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The Temperance Movement for the Prohibition of Fried Chicken

Mar 29th, 2011by Jennifer Dirmeyer.
By: Alexander Cartwright ’13
South Los Angeles city council recently began an initiative to reduce the number of fast food restaurants in the South L.A area by denying newbusiness permits requested by fast food establishments. The goal is to encourage healthy eating by decreasing access to unhealthful options. According to the city council, restricting the amount of fastfood restaurants will have a positive impact on citizen’s health. However, the city council’s actions, no matter how genuine their desire to improve citizen’s lives, will be just another case wheresocial planners fail to engineer a “better man” through the prohibition of his vices.
The council hopes that under their new policy, consumers will eat more healthful food since fewer unhealthfulchoices will leave room in the market for a greater number of healthful food choices. However, the politicians have not considered the unintended consequences of how the restaurant industry and consumerswill respond to a decrease in the number of fast food restaurants.
Even though fast food and healthful food are both “food,” the two goods are not close substitutes. One does not receive the same...