Because France doesn't have any real problems -- like rioting Muslim youth -- for the government to deal with.

The French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness.

The National Assembly approved the bill in a series of votes Tuesday, after the legislation won unanimous support from the ruling conservative UMP party. It goes to the Senate in the coming weeks.

Fashion industry experts said that, if passed, the law would be the strongest of its kind anywhere. Leaders in French couture are opposed to the idea of legal boundaries on beauty standards

Now I'll grant that I prefer my women with a little meat on their bones rather than bird-boned with ribs sticking out like a Darfur refugee or concentration camp survivor (which describes most fashion models). But that isn't a matter for the government to legislate on. And if the legislative branch has time to debate such a measure, it is time for them to go into recess until serious problems face France for them to deal with.

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