Mississippi, the most obese state in America, has passed a Bill prohibiting any city, town or county from introducing laws that restrict what people can eat or drink.
The new law will also ban local officials from forcing restaurants to label menus with calorie contents in a state that has topped obesity charts for seven years in a row and where 35 per cent of adults are deemed overweight.
Gregory Holloway, a politician who voted for the Bill in the state senate, said: “If you want to go eat 20 Big Macs, you can eat 20 Big Macs.”
The legislation has been branded the “anti-Bloomberg” Bill — a reference to the proposal by Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, to ban the sale of large fizzy drinks. Mr Bloomberg’s law was overturned by a court this week.
The Mississippi Bill has prompted widespread criticism from healthy eating groups, which say Mississippi is the last place that needs such a law.
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Mississippi, the fattest state in the U.S., bans anti-obesity laws
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