PJ Media

“The LA City Council is moving ahead with a plan to ban fast-food restaurants”

Nice misleading lede there. As the article makes clear, the proposed ban is on new fast-food restaurants. Perhaps the City Council has started to question whether a hypothetical city block that already houses a McDonald’s, a Burger King, a Taco Bell, a Subway, and a KFC really also needs a Wendy’s and a Popeye’s as well.

“considering what South Los Angeles really needs: self-sustenance[sic]”

And allowing corporate behemoths to install even more grease-and-corn-syrup outlets in neighborhoods that don’t need them, and maybe don’t even particularly want them, would encourage this how?