Fast Food - Should It Be Banned?

[RagnaToad]

I think a fast food tax would be a great initiative to get less people visiting those kind of places regularly. Plus like someone mentioned, the extra money is indirectly spent on medical costs anyway, so in a way it would have a double positive effect. It's a fact that preparing healthy food at home with all the necessary veggies isn't actually cheap, and fast food is an attractive alternative to a home cooked meal.

Someone brought up the alcohol prohibition thing they had in the 1920's. It didn't work because taking away a right from the population in order to punish a small group will never be well received. The measures that were taken afterwards and the limitations on alcoholic beverages were a good solution. Maybe we should consider some restrictions on overweight people's eating habits. What are they doing clogging up their arteries even more anyway, when they should be taking serious actions for their own sake. Note that I'm talking about dangerously fat people here.

EDIT: Removed the rest of my post.

peace,

Rags