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CBC Canada has a report on a law under consideration in France's lower house that would require models to meet a minimum body mass index standard.
The link between high fashion, body image and eating disorders on French catwalks may lead to a ban on super-skinny models.
Style-conscious France, with its fashion and luxury industries worth tens of billions of dollars, would join Italy, Spain and Israel, which all adopted laws against too-thin models on catwalks or in advertising campaigns in early 2013.
Under the proposed legislation, any model who wants to work has to have a body mass index (a type of height to weight ratio) of at least 18 and would be subject to regular weight checks.
The law would enforce fines of up to $79,000 [US] for any breaches, with up to six months in jail for any staff involved, French Socialist Party legislator Olivier Veran, who wrote the amendments, told newspaper Le Parisien.
The bill's amendments also propose penalties for anything made public that could be seen as encouraging extreme thinness, notably pro-anorexia websites that glorify unhealthy lifestyles and forums that encourage eating disorders.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is is a measure of relative size based on the mass and height of an individual.
c0lo's random thoughts:
- On one side: governments regulating the BMI... (large soda ban)... hmm?
- On the other side: how is this different from laws against public indecency, laws which are well-knitted into the fabric of westernized societies?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by arslan on Thursday April 09 2015, @02:04AM
Long food related stocks and short eating disorder pharma stocks!
On a more serious note, humanity seems to be progressively sliding to a Nanny state utopia... a sort of civilized terrorist state anyone?
(Score: 1) by wisnoskij on Thursday April 09 2015, @04:51AM
If we were a true nanny state the state would do something about the obesity epidemic killing millions of people. Instead we are just a fascist state who like enacting laws to control the weak and politically unpowerful
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @05:15AM
We=France?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sigma on Thursday April 09 2015, @08:07AM
Oui.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by FatPhil on Thursday April 09 2015, @08:14AM
Dr. Peter Attia: /The limits of scientific evidence and the ethics of dietary guidelines - 60 years of ambiguity/ (63:26)
https://vimeo.com/45485034
Do not interpret that for one second as me saying that the so-called "scientists" weren't equally culpable. They were the ones creating the lies that the US government was using as support. It would be nice to be able to trace the flow of money - why did the "scientists" make so many inforgivable mistakes?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Thursday April 09 2015, @12:57PM
Because of the lobbying efforts of the wheat, soy, corn and sugar industries.
IMHO, the gov't is culpable for 2 reasons - the 1st one you stated, and because they encourage poor eating habits in those dependent on public assistance. You can use food stamps to buy stuff that isn't even food, like Pepsi or potato chips.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday April 09 2015, @01:12PM
Easy to believe, but it would be nice to see the evidence. I suspect there's not enough transparency to be sure.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday April 11 2015, @06:16PM
Easy to believe, but it would be nice to see the evidence. I suspect there's not enough transparency to be sure
Just look at ingredients labels in grocery stores. Just the items that are required to be labeled show sugar and corn by products* in almost everything. Items that aren't, like beer, are also loaded with corn by products.
*By corn by products I mean corn starch, corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup. You can probably include anything labeled as food starch or modified food starch in with that, the effects are the same.