A Little Old-Fashioned Fat-Hatred

This one from Alternet's Tara Lohan, a new set of health guidelines in Japan - backed up with big fines for companies who don't or can't force their employees to be all the same size - requires companies and local governments to measure the waist of every employee over 40.

I don't think I need to explain to anyone here how much wrong there is here.

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