AN ACT TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS FROM SERVING 1 FOOD TO ANY PERSON WHO IS OBESE,

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE ^ | 2008 | Representatives Mayhall, Read, Shows

[Bear_Slayer]

STOP SHOUTING!!!

[Leisler]

That’s not me, it was from copy and paste on the official text.

[doc1019]

Yes, stop shouting … and remember, “paragraphs are our friend”.

[YHAOS]

Serious? . . . or tongue-in-check?

[elizabetty]

Huckanomics.

[silentreignofheroes]

No.,,,anti-sewing factory workers..

[Brad from Tennessee]

STUDY RANKS MISSISSIPPI AS ‘FATTEST’ STATE IN U.S.

JACKSON, Miss. — Experts say Mississippians need to skip the gravy, say no to the fried pickles and start taking brisk walks to fight an epidemic of obesity.

According to a new study, this Deep South state is the fattest in the nation. The Trust for America’s Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention, says Mississippi is the first state where more than 30 percent of adults are considered obese.

Aside from making Mississippi the butt of late-night talk show jokes, the obesity epidemic has serious implications for public policy.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294873,00.html

[Leisler]

Yes. It is a official, Bill, introduced into the Mississippi House.

Hey, you didn’t think healthcare wouldn’t come without strings?

Fatties, Smokers are targets number one. After that, gun owners and private property nut cases for little stays in the electro shock farms.

[madison10]

You would do well to actually read the information at the link Leisler has with the article rather than criticizing right out of the box. Looks real to me.

[Leisler]

We are all tax cattle for the state now.

[doc1019]

Gosh, hurt the eyes nonetheless.

[coloradan]

While we’re at it, should we also stop serving food to people of a certain skin color?

[savedbygrace]

Even if it gets passed, Gov. Barbour would never sign it. Right?

[Buddy B]

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE - HOUSE BILL NO. 282

Here, read it as published.

[coloradan]

Note: “Epidemics” by definition are contagious diseases spread by an infectious agent, so what they are talking about is not an obesity epidemic. Although it sure pulls the emotional heartstrings.

[aruanan]

Aside from making Mississippi the butt of late-night talk show jokes, the obesity epidemic has serious implications for public policy.

Not really. If we lived one hundred years ago, we'd have people dying on an average of 25 years younger from all sorts of degenerative diseases caused by inadequate pre and peri-natal nutrition. Everyone is going to die of something. Better that they be obese and living and working for a couple of decades more and paying taxes than to prematurely die as in the past.

[diverteach]

What’s next, the state telling others thier too skinny and force them to eat?

[mrsmel]

Oh geeze not this again. This bill will NOT pass, and the sponsors know it. Mississippi has some of the most lenient smoking, gun, insurance, helmet, etc laws in the nation.

[Hoodat]

So when are they gonna stop giving food stamps to fat people?