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Another Speechless Moment

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This is two in a row.

By CHRISTINA HOAG
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles City Council has approved a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a low-income area of the city.

The moratorium unanimously approved Tuesday is a bid to attract restaurants that offer healthier food choices to residents in a 32-square-mile area of South Los Angeles.

Councilwoman Jan Perry says residents at five public meetings expressed concern with the proliferation of fast-food outlets in the community plagued by above-average rates of obesity.

Nearly three-quarters of the restaurants in South L.A. are fast-food outlets. That’s a higher percentage than other parts of the city but the restaurant industry says the moratorium won’t help bring in alternatives.

Why would this ban provide an incentive for healthy restaurants to start up? First, a year isn’t long enough to recoup startup costs, so anyplace that moves in is almost guaranteed to lose money. Second, if the people wanted healthy food, some entrepreneur would have figured that out. Third, come on! Stop the nanny state. What’s next, are they going to dictate what %’s of foods we should eat at every meal?

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Jul 30, 2008
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