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04/16/2008: "French bill takes aim at those who glamorize the ultra-thin"

In image-conscious France, it may soon be a crime to glamorize the ultra-thin. A new French bill cracks down on Web sites that advise anorexics on how to starve " and could be used to hit fashion industry heavyweights, too.

The groundbreaking bill, adopted Tuesday by Parliament's lower house, recommends fines of up to $71,000 and three-year prison sentences for offenders who encourage "extreme thinness." It goes to the Senate in the coming weeks.

[ Now they need a similar bill to outlaw the encouragement of obesity, which is a far larger problem. At least the anti-fattists can't say it's unfair, since incitement to thinness was outlawed first. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080415/ap_on_re_eu/france_anorexia