An unhealthy trend: Obesity can’t be solved by legislation

A moron with a bullhorn.

"Although the lawmaker who proposed it claims his aim was only to 'shed light' on obesity in his home state, Mississippi state Rep. John Read’s attempt to shed the public’s pounds were little more than a waste of his fellow lawmakers’ time.

Mississippi has the highest obesity rate in the nation, according to a report in USA Today. Mr. Read, one of three Republicans to sponsor a measure that would force restaurants to refuse to serve obese customers, demonstrated nothing so much as how society is increasingly discriminatory about fat for all the wrong reasons. Obesity is a health issue, not an appearance one, yet jokes are made at the expense of the obese without a thought to their quality of life. This proposal is just one more jab."

Perhaps this moron can explain how society can become "increasingly discriminatory about fat for all the RIGHT reasons."

Now that is loony.

"Nutrition experts don’t like the idea, either, citing improvements in diet that are the result of efforts to 'stop blaming obesity on the people who have it and address the social and political conditions that drive it.'”

Experts?

Oh, the ones who did not recognize this mess until too late and did not prevent it when it was not a huge epidemic and who continue to offer bad/impossible/useless/harmful weight loss advice.

Those experts?

Shut up.

"There are societal issues that drive obesity, the primary one being poverty."

Bull.

"The cheapest foods are often the most filling yet the least nutritious, and the financial inability to have a diet high in fresh vegetables and fruits as well as fish and lean meat is a direct contributor to obesity nationwide. Obesity isn’t just a Mississippi problem, of course. And in the South overall, it’s as much a culture and tradition problem as one spurred by money — or its lack."

Clearly this imbecile has no concept of what leads to overweight or obesity and that there are no "healthy" foods.

Yet, there is a platform for this purveyor of crap.

"But passing laws that allow restaurants to refuse service is not just discriminatory and needlessly insulting to the individual. Such action would do nothing to address the problem. We already have enough on our governmental plates, both as states and at the national level, to solve this problem with a network of food spies and enforcers."

More bull.

This remains a familiar approach and is no more discriminatory than Dram Shop Acts.