California bans shitty fast food. Mexicans now angry.

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council has approved a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a low-income area of the city.
The moratorium unanimously approved Tuesday is a bid to attract restaurants that offer healthier food choices to residents in a 32-square-mile area of South Los Angeles.

Councilwoman Jan Perry says residents at five public meetings expressed concern with the proliferation of fast-food outlets in the community plagued by above-average rates of obesity.

Nearly three-quarters of the restaurants in South L.A. are fast-food outlets. That's a higher percentage than other parts of the city but the restaurant industry says the moratorium won't help bring in alternatives.

The ban comes at a time when governments of all levels are increasingly viewing menus as a matter of public health. Last Friday, California became the first state in the nation to bar ***** fats, which lowers levels of good cholesterol and increases bad cholesterol.

According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, 30 percent of adults in South Los Angeles area are obese, compared to 19.1 percent for the metropolitan area and 14.1 percent for the affluent westside. Minorities are particularly affected: 28.7 percent of Latinos and 27.7 percent of blacks are obese, compared to 16.6 percent of whites.

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[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

i say let'em get fat.

 

[dragnix 5,000+ posts]

it's their choice if they wanna kill themselves

 

[Ferendon 10+ year member]

Fast food is a way of weeding out the weak. Lots of people get big from home cooking, but they're generally harder working, and far less lazy. The fast food fatties tend to sit around all the time and ***** about being hungry.

 

[CRXBMPN 5,000+ posts]

i wish they would put up a few more fast few joints in my neck of the hood! all we got is Subway/McD's/Dunkin Jizznuts... I love BK and an Arby's would be nice too!

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[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Interesting

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

Now that's just bad. I know they have the best intentions, but I don't think they should limit the consumer's right to choose, nor the business' right to sell.

"Nanny state" FTL.

 

[T9X 10+ year member]

That's not right..

 

[Lingerfelt 10+ year member]

Fast food is a way of weeding out the weak. Lots of people get big from home cooking, but they're generally harder working, and far less lazy. The fast food fatties tend to sit around all the time and ***** about being hungry.

Most fat people eat because they're bored, not because they're hungry.

Now that's just bad. I know they have the best intentions, but I don't think they should limit the consumer's right to choose, nor the business' right to sell.
"Nanny state" FTL.

Truth.

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

California is a mess - I am glad I dont live there

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

As someone else said, let the fat get fatter. I don't give a f*ck, its their choice.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

dude the mexican food out here is the bomb.

 

[SyKo13 5,000+ posts]

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[tc3k101 5,000+ posts]

dude the mexican food out here is the bomb.

werd

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Hooray for more government control!

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