Mississippi legislature wants to ban fat people from restaurants
Originally from ebonypearl, also from ravan.
Mississippi is considering House Bill 282--Description: Food establishments; prohibit from serving food to any person who is obese.
The upshot: "Any food establishment... shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health.... The State Department of Health shall prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese...."
Penalty for non-compliance? Losing their restaurant operating permit.
One blog says that anyone with a BMI of 30 or higher will be considered "obese," but I haven't been able to track that down in MI law. (Calculate your BMI. Note the utter lack of mitigating factors, like "disease," or "muscle tone," or "pregnancy.")
Does anyone--I mean, ANYONE--think that it would somehow "cure" the "obesity crisis" in the US by refusing to allow us to eat in public? (I say "us," because according to the chart, my BMI is 32.)
Mississippi is considering House Bill 282--Description: Food establishments; prohibit from serving food to any person who is obese.
The upshot: "Any food establishment... shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health.... The State Department of Health shall prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese...."
Penalty for non-compliance? Losing their restaurant operating permit.
One blog says that anyone with a BMI of 30 or higher will be considered "obese," but I haven't been able to track that down in MI law. (Calculate your BMI. Note the utter lack of mitigating factors, like "disease," or "muscle tone," or "pregnancy.")
Does anyone--I mean, ANYONE--think that it would somehow "cure" the "obesity crisis" in the US by refusing to allow us to eat in public? (I say "us," because according to the chart, my BMI is 32.)