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January 11, 2007
Los Angeles May Ban Trans Fats
Artificial trans fats hysteria has spread to California, where bureauweenies are looking into the feasibility of banning them from restaurants, as has already been done in New York City.
The idea that trans fats — aka "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil" — are a serious threat to public health is debatable, to put it mildly. But the threat of trans fats mania to our right to make up our own minds about what we eat is beyond dispute.
Predicts Jot Condie of the California Restaurant Association:
What's next? Butter, cheese or anything that has saturated fat, which accounts for 15 percent of the average American diet, and also is not healthy, but that also needs to be taken in moderation.
The Brits are one step ahead of you, Jot.
On a tip from Metalgarth.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 11, 2007 10:08 AM
Comments
So we should be allowed to make up our minds about what we eat, even if it might harm us, but may not decide which plants to smoke or ingest? The line seems rather arbitrary. I've always wondered how neo-conservatives can fight so earnestly to uphold a right in one case and prohibit that same right in other cases.
Posted by: Wake up fools at January 11, 2007 10:40 AM
i will kill for my cheese! and it will be justified!
Posted by: nanc at January 11, 2007 10:42 AM
More empirical support for the link between drug abuse, brain damage, and moonbattery, courtesy of Snooze Alarm.
Posted by: V the K at January 11, 2007 11:10 AM
Massachusetts is also on the no trans-fats bandwagon. Pretty soon the only things we'll be allowed to eat will be crabgrass and tree bark (harvested from trees that died naturally, of course).
Posted by: Pam at January 11, 2007 11:19 AM
WUF's has a good point. I wonder what the total costs are, between eating unhealthy and smoking crack or weed. (Damage to yourself and others, including tax payer's money) But the latest news of banning plants to smoke or ingest, cigarettes in this case which are legal, was from Nancy P in DC, who is not a Neo-Con.
Posted by: MB at January 11, 2007 11:42 AM
The trans-fats jihad reminds me of food fads in previous centuries. At one time or another, pretty much every food was considered unhealthy or deadly.
The lefties moan constantly about right-wingers wanting to control their lifestyles, but it's the left-wingers they put in power who are actually doing it.
Posted by: V the K at January 11, 2007 11:44 AM
More empirical support for the link between drug abuse, brain damage, and moonbattery, courtesy of Snooze Alarm
(Ultrafool V the K demonstrates his intellectual prowess...)
The obvious inconsistency in his political positions so befuddles him he must resort to banal insults. Let's really shake his foundations! Somebody tell him the Bible doesn't admonish against ingesting certain plant extracts.
Posted by: Wake up fools at January 11, 2007 12:34 PM
MB, keep in mind that socialized medicine notwithstanding, all costs of undertaking risky activity are internalized, meaning they're accounted for by the individual engaging in them. If such costs are to dictate public policy, then you must also ban most sports, driving, surgery, etc., for these too are all risky endeavors that might cause injury or death.
Posted by: Wake up fools at January 11, 2007 12:41 PM
WUF,
If thats true, then why did Bubba (not a Neo-Con) sue the tobacco industry and not Nike or Reebok?
Posted by: MB at January 11, 2007 4:01 PM
Man, I've got the munchies.
Posted by: Steve at January 11, 2007 6:14 PM
MB, obviously, Monica didn't like the "taste" of their cigars.
Posted by: Steve at January 11, 2007 6:16 PM
