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LA fights fast food, fat and freedom
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to put a one-year moratorium on the construction of any new fast-food restaurants in a 32 square-mile area of Los Angeles, in an effort to fight rising obesity in one of the city’s poorest areas. This is a clear example of America’s new philosophy of legislating against rights and freedoms, as opposed to encouraging people to take responsibility for their own actions. There’s a lot of things the LA City Council could do to fight obesity, but this isn’t one of them. The LA City Council would be better served working to improve schools, so young people are educated about proper diet and the importance of activities such as sports, and other interests. Ironically even cooking classes would better serve people both young and old, because they could learn that there is more to life than a Big Mac and Fries. Or how about a local ad campaign to increase awareness of the dangers of obesity? The LA City Council would be better served organizing funding for parks and organized secure activities within those parks to get people off their asses, while at the same time they might even develop more of a sense of community among their citizens. With the cost of gas so high, the LA City Council would be better served to create safe bicycle lanes of passage through the city, along with bike racks throughout the 32 square-mile area, in the hopes of encouraging people to park their cars and get the exercise and social benefits of biking, while at the same time they might save a little money on gas. Instead of negative restrictive legislation in the hopes to save people from themselves, in an area that already has plenty of fast-food restaurants, this move is pure politics and more symbolic than substantive. Maybe if decent jobs and job training were more readily available to the residents of this “poor” area, they could afford to pay more than $4 for lunch, and maybe they would eat better. But the bottom line is that it is none of the government’s business to try to regulate what people eat, how often they eat, and where they eat. This country is based on the concept of freedom and choices, while creating a business environment that encourages competition and quality. The City Council would be well within their rights to regulate building codes and signage, safety issues, and even to require all restaurants to post the nutritional information of the food they serve (not that many take the time to read it). But this type of legislation is a waste of time and money, totally ineffective, and will most likely only lead to America's second most popular pastime after eating, costly litigation. As a potential investor in the city, I should have the right to choose between taking my money and investing it in a grocery store or a McDonald's, and the freedom to choose between selling Brussels sprouts or French Fries. And my potential clients have the right to choose between being skinny or fat, because it is a personal choice (i.e. to graze or not to graze, that is the question). One other question for the LA City Council. I’d be curious to see how they define fast-food? Because technically, if I go to one of the new grocery stores they hope to encourage, and walk up to the Deli counter, I can order fried chicken that’s dripping in grease and calories, and be back out to my car in less than ten minutes. That’s fast, and if I do it every day, I get fat. This law is ludicrous. Now if the LA City Council could only come up with a way to stop the over 8000 violent crimes which have taken place in their city so far in 2008, they’d really be on to something. William S. James, Cheeseburger Advocate |
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