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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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LOL !
South Los Angeles is the muddy side of that great transient torrent that courses through the normally arid basin.
He who puts the most money into the most pockets.
Get it, lifestyle Nazism is not about health and never was.
I disagree entirely.
It is entirely about health. Saving Socialist Universal Healthcare entitlement programs from bankruptcy is the goal of the State.
I’ll vote for this. If I can’t smoke in a resaurant you can’t eat in a resaurant. Shut ‘em all down.
Outlawing fast food restaurants in South Central? That’s racist. This is America in 2007. Our African-American brothers and sisters have just as much right to supersize it as anybody else.
Personally I prefer bar food. Fried mushrooms, jalapeno poppers, fried cheese balls, pretzels, peanuts, etc.
Thanks for the ping!
And they didn’t believe that the smokers were the first ones....lol.
I’ll say it again, the smokers were the trial run. They succeeded beyond their wildest imagination and now that they know how to control people, they will stop at nothing until they tell you what you can and cannot do in every single facet of your life. And the scary part?......There are some people on this board who will be on their side.
Smells like a shakedown.
On that thought, I’m craving a burger. Be right back.
“They may have entered the school cafeteria — and now they’re eyeing your neighborhood.”
Compulsory school, all the time and everywhere.
Did you serve it with Dijon or mint jelly???
Maybe this woman doesn't comprehend basic economics. If nobody wanted these restaurants, they wouldn't stay open.
Because they know nobody will go there.
I don't even have to ask what political party this woman belongs to. Yes, the people just HATE fast food restaurants. That's why they have no patrons and make no money.
Yes for the anti-smoking Nazis it was "great" that smokers were being trashed and banished. They had no idea (or didn't care) that the government eventually would get around to banning something they DO like.
The NANNY STATE: Its been established in Texas....
In August, my 15 year old son was arrested, ticketed, and sentenced to 90 days probation for being a minor in possession of a cigar.
Meantime...back in the real world, the streets of Texas are roamed by illegal aliens (now considered and called unauthorized immigrants), drunk drivers, drug dealers, rapists, burglars, murderers, etc.....
At least the fine citizens of Harris County needn't worry about the horror of the threat from my teen cigar smoker anymore..... Let there be no doubt, I would have personally handled the issue, but the fine young Barney Fife of the KISD police department...stepped in just in time to save humanity...from a cigar and insure that a fine youth, that had never been in trouble in his short life, experience the "whole hog" of the Harris County Criminal Justice System....
Should he even get a traffic ticket while on probation he will lose his drivers license until age 21.....while drunk drivers gets back behind the wheel as soon as they leave the jail...
BTW...this new law is a result of Texas Senate Bill 55....making criminals out of good kids.......while the rest of Texas goes to hell in a hand basket....
Personally I bet most young boys have smoked that first and hopefully last cigar behind the garage or barn at some point in their journey to manhood....just don't try it anymore or anywhere in Texas.....
The reason people have gotten fatter, over the last 30 years, is because the health establishment has been telling everybody that fats are bad for you, so people have been eating less fat.
The percentage of calories in the average American’s diet has declined dramatically over the last 30 years, and as it has, people have gotten fatter.
The professionals were simply wrong.
GOOD MAN!! Most of the smoke nazis here in OheilO are fatasses.
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