Limit Fast Food Chains By Law?
• Law
A New York City politician has proposed limiting the number of fast food places that are allowed in low-income neighborhoods. Here are some reactions:
“People love it to eat, and they’re working here. Why would politicians cut them?” he said.
“This is the United States, everyone’s just trying to make money,” said one smoothie-carrying customer.
“I think it’s an absurd solution - not just from the point of individual choice, it just wouldn’t work. If you love fast-food and you’re fat, you’d just go to another neighbourhood - and you probably wouldn’t jog there, you’d probably take a cab,” she told the BBC.
While I’ve felt sad when I’ve seen someone use their Food Stamps or subsidized food EBT card to buy a cart of junk food this kind of restriction of choice will never fly.