Saturday, October 10, 2009

Ignorant legislators

The city of Los Angeles banned new or expansions to fast-food restaurants in low-income areas as the politicians blamed the food for obesity rather than the mouths.
The whole song and dance is that eating healthy is expensive. It is not. My mother made do raising 5 kids on barely above minimum wage pay.
A study by the Rand Corporation found that far from preying on the poor, fast-food outlets avoid those neighborhoods because of crime and well, the customers don’t have much money.
“Researchers found there were about 19 fast-food chain restaurants per 100,000 residents in South Los Angeles, while there were 29 per 100,000 people in affluent West Los Angeles and 30 per 100,000 residents for all of Los Angeles County. There are significantly fewer restaurants of any type per person in South Los Angeles compared to Los Angeles County overall,” a Rand press release said.
Next excuse.
The study is here.

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