Los Angeles banned fast food restaurants in 2008, but people are fatter than ever. Clearly we need stronger food bans... Why Los Angeles' Fast Food Ban Did Nothing To Check Obesity http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/20...es-fast-food-ban-did-nothing-to-check-obesity There's a researcher at the RAND Corporation who has been building a reputation as a curmudgeonly skeptic when it comes to trendy ways to fight America's obesity epidemic. First, Roland Sturm took aim at the idea that "food deserts" — areas without well-stocked grocery stores — cause unhealthy diets and obesity. His studies found that they do not. When Los Angeles decided in 2008 to ban new fast-food restaurants in some of the city's poorest neighborhood, Sturm was skeptical that it would help lower obesity rates. Now Sturm, an economist, has taken a close look at what LA's fast-food ban has accomplished. He concludes in new paper published online by the journal Social Science & Medicine that there's no evidence it had any effect at all. In fact, obesity rates in South Los Angeles and other neighborhoods the law was aimed at increased faster than in other parts of the city or other parts of the county. (More at above url)
Ask Bloomberg how that soda ban worked out. While we are at it we take anything kids will actually want to eat like pizza off the school lunch menus and serve them mushy string beans instead (thanks Michele).
So the underlying assumption was that blacks were to dumb to feed themselves? They needed white liberals to tell them what to eat? How is it that liberals want to tell us how to do everything thing in our lives, even down to how much toilet paper we use, but it is conservatives who supposedly are against personal freedom?