It's possible to eat a healthful meal at almost any fast food

[MineralMan]

restaurant. It's possible to eat an unhealthful meal at almost any ordinary restaurant. Why is there such a bias against fast food restaurants? I see that, in Los Angeles, they're trying to prohibit any new ones in part of the city. I find this odd.

A visit to any fast food restaurant's website will show you the nutritional characteristics of their menu items. A Google search for healthy fast food brings up a number of articles in reputable publications which advise you how to eat in a healthful way at a number of them.

Isn't it all really a matter of making personal decisions? If I go to McDonald's, I choose items from their menu which won't break my normal diet. If I go to El Pollo Loco, I get food that is good for me to eat. If I order food at a taco truck, I choose it based on my knowledge of what is good for me and what is not. It's my decision, not that of someone who thinks, for some reason, that everything at a fast food restaurant is designed to make people obese. That's not the case, any more than the finest restaurant in town only offers healthful choices.

As progressives, is it our job to dictate where people may eat, or what they may order? I don't think so, but many people who call themselves progressives seem to feel it is their duty to do so. I don't understand this, to be quite frank. Is it not our job to educate rather than to prohibit people from make their own choices? That's what I've always thought.