Los Angeles puts moratorium on more fast food places

The Los Angeles City Council has voted to keep any new fast food joints from opening in the poor sections of town in an effort to fight obesity.

There's no question fast food is bad for you, but consider a couple things: (1) an awful lot of "wealthy" people drive their expensive SUVs to McDonalds too; (2)if you really want to fight obesity, why not aggressively fund school and extra-curricular physical education and nutrition programs, and take vending machines out of schools, and make cities more conducive to bikers and walkers. Outright bans don't often work very well. Didn't we learn anything from Prohibition?

What's next? Bootleg Big Macs?