Big Fast Food

Q: In a town near LA it is now a law that fast food restaurants cannot be built. What are your thoughts?

A: We know after years of studies that tobacco is killing people. Appropriate steps have been taken (such as raising taxes on cigarettes) to try to prevent cigarette companies from having free reign to kill their customers. We're now seeing more and more studies on how deadly trans fats and other fast food ingredients are. What we're seeing is that in poorer areas, with less education people are forced to eat this deadly food because there aren't any affordable alternatives. Big corporations like McDonalds are getting rich off the stomachs of poor people that don't have the money to eat healthy rich people food. Without some kind of intervention, these people would be forced to become obese and would eventually die of some obesity related health problem. Hurrah for someone who had the courage to stand up to these evil corporations and help protect the poor.