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How can legislation like that even be enforced? And do they plan on subsidizing the restaurants for lost revenue? Sounds like it has as much basis in reality as "Ban the N-Word."
Mississippi legislators are trying to make it illegal for restaurants to serve food to obese patrons to combat the state's high obesity rate...
"I'm sorry ma'am, but I am unable to take your order because you are too fat." lol.
Hopefully they put the enforcement videos on youtube.
What if the patron is just a little overweight, with a BMI only 5 pounds above the ideal? What if the patron is bigboned? What if the patron is really thin but looks fat in the outfit she's wearing? What if the patron eats the Matre'd?
A politician's appetite for control knows no boundaries. We should turn it around on the politicians who are trying to enact this totalitarian, anti-american legislation. No more votes allowed for any politician who over indulges in political power.