No Fat People Allowed in Mississipi Restaurents

Fat people are under attack in Mississippi. Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.

More than 30 percent of adults in Mississippi are considered it obese, according to a 2007 study by the Trust for America’s Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention.

 

Why would they not allow fat people, theyre there best customers.

 

That is discrimination, it is their choice if they want to eat or not.

 

I guess they're trying to help those fat people to diet

 

Because they take 2 persons spot lol.
Restos aint big enuf there

 

Gov's made a heap of tax from tabacoo- then ban smoking...

Gov's let the food industry hide fat, salt, sugar and rubbish in our food, starch, syrup, corn oil, palm oil, rapeseed oil, and a million chemicals that make you gain weight- then they ban fat people.....
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What next? A tax on Asthma sufferers cos when they have an attack, (due to Gov's allowing pollution levels to rise) and gasping for air loudly they are causing noise pollution...

Sad really.....

 

Theres no initiative to help themselves, so the government does it for them. now THATS sad.

 

I would like to see this ban on obese people from public transit instead. If you've ever been crushed by one on a bus, you'd know what I mean.

 

That's pretty stupid IMO considering how many fat people are in the US. Restaurants will go out of business with that law!

 

Fat people should not be humiliated like that. Although their intention of helping them reduce weight is noble, there are far better ways to do this.

 

Wow... That's a total BS.

Some people gain weight from illnesses, not from eating...

They expect people to lose weight to go to restaurants?......

 

This is shitty... as in the OP, the bill's going to be dead on arrival.

 

That would be definitely outrageous, a law thrust on the individual's fundamental right

 

Where am i gonna eat now -_-

 

It's a severe method to stop the increasing number of the obese people...will be effective?or they'll be more frustrated and eat even more then before

 

I dont know how can someone even think about it... okey they are fat, so they may need treatment, but not allowing them to go to restaurants? Well if it was me i´d sell everything in that state a move to another state. Then when they would run out of fat people they would also run out of tax-cash...

I dont believe that someone can even think about it...instead of helping they just marginalize them...

 

Some people dodged the bullet when it was their time to go.......

 

They probably want to discourage obese people from eating more by imposing penalties. But that hardly would be effective. Not a good idea, IMO, for introducing eating related behaviorial changes.

 

Sure, providing school education about what you eat. Providing GOOD LUNCHES at school, providing benefits to gims and healthy related activities. That should be done not this.

 

I can't imagine this bill will pass. Seems too much like discrimination to me.