Some fat-haters in Mississippi want to see you starve. Raw Story has the unbelievable report that “[a] bill recently introduced in Mississippi’s state legislature would bar restaurants from serving people determined to be obese.”The state’s health department can even revoke permits of establishments that do not comply. No word on how the determination of “obesity” would be made. No word on if food establishments have to provide their own scales or have to perform BMI tests on potential customers. No word on how any McDonald’s will stay open. And no word on how punishing people who actually go out to restaurants is going to fix anything.
You might even file this as another sign of the great American police state we’re turning into, except no one has been wantonly tasered or forcibly strip searched … yet.
