Jenn showed this to me.

[hahawhat]

In Mississippi, the poorest state in the USA with a 30% adult obesity rate, a bill has been introduced to make it illegal to serve fat people in restaurants.  Specifically, the legislation reads,HOUSE BILL NO. 282...An act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the state

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[emilytbm]

100% agreed.

[dirtyfiends]

holy shit, that makes me sick.
the whole end justifies the means is way beyond me.

[theoryofgravity]

Apparently the legislator who authored it is now saying he never expected it to pass, but devised it as a sort of Swiftian joke, and given the media attention has said something to the effect of "wow, threaten to take food away from fat people and they freak out!" Class act.

And I hear you, I had my never-forgiving-the-US moment in 2000. It depresses me that I'm so far beyond caring now.

[hahawhat]

Yeah, I know he did it to "raise awareness." Indeed, my awareness has been raised that all republicans totally want to be everybody's DADS.

I'm baffled by how an "epidemic" of such massive scale (yuk yuk) could possibly be in need of more awareness, especially in light of a TWENTY-TWO PERCENT POVERTY RATE, ON THE RISE. Gee golly, that's almost as high as the obesity rate. Any bets on their overlap spread?

I think I've "never forgiven" the US like forty times, and I'm not sure how much more I can take. I already am disgusted by basically all of "middle America," which is a decidedly offensive sentiment that I just cannot control.

Ugh.

[laugh_life_away]

oh hell no.

[garconniere]

holy fuck.

i cannot STAND the words "obesity" and "epidemic" together, because of the facts that are ignored, like you point out, about poverty and accessibility. but also the fact that the way obesity is qualified has shifted in the last 20 years, namely the body mass index.

that is so fucked up.