The City Council is putting South Los Angeles on a diet.

The council voted unanimously Tuesday to place a moratorium on new fast food restaurants in an impoverished swath of the city with a proliferation of such eateries and above average rates of obesity.

The action is believed to be the first of its kind by a major city to protect public health.

“If you suppose that good intentions justify intruding on the lives and properties of your fellow citizens:
Do you appreciate being the target of somebody else’s good intentions, or haven’t you had that particular dubious pleasure yet?” Cat Farmer

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