If it was such a problem that it cost us all close to $600 per person, each year, you would think that the government would demand something be done about it!

Like, perhaps, insisting that people with a BMI over a certain number (say, 30 for obese, or 40 for “morbidly obese”, which BTW means “deathly fat”) pay much more for their health care, if they can get it at all!

But wait, they did, via ObamaCare!

The U.S. health care reform law of 2010 allows employers to charge obese workers 30 percent to 50 percent more for health insurance if they decline to participate in a qualified wellness program.

Really? Coulda fooled me — every time I’ve observed ducks they want nothing to do with machines.

The industry has had 8 years to get ready for this ban on cruelty toward this species of waterfowl — deal with it.

I doubt that Western Civilization as we know it will come to a crashing halt on the morning of July 1st because of this…so move on.

We have ‘bigger’ problems to solve — like the ‘exploding’ obesity epidemic in this country and the Medicare bills that we will all have to ‘fork’ over our taxes to pay for…

Comments above notwithstanding, I like Senator Burton a lot — but he’s just not well-educated on this issue.

The following nine restauranteurs need to be added to the (bold listing) “Northern California region” list:

Jason Berthold, RN74, San Francisco
Pajo Bruich, Lounge ON20, Sacramento
Chris Cosentino, Incanto, San Francisco
Didier Dutertre, Bistro Moulin, Monterey
Molly Hawks, Hawks Restaurant, Granite Bay
Patrick Mulvaney, Mulvaney’s BandL, Sacramento
Randall Selland, Selland Family Restaurants, Sacramento
Michael Thiemann, Ella Dining Room and Bar, Sacramento
Noah Zonca, The Kitchen, Sacramento

With that, we see that 73 of the 103 (~71%) “whine-a-lots” are from this region, which represents maybe 1/3 of the population of California.

Oh, we ARE such liberals up here, compared to our brethen down in LA/SD, aren’t we?

Cruelty is cruelty, no matter what kind of “skirt” you want to put on it (or yourself).

Just because we can (force feed “lesser” species to morph them into yummy morsels) doesn’t mean we should, any more than we should demand that able bodied 12 year olds should be allowed (er, forced if their economic circumstances allow) to work in factories (or as janitors, as Gingrich promoted) for 40+ hours per week.

Gandhi was right.

Who knows what happened to Stark.