Posted on 07/21/2008 5:42:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Exiling the Happy Meal Los Angeles Lawmakers Want to Escalate The War on Obesity (And Fast Food) By SARAH MCBRIDE July 22, 2008
Despite its health-crazy reputation, parts of Los Angeles are plagued by obesity rates that rival any city in America. Now, the city may join a growing roster of local governments aiming to put their residents on diets by cracking down on the fast-food industry.
Jan Perry, a Los Angeles city-council member, is spearheading legislation that would ban new fast-food restaurants like McDonald's and KFC from opening in a 32-square-mile chunk of the city, including her district. The targeted area is already home to some 400 fast-food restaurants, she says, possibly contributing to high obesity rates there -- 30% of adults, compared with about 21% in the rest of the city. Nationally, 25.6% of adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While some cities have bans on new fast-food establishments, they typically are for aesthetic reasons or to protect local businesses. Ms. Perry's initiative seems to be a rare instance in which a major city brings health issues into restaurant zoning. The fast-food ban would last a year, although Ms. Perry hopes to make it permanent. On Tuesday, a committee will make a recommendation on the measure before sending it on to the full city council for a vote.
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Hey, how ‘bout if it’s too fattening for their taste....DON’T EAT IT? Commies.
Hey, when lawmakers are running totally out of control, they don't need cause & effect to support laws restraining the free market. They know better than the rest of us, right?
First they came for the smokers, then they came for the McLardasses, then they came for the...
Mayor McCheese to the city of L.A.: "Bite me!"
That purple out fit makes her look like “Grimace”
You have your choice of foods at McDonald's, including salads and wraps. No need to ban McDonald's....
Is this a great country or what?
All over the world, people are starving.
In America they have to INVENT a problem in order for parasitic grant junkies to profit from the racket. Seems that the biggest problem here is that the "poor" are too fat and spend too much time watching TV and using computers.
I'll say it again...GOD BLESS AMERICA!
In Hell, these grant junkies and greedy liberal activists will spend time on a food line in a 3rd World socialist country....a line that continues for eternity while they starve.
And eventually, when these places disappear from her inner-city district through attrition, the lack of access to fast food (and the jobs serving it) will be blamed on "racism." Guaranteed.
Got it now.
Looks like her district is South Central LA.
So we can add the wrinkle of evil, greed-driven, white-male run corporations exploiting poor minorities.
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We the People Sheeple of the United States Nanny State, in Order to form a more perfect Union Socialist Utopia, establish Justice Socially engineer a country of non smoking, physically fit, teetotalers, insure domestic Tranquility Smoking bans in bars, limits on unhealthy food and social drinking, provide for the common defense Universal Healthcare, promote the general Welfare health of the population whether they like it or not, in order to save above mentioned Universal Healthcare entitlement program from bankruptcy, and secure the Blessings of Liberty Dependency to ourselves progressive liberals and our Posterity Hitler Youth who we brainwash through public school education, do ordain decree and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Nanny State of Liberals.
What are they going to do next, prohibit people from making cheeseburgers and french fries in their own homes?
Exactly. I already have two veggie friends in their graves.
Guess what it isn’t the food. It is that these people sit on their @$$e$ all day watching TV, playing video games and surfing the internet while drinking soda and eating potato chips.
Banning fast food is putting a band aid on a bayonet wound.
Fine. I have the solution.
Have REAL PE in school. Grade the brats on how fit they are each semester. Run ‘em for miles, through individual and cooperative obstacle courses, teach ‘em hand to hand.
After its the results that count, right?
Wait,... uh, sorry. I forgot. Its about how these freaks feel and how much power they can accumulate....
“First they came for the smokers, then they came for the McLardasses, then they came for the...”
Right. The Nanny Staters are strangley silent aren’t they?
Well, we told them, sooner or later they will come after something you like.
Enjoy you idiocy Nanny Staters.
Well, with the exception of post #18. The Nanny Staters slip out of their “moral” high ground.
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
looks like she's spent some time at the arches to me...
Now, who didn’t see this coming, and where are our resident nannies on this one?
One thing at a time ~ first let’s get rid of high carbohydrate juice.
Wonder how many privately owned and operated taco stands (and taco wagons) will also be made to comply with health standards for fat content.
Will they come to take the lard out of refried beans and tamales?
Or is this just about the Big M and other major corporations?
Now, I know that nothing short of their own death, exile or imprisonment will slow them down or stop them.
Next time, to prove your point, can you please post a pic without the 400 lb heffers’ nipples showing through her dress? I just ate.
Thank you.
Ban pie crusts. The danger lurks in the carbohydrates.
When they came for the drinkers during Prohibition, I did not speak out, as I was not a drinker.
When they came for the employees of the oldest profession in the world, I did not speak out, as I had no interest in purchasing sex.
When they came for the purveyors of what was deemed to be "obscene" or "offensive", I did not speak out, as I was not a fan of entertainers like Lenny Bruce or Howard Stern.
When they came to ban the female mammary gland from TV, I did not speak out, because Brian Boitano told me not to.
When they came for the marijuana smokers, I did not speak out, as I was not a marijuana smoker.
When they came for the steroid users, I did not speak out, as I was not a steroid user.
When they came for the _______ (insert nominally objectionable behavior here), I did not speak out as I was not a _________ (fill in the blank).
When they came for the fireworks buyer, I did not speak out, as I just sat on my lawn chair and watched the State sponsored 4th of July event
When they came for the pornographers, I did not speak out, as I was not a pornographer.
When they came for the people who don't wear seatbelts, I did not speak out, as I always wore my seatbelt.
When they came for the gun owners, I did not speak out, as I was not a gun owner.
When they came for the gamblers, I did not speak out, as I was not a gambler.
When they came for the "polluters", I did not speak out as I was not a polluter.
When they came for the SUV drivers, I did not speak out, as I did not drive an SUV.
When they came for the cigarette smokers, I did not speak out, as I was not a smoker.
When they came for the overweight and the obese, I did not speak out, as I was not overweight or obese.
When they came for the drinkers (again), I did not speak out, as I was not a drinker.
Then they came for me...and there was nobody left to speak out.
Yeah, She’s sucked down her fair share of Slurpies!
Ban high-fructose corn syrup. That stuff is poison.
But none of it matters if you run their @$$e$ off...
Is some one force feeding them?
You might not mind - all the fun people are in the camps.
NOooooooo.....!!!
Shutting down the only businesses that might hire ex-gang bangers - and the only reliable food source when there are few grocery stores in crime ridden areas - is a bad idea.
Its a bad idea period!
“taco wagons” ~ you had me there for a moment. Thinking to myself “just what could he be talking about” and then I recalled the correct word “roach coachs”.
“taco wagons” ~ you had me there for a moment. Thinking to myself “just what could he be talking about” and then I recalled the correct word “roach coachs”.
Those camps are pretty fun. You meet some very interesting people hanging around outside the office building smoking a cigarette.
The best conversations I’ve ever had have been with fat drunk guys on bar stools.
We have great times.
As that great poet and philosopher William Joel once said...
“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints...the sinners are much more fun....Only the good die young.”
Where are the anti smoker freepers at??? They said it would never happen.. I don’t smoke, but I knew the Government started pushing the smokers around, the Government is going after fast food next ....
I've even forgotten all of the dumbasses names on the other site who swore that the Totalitarian grant junkies and paid activists would quit when smokers were finished. I can even tell the anti's the mistake they are making and they won't heed my warning anyway.....
Same mistake that the Third Reich and the Nazi commanders in WWII made...they fought the war on too many fronts at once.
I thought they were invincible, but they are stupid and make the same stupid mistakes. History repeats itself. They can't help it.
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Whoohoo! I am going to make a killing smuggling Big Mac’s into south central LA. Got to go, I have to make hidden compartments in my car.
I grew up when "real PE" was part of the curriculum. The sadistic coaches managed to kill a few kids each year by running them too hard. My dumbass coach insisted that I run a half mile, then just about had a heart attack himself when my pulse rate measured 220. He was real close to becoming "famous" for stupidity that year.
Don't worry. Once the fast food joints are out of the way, I'm sure Whole Foods and other high-end organic supermarkets will spring up - as if by magic - in the more "exciting" neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
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Wrong again. My former colleague loved to run. He was the fittest person I ever met. His running log recorded just 17 days short of running at least 5 miles for 6,000 consecutive days. A sprained ankle from a vigorous "wallyball" match broke the consecutive string. I say "former" because he died of a massive heart attack at age 44. That came on a day that he had run 5 miles before work, biked 10 miles to work, played wallyball for 2 hours after work, then rode his bike back home.
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