul]

hic

[MinuteGal]

Romney/Barbour......winning combo 2008.

Leni

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Scrappleface?

[petitfour]

MS Ping

Anything for MS trial lawyers in need of a new cash cow, I guess.

[petitfour]

But insurance companies will love it. They can cut off fat patients from getting insurance payments. Life insurance payments can be denied if a person dies of some fat-related ailment whether fat really is the culprit or not. I’m sure some scientific evidence can be manufactured to suit any ole lawyer’s case. Kind of like homeowners whose houses blow away during a hurricane can’t make a claim to their insurance because during the hurricane, water blew ashore and replaced the spot where the houses used to be. Which came first? The wind or the sea??????????

[LibLieSlayer]

Have you seen Haley’s waistline? “This bill ain’t a goin’ nowhere”... to keep it in the local vernacular.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

They stop usually by age 35 or so... when our large brethren simply keel over from chest explosion. These obese people live like they want to live, die early, decrease the surface population and decrease medical costs to the state. I see no problem. I say "light 'em up"... if you got 'em. I LOVE FREEDOM!

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

“If they want to shout at fat dudes, let them adjourn and hang out at Buford’s House of Lard ‘n Waffles.”

It burned down last week.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

2012 maybe... Haley vowed to serve his full term before even considering another office. He is a man of his word 100%.

LLS

[savedbygrace]

Then the driver sez, “It ain’t fer me. It’s fer mah skinny wife back at the house.”

[Glenn]

should we also stop serving food to people of a certain skin color?

I heard the other day that African-Americans do not, as a rule, tip the wait staff. Is that true? Where did that enter their culture?

[oswegodeee]

Well, most of the restaurants will go out of business in Mississippi!

Or better yet there will be food speak-easys.

This is just more of the Nanny Government trying to rule like dictators. Jeeez Loueez!

[kenth]

Skinny and vapid?!?

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* thumbs up * lol

Women should look like women, not twelve year old boys.

[processing please hold]

I’d like to see La. try to get a bill like that passed. The phrase, ‘raging cajun’ would have a new meaning.

[freemike]

lol! That was funny!

[Jane Austen]

This is something Huckabee would support.

[Mashood]

I have to agree with you. After watching episodes on TV of fat people needing to be lifted by cranes to get off the bed, I have changed my attitude on these types. They should have the same fate as lame horses and turned into glue.

[MinuteGal]

"There will be food speak-easys".

LOL!

I know a dark secluded place
Where no one ever knows your face
A fried food dinner, a custard glace
It's called Fat Folks Hideaway

Just knock three times and whisper low
That you and I were sent by Joe
Then scarf a tart and you will know
You're in Fat Folks Hideway......

Ole!

Leni

[goldstategop]

The bill is unconstitutional - it amounts to a restraint of freedom of occupation and an interference with personal choice. If I want to eat, I want to eat. The government best keep its fugly nose out of my business.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[SuziQ]

Doesn’t the Mississippi legislature have anything better to do? If not, they need to go home for a while, so they won’t do any damage.