MISSISSIPI

Fat people are under attack in Mississippi. Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.

More than 30 percent of adults in Mississippi are considered it obese, according to a 2007 study by the Trust for America’s Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention.

So how would the restaurent management enfore the rule if it get passed? Sure they won't weigh every people enter the restaurent; or may be they have to.  The bill had no specifics about how obesity would be defined, or how restaurants were supposed to determine if a customer was obese.

Apparenly lawmakers knows this bill won't become a law. They are trying to draw attention to this severe obesity problem statewide. Lets see how it works.