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The Mississippi State House is proposing a law that would prohibit restaurants from serving patrons with a BMI over 30.


Okay, I know we have an obesity epidemic in this country and we really should do something about it, but preventing people from being served? So not the answer.
sgwhites

16 responses // Mississippi to ban fat people from eating in public?

  • This is the only way that Mississippi can think of to make people lose weight? Pathetic.

    I think that most of us can agree that prejudice and embarrassment are not the way to make people lose weight, this is just sad.
    dcuisinot
  • Next thing you know, we'll be refusing service to people based on the color of their skin...
    Philist
  • That is never going to be passed. Isn't Mississippi one of the fattest states in the nation? Talk about attacking your base. More like starving it.
    LostAtSea
  • It's discrimination, pure and simple.
    GunnarHeinrich
  • I can't imagine if this was actually able to pass and if a child was not able to be served and then it turns out that he or she has to take medicines that make them fat. It's possibilities like these that would be discriminatory and not make this bill succeed. There are so many underlying elements about being obese that just using the BMI wouldn't work.
    phoenixcrying
  • Mississippi has always been one stae that you could count on to tell people how tto think and act. Most of them feel that thay have the right to, Do as I say not as I do.
    Toughth
  • I agree that obese people should make better eating choices than "McDamage", but to deny them that right is simply unconstitutional and downright wrong.
    mj_fortunato
  • I think the law should be based on body fat percentage... Just think what a boon this would be to the caliper manufacturers and operators of the state...
    jogglef
  • This is just wrong. I personally cant stand to eat at McDonalds, or for that matter any fast food, but people have the right to eat there no matter what size they are.
    smitchell22
  • I think obesity should be treated like nicotine addiction. Smokers and obese patrons alike should be alienated and sent elsewhere to indulge in their dangerous habits. There's no reason why smokers should be "preached" too, and obese people be accepted.
    DoorsOfPerception
  • at first I had to reread this to see that what i understood was true.I am sad to say this but I am from Mississippi. but have moved on to greener pastures. I find that this law even being proposed is beyond disciminatory. but mean and ignorant.The key to fighting obesity is not to shame someone for there physical health but to educate. I have been struggling with my weight all my life and have found that one of the underlying roots to my problem is diet. I am now a vegetarian and promote healing mentally, physically and spiritually as a way of finding that balance of good health. This to me just seems a lazy way of dealing with the problem. What is wrong with taking sometime and putting money into educating people about health and diet. I can imagine how many ticked off people there would be if this passed.
    greensunflower
  • If passed, such a law would be a case of unprecedented state-sponsored bigotry.

    There should be no hinderance of the sale of legal goods, especially for something as essential to life as food. Engaging in the act of finding, purchasing and enjoying food fits well within the definition of "the pursuit of happiness," and this ban is a direct deprivation of that pursuit, therefore making it unconstitutional. As I see it, there's no way such a ban could be upheld.

    Futhermore, in these times, it is egregiously irresponsible for a legislative body to pass a mandate that will impede economic growth to the degree that this one will. Not only will restaurants be forced to lose money through a decrease in in-state customers, they will see decreased revenue from out of state as well. I for one would not visit a state, for business or vacation purposes, if I could not eat a meal in public while on the road.

    Get real, Mississippi.
    Alphaholic
  • "I think obesity should be treated like nicotine addiction. Smokers and obese patrons alike should be alienated and sent elsewhere to indulge in their dangerous habits. There's no reason why smokers should be "preached" too, and obese people be accepted."

    Um...I'm a bit too tipsy to produce a legble argument at the moment...but...wow that comes off as...well I dunno...you sound like a bigot. I know obese people can choose not to eat tons of fatty foods, and thereby not be so obese...in that sense, its not anywhere near skin color/ sexual orientatoin/ gender...but come on now.
    Like I said too tipsy to take life seriously right now, shoudn't have attempted to type, but that staement deserves a smackdwn, and I will be back, oh yes...tomorow...back to th card table
    Humdrum
  • hell yeah. i can't stand fat ppl.
    amandart
  • wtf?
    AngelinaH
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_uzaNSzWtE
    Interesting debate on the issue from Fox News...so trust it as much as you dare
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