Many will recall the
bill introduced in Mississippi that would ban restaurants from serving obese people.
Now it seems some recognize that such a law would be unworkable, so they're trying to tweak it along to be more palatable for passage.
A
press release today touts the ideas of public interest law professor John Banzhaf, who suggests "Focusing your bill on protecting children rather than adults would remove the major objection to it, and provide a strong argument for it - one likely to be echoed by many groups concerned about child health and welfare."
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