Re: Off Topic.. a bill to NOT serve fat people food??????

[Guest guest]

Sorry, had to add something. What will they do next? Are they going to lock

the cookie isles in the grocery store and send the overweight people over to

produce only??? I am so ticked about this I want to go get a gallon of ice

cream and eat the whole damn thing. LOL....

Seriously, I am not that overweight but it sure makes me mad for someone to

even suggest not serving people food because they are " obese " .

Debra V.

debra van ness wrote:

Jeezzzzz, I just heard the most rediculous thing. I was watching CNN

and they said something about a bill they are trying to pass in MIssissippi that

would make it illegal for restaraunts to serve people who are obese. They would

be fined! What the hell???????

I am a little overweight and I know that no one SHOULD be morbidly obese... but

what the hell????? I cannot believe that anyone has a right to tell someone what

or where they can eat? I don't care if you weight 600 pounds, if you can walk

into an eating establishment, you should be able to eat whatever you want. It is

an idividual choice, that is not for someone else to decide what to do with your

body.

I AM FLOORED. I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EARS.....

help, did I hear it wrong.

hugs to all big and small,

Debra V.

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[Guest guest]

Debra,

Here are the details from the USA Today website:

Bill would make it illegal to feed the obese

Three legislators want to make it illegal for restaurants to serve

obese customers in Mississippi.

House Bill No. 282, which was introduced this month, says: Any food

establishment to which this section applies shall not be allowed to

serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed

by the State Department of Health after consultation with the

Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention and Management established

under Section 41-101-1 or its successor. The State Department of

Health shall prepare written materials that describe and explain the

criteria for determining whether a person is obese, and shall provide

those materials to all food establishments to which this section

applies. A food establishment shall be entitled to rely on the

criteria for obesity in those written materials when determining

whether or not it is allowed to serve food to any person.

The proposal would allow health inspectors to yank the permit from

any restaurant that " repeatedly " feeds extremely overweight customers.

The bill, written by GOP Rep. W. T. Mayhall Jr., was referred to the

Judiciary and Public Health committees, but The Free Press

doesn't expect it to garner much support in the statehouse.

About two-third of Mississippians are considered overweight or obese,

according to a recent analysis of federal health data.

[Guest guest]

Well Debra, can you imagine the loss of revnue.

Specially down on the coast in Biloxi, with all the

casinos rebuilding on the land,and seafood

restaraunts.

I think this is a hoot. I have family there and grew

up on the Mississpi coast and both of my kids were

born in Mississippi, and sounds like to me some

cornball is pushing stupidity again..lol

Diane

--- debra van ness wrote:

> Sorry, had to add something. What will they do

> next? Are they going to lock the cookie isles in

> the grocery store and send the overweight people

> over to produce only??? I am so ticked about this I

> want to go get a gallon of ice cream and eat the

> whole damn thing. LOL....

> Seriously, I am not that overweight but it sure

> makes me mad for someone to even suggest not serving

> people food because they are " obese " .

> Debra V.

>

> debra van ness wrote:

> Jeezzzzz, I just heard the most rediculous

> thing. I was watching CNN and they said something

> about a bill they are trying to pass in MIssissippi

> that would make it illegal for restaraunts to serve

> people who are obese. They would be fined! What the

> hell???????

> I am a little overweight and I know that no one

> SHOULD be morbidly obese... but what the hell????? I

> cannot believe that anyone has a right to tell

> someone what or where they can eat? I don't care if

> you weight 600 pounds, if you can walk into an

> eating establishment, you should be able to eat

> whatever you want. It is an idividual choice, that

> is not for someone else to decide what to do with

> your body.

>

> I AM FLOORED. I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EARS.....

>

> help, did I hear it wrong.

>

> hugs to all big and small,

> Debra V.

>

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[Guest guest]

I have to disagree about even fast food resturants being fined for not

changing their menu. NOBODY FORCES PEOPLE TO EAT THINGS THAT ARE BAD

FOR THEM!!! I'm sorry but nobody who is overweight can blame any other

person, company, resturant, etc for them being overweight. It is OUR

fault not Mcs because they cook hamburgers, cheeseburgers and

fries. I have been fat all my life and NEVER have I even thought of

blaming it on anyone else or any type of businses that serves food.

Being fat is not a disease, it is not the responsibility of anyone

else to monitor our food, it is MY responsiblity to eat heathly and

watch what I eat. Now, I know that I don't do that like I should

because I am lazy and I don't want to come home and cook from scratch

every night so we tend to eat more frozen processed food than I should

and I know that I eat more high calorie food than I should, but it's

my fault that I have the lack of willpower to stick to a diet, NOT a

resturants!

Just my two cents worth

N.