Yup. Ice Cream bought a spot in the 1940s. Heck, butter and magarine even got to share a food group!
Posted on 11/09/2013 9:10:16 AM PST by Olog-hai
They are among our most personal daily decisions: what to eat or drink. Maybe what to inhale.
Now that the governmentºs banning trans fat, does that mean it’s revving up to take away our choice to consume all sorts of other unhealthy stuff? …
In the tug-of-war between public health and personal freedom, the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to ban trans fats barely rates a ripple.
Hardly anyone defends the icky-sounding artificial ingredient anymore, two decades after health activists began warning Americans that it was clogging their arteries and causing heart attacks. …
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The government is here to save us from ourselves. They know what’s best for us.
There's lots of money to be made here, and the people who stand to make it are buying the laws to give them their monopoly.
When I want the feral government to tell me what I may and may not eat, I’ll so inform it; when I want the feral government to tell me what caliber I may and may nor carry, I’ll let it know that, too.
Wasn’t trans-fat a result of the FDA’s war on real fat?
Is this different from tranny fat?
When the food industry developed this enhanced fat, the masses flocked to it because it was in convenience foods, ever mind that common sense should have told them it wasn’t natural or good-so let them go ahead and keep shoveling it in-I wouldn’t eat the crap, but that is just me-eating natural foods enables you to truly enjoy the flavors of what you eat, especially the fresh fruits.
Processed and fast food was never on the menu when I was a kid, and that porker-making food pyramid was never considered, either-I did the same with my family as an adult. None of us who eat a natural diet are overweight, but rather on the thin side. I believe natural foods and no drugs are the best way to live, but it is a choice-let everyone have their own choice, and leave them the hell alone.
JERF - Just Eat Real Food
Sort of-think margarine being marketed as “good” versus butter and natural oils like olive being “bad”-it was all in the marketing techniques...
Instead of seeing something like “oatmeal lowers cholesterol”, etc on labels, I’d rather see the words “this product is real food” on the packages of unprocessed stuff-much simpler and covers all the bases.
“They know what’s best for us.”
Not really but they do create black markets whether they
know it or not.
You can’t get fired for being transexual... but I can be arrested for selling transfats.
What a world.
I think most everyone will be hard pressed to find any trans-fat items on US grocery shelves. The Trans Fat scare from years ago made manufacturers shift their fat formulations on their products.
This Ban is just feel-good PR and meaningless.
Actually a fair amount of “snack” type foods contain hydrogenated oils ie. cookies, crackers, cakes etc.
Surprised me to see that Betty Crocker herbed mash potatoes contain it. Too bad I like those.
Now they’re finally beginning to realize that animal fats, coconut oil, peanut oil,butter, cheese all the things that they swore were so bad for us are far better than the “healthier substitutes.
I detoxed starting four years ago when I accepted that even a little bit of un-natural or over-processed ingredients is too much. When I first started, it was diffuicult, because so much had sneak ingredients.
It's getting better. But as far as trans-fats? They're not food, and when they're removed, nobody notices. Saying they can't be use in food is no different from saying you can't use cyanide or petroleum, for example. Next thing I'd like to see go for the same reason is high fructose corn syrup. JMHO
As a matter of principal, I’m against most government regulation, but clearly SOME regulation is desirable. For example, putting poison in food is something that should obviously be outlawed. And believe me, manufactured trans fat, which is a synthetic, plastic version of REAL fat is indeed a poison. Granted, it’s a SLOW poison, but it is a poison nonetheless. There’s no place for this poison in the food supply, regardless of one’s political persuasion.
Most Trans Fat is gone off the shelves
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/231082811.html
Minn. firms: Most trans fats already gone, but more work remains
Article by: MIKE HUGHLETT , Star Tribune Updated: November 7, 2013 - 7:51 PM
I miss Trans-Fats, Oreos don’t taste or crunch the same and crackers nowadays just don’t hold up to peanut butter or other spreads - they just fall apart under the knife.
I miss the old Crisco too.
Many manufacturers replaced trans fats with other fake fats.
Can’t wait until they Ban those too - lol
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