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Posted on 09/10/2007 6:43:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As America gets fatter, policymakers are seeking creative approaches to legislating health. They may have entered the school cafeteria -- and now they're eyeing your neighborhood.
Amid worries of an obesity epidemic and its related illnesses, including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, Los Angeles officials, among others around the country, are proposing to limit new fast-food restaurants -- a tactic that could be called health zoning.
The City Council will be asked this fall to consider an up to two-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in South L.A., a part of the city where fast food is at least as much a practicality as a preference.
"The people don't want them, but when they don't have any other options, they may gravitate to what's there," said Councilwoman Jan Perry, who proposed the ordinance in June, and whose district includes portions of South L.A. that would be affected by the plan.
In just one-quarter of a mile near USC on Figueroa Street, from Adams Boulevard south, there are about 20 fast-food outlets.
"To be honest, it's all we eat," Rey Merlan said one recent lunch hour at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. "Everywhere, it's fast food everywhere."
Merlan said it wasn't likely that a limit on new restaurants would change peoples' habits, even though he thinks it's a good idea.
A Times analysis of the city's roughly 8,200 restaurants found that South Los Angeles has the highest concentration of fast-food eateries. Per capita, the area has fewer eating establishments of any kind than the Westside, downtown or Hollywood, and about the same as the Valley. But a much higher percentage of those are fast-food chains. South L.A. also has far fewer grocery stores.
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Who’s to decide what foods are considered healthy among those that are not? Will Subway get a pass or Quiznos? What about Taco Bell? Where do they fit in?..........
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Tacos can be healthy if you fix them yourself............
...and yet California still allows sucrose...
...and yet California still allows wine...
A lot will depend on their local political contacts.
Redlining?
An unlimited number of new Mexican restaurants however, will of course be just fine.
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As Always. Like water, Money seeks the lowest level...............
What about old drunkards like Ted Kennedy?
Why not limit the number of Liquor Stores within a 20 mile radius of The Swimmer? Or only allow him to but 30 bottles of Chivas a week?
My plan is inbed a chip into everyones arm. Program what everyone is allowed to eat and drink (determined by the fine people in Congress). Everytime you enter a fastfood place or liquor store , it automatically registers on the chip.
So if you go to your limit of Burger King visits, you can then purchase Fast Food Credits from someone who does not go to fast food places often... It works so well for global warming, it will work GREAT for a Double Fat Burger with Chili and Cheese!
“...for your own good, of course.”
For the sake of their Socialist vision everybody needs to be healthy to ensure the flow of tax revenue to the State. Unhealthy people are a burden to the vision.
People farming Socialists.
Liquor stores and bars are about the most regulated businesses around. Somehow people still manage to find what they want to drink. Regulating the number of "fast" food joints will make lines longer and may increase prices. Cut down on consumption? Not likely.
Hey Calicommies, why don’t you take to minding your own business?
How stupid are people in California? California, the birthplace of nanny state fascism in the USA.
When Ted Kennedy dies, the liquor stores in DC, VA, MD, MA, and FL will be draped in black. Stocks of the company that makes Chivas Regal will decline. Scotland will have a national day of mourning.
When they outlaw abortions....Maybe I then could get on this ban this, ban that...band wagon.
*sigh*
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