Fast food ban, do you agree?

LOL! i know that's right girl. cause i love me a nice slice of pizza with chicken and mushrooms with a little extra cheese. I get where they are coming from. I think that there are so many fst food places and most of them are not doing what they are suppose to do and that is putting healthier choices on the menues as well as letting you know how many calories are in each item. we should be able to eat what we want when we want where we want. and i am not comfortable with anyone telling me different.

I agree with you. If the government is concern of too many citizen getting obese. They should educate first in the school. Explained in details why eating too much in fast foods had side effects. What foods to avoid. The problem is people lies heavily in the foods sold out in the fast foods.

I read something about that just the other day. What they want to do is have a healthier choice of restaurants open in the poor neighborhoods and not allowing new fast foods to open any more places there. In my opinion what they need to do is start educating people how to shop and cook better meals. How to shop better with their foodstamps. I know that I don't always make the best choices with my grocery shopping. They also need to have cooking and shopping classes before a person is allowed to get the food stamps. But I still want to go to my favorite fast food when I so chose.

mommyboo - hi. Why does the government get involved in things best left alone, rather than concentrate on areas and issues where we need help! California has always been ahead of the rest of the nation in making sensible policies. I heard last week that no one can build anything in your state, unless they can prove there will be a twenty year supply of water.(a generalized summary) Smart! Fast food ban? The news was a bit inflammatory, (surprise, surprise) and then after your further investigation, the ban made a bit more sense. But I still don't like it. Remember that Sylvester Stallone movie where the government banned salt because it was bad for us? What was the name of that movie? I can't remember. GGRR. Fast food bans sound too close to the truth portrayed in futuristic (or predictive) movies. Did you know that the president controls the amount of commercials we are subjected to in between shows? Ridiculous. Now, I'm really going to take a hit, especially because a seat belt saved my daughter's life. But, there was never a law, we used common sense and buckled up. Now, we can't smoke in public buildings. Again, a touchy issue. I see both sides, but did we need the government to enforce the "correct" healthy choice? What about car seats, and mandatory helmets for kids riding bikes? All good ideas, but do we need more laws that seem to protect us? At the same time, they steal away our human rights, bit by bit. Aren't humans capable of protecting their own bodies without laws? They start with small things that we fret over, but eventually accept. They get us accustomed to conforming, then they hit us with the big stuff. Big Brother here we come. I'll be with you eating those burgers for CNN, except I'm vegetarian, but maybe no one will notice the difference. Please, all mylotters, no offense intended. I'm not arguing the points of safety, I'm questioning the government's authority to enforce them.

if this will happen here in manila, philippines independt living individuals with a hectic sched everyday will die very soon...i mean i dont have anybody that will cook for me, i am to tired to do it myslef plus i am not good at it..and since restaurants are more expensive fastfood is a good alternative... hey i hope this wont do in here...and no fastfood means no burger!!no way!!hehehe

I think that the government is just doing that to level the playing field for healthier food. But I really can't agree that banning is the right thing to do because by then you are invading other people's rights and preference. I like to eat healthy food but form time to time I also need to eat some fast food because of certain circumstances. Perhaps the government should just make healthier food more available or set examples of eating healthy food during some government event or holiday. But what I think would be the best thing to do about this is to remove the lobbyist of the fast food chain. LOL

Hi friend. I didn't know this news before. Thank you for this information. If you told that you heard it from your friend, I'd consider it as a rumor then. But as you said, you learned it from CNN, which is no doubt a very reliable source, draw my attention. We all know that fast food is not healthy to our health, but it is the only thing we get when we are out of our home. So, it'll not be very wise to ban them. And I feel it is quite impossible task too. The choice of having fast food should be given to public itself.

I"m with you in this one. I don't like the path yhe government is taking not only with this fast food trend but also in many other things where I feel like big brother is watching. As you say if they want people to make healthy choices support healthy options, but don't remove other options, babysitting for the masses is not the way. I am am not a big fan of fast food. Both us and the kids eat it very rarely, but I do not take it lightly that the government decides for me if I should eat it or not. I am an adult, I have a brain and I can use it. What do they want, a population that can't think or make decisions and needs the government to decide for them? FOr that they might as well populate the country with sheep.

If the government is going to ban new fast food places from popping up all across the country (not just in low income areas) then fine with me. But they had better be building healthy, low cost alternatives instead!

A ban on fast food places? I think this is something out of the Karl Marx book of Economics! At wht point in time did the government have to step in and say 'you're too fat so we are going to put a ban on this'? Too funny. I think the government is getting too much like Big Brother and needs to be put back into its place. The real reason why people are too fat? Because they lack the discipline to control themselves. And they need Big Brother to help them to it. The real reason why Sallie Mae got into trouble? Because it lacked the discipline to control themselves. Here comes Big Brother to help and bail them out! What ever happen to 'make a choice and face the consquences'? It is same reason why children are failing today.

Good day.. I think that Government should do what they are suppose to do without bias or self interest. If fast foods prove to be detrimental to the health of our future generation, then banned it, I'm with that. The problem I see is there are too much freedom and very poor responsibilities. Obesity no offense) came to be because of improper nutrition, increase input, decrease output, exacerbated if the input are fatty in nature which we can see in fries among other things. I want my future kids to be healthy and if by banning fast food can help them attain that why not? and together with they should also banned smoking. Just my 1 cent.

I think that fast food should not be banned. I will say that I understand their intentions. They think that, if they eliminate fast food options, it will help in the "Battle Against Obesity." Perhaps it will. But, Fast Food businesses are not making people eat there. People are pulling into their parking lots or going through their drive-thrus and ordering meals from their own will. ALSO, fast food establishments offers paying jobs to a lot of people. Finding jobs is hard enough, and fast food businesses are always hiring, and most are not that picky about who they give a chance to. A lot of other businesses require a good amount of experience in the work force before they will hire, and places such as McDonalds give people a chance to get it.

It should not be baned. Fast food doesn't merely give us nutrition, most important is the convenience it offer to us. People have the right to choose what they eat. If there are better choice, people will turn to it. But there are not other better time-saving choice.

Yeah, I agree, it's not right for the government to interfere with what we choose to eat. Certainly they can fund groups of people to try and educate us and suggest we eat certain things, but banning is just going down the wrong road. It's also slightly scary what the government could do if they took this too far...Though, personally, I foresee a lot of outrage if they do take it too far, so I'm not too worried right now.

I agree with you they should not try to control what we eat. More education on what we are consuming would be good. After that, it is our choice.

In honesty, I think if they made the healthy choices more affordable more ppl would eat them. Most of their dollar items and lower priced things are the really bad for you things. I think ppl need to take responsibility for their own actions. By taking away the options, your taking away the responsibility too. Before you know it ppl will DEPEND on the government to tell them what to eat, what to wear, what to say and what to think. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

I agree with you. I very rarely eat at fast food restaurants any more and I have made that decision. But to have the government make that decision for me is not right. Eating fast food in moderation is probably ok for you, it is when someone chooses to eat frequently that it might be a problem for them but it is their choice whether right or wrong. Plus I don't think the government should be telling the buisness they are putting on a ban. They use the reason that it is for the safety of Americans, can we not think for ourselves? Do we really need protection from ourselves? What will be banned next?

Does the government know what's good for everybody? I would think that these people making the proposals are people who never got elected. They never had their ideas tested in an election. I suspect if they ran for office they would lose.

I will agree. Actually fast food are quite expensive, some more not healthy. But I don't think it can be banned cause there are a lot of people like the fast food. It's easier for them.

Oh my I hope it stays a proposal forever! Fast food is unhealthy but there are some healthy options to choose from now. It's also affordable and convenient, which is why I eat fast food sometimes. I seriously hope that instead of banning fast food chains, they'd promote exercise by building more parks, basket ball courts, tracks for running, etc.