Los Angeles City Council To Ban Building Of New Fast Food Restaurants
Because apparently “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” doesn’t include “eating what you want to eat.”
A proposal that would place at least a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a broad swath of neighborhoods, mostly in South Los Angeles, won unanimous support from a Los Angeles City Council committee Tuesday.
If approved by the full council and signed by the mayor, the law would prevent fast-food chains from opening new restaurants in a 32-square-mile area, including West Adams, Baldwin Village and Leimert Park. The moratorium would be in effect for one year, with the possibility of two six-month extensions.
Is fast food bad for you? Absolutely. Is it a good decision to eat fast food? Not usually. Obviously grabbing a quick burger occasionally isn’t likely to impact your overall health much one way or another, but constant fast food dining will lead to future health problems.
But all that being said, are we not free citizens? If we want to gorge ourselves on fast food isn’t that our right in a free society?
Seems to me that we too often forget that “freedom” means being free to make bad decisions as much as it means being able to make good decisions as long as those “bad decisions” don’t infringe upon the rights of other.
And certainly a guy eating a cheeseburger isn’t hurting anyone but himself.
