{"id":2352,"date":"2003-12-23T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-23T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:58:24","slug":"im-being-criminalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/12\/23\/im-being-criminalized\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Being Criminalized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Obligatory photo of a faceless fat person
(Courtesy of AOL)<\/i><\/small><\/center><\/div>    According to an AP article<\/a> today, “With the U.S. Surgeon General calling obesity an epidemic, legislators nationwide [\u2026] have considered scores of bills this year that would, among other things: get kids exercising; warn restaurant eaters about fat, sugar and cholesterol on the menu; and, ban sugary sodas and fattening chips from school vending machines.” In Louisiana they’re even going so far as to pay for the trendy yet risky and potentially life-threatening stomach stapling procedure.
    Says a West Virginia wellness manager: “If we don’t get a handle on this, this generation of kids coming up will have a shorter life span than their parents. That’s scandalous.” While counters a food lobbyist: “There’s a lot of fear and hysteria. We’re allowing government and these public health groups to dictate our food choices to us.”   [2:25 PM]<\/b>
    Update<\/b>: In a similar story, on the other side of the fence, fast food companies are looking to government<\/a> to protect them from nuisance suits. [Archivist’s note<\/b>: Link missing.]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obligatory photo of a faceless fat person(Courtesy of AOL)     According to an AP article today, “With the U.S. Surgeon General calling obesity an epidemic, legislators nationwide [\u2026] have considered scores of bills this year that would, among other … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-links","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}