New York City wants trans fats off the menu

MSNBC ^ | Aug. 11, 2005 | AP

[PAMadMax]

NEW YORK - New York City wants restaurants to narrow their list of ingredients — and maybe some waistlines — by cutting out trans fats.

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said the voluntary change could also help fight the city’s biggest killer, heart disease.

To comply, chefs would have to dump many margarines and frying oils, and possibly reworking long-held recipes for baked goods.

[PAMadMax]

Man, here goes the food police. They went after smoking and now this....

[billybudd]

Hard to imagine New York restaurants going along with this cr@p.

[mysterio]

Awesome. The fat people took a nap while the smokers were getting fleeced. Now it's their turn. A quick search of FR's archive will surely dig up countless posts predicting this. The nanny state has chewed up smokers and spit them out. On to the next!

[EggsAckley]

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Geez, what a scary title for that department.

Mental Hygiene . . . .?

[Mr. Mojo]

Sure, try telling New Yawkers they'll have to eat a tofu dog instead.

[Cyclopean Squid]

The future of New York restaurants.

Madness. Why not just make the move to gruel all at once.

[Mr. Mojo]

Mental Hygiene

A phrase taken right out of the early 20th century.

[Mr. Jeeves]

So if you have a dirty mind, the Department of Mental Hygiene will forcibly clean it for you? ;)

Unfortunately, I think a lot of posters here would endorse government intervention in such cases.

[JRios1968]

"First they came for the motorcycle riders...
Then they came for those who don't wear seat belts...
Then they came for the smokers...."

[Paradox]

While I am against government intervention in things like this, I wouldn't mind seeing a "voluntary ban" (oxymoron). Trans-fats are nasty things, completely unnatural.

[exnavychick]

I think we've seen this one coming. The nanny-state never sleeps!

[HIDEK6]

I think it is legal already to open a trans-fat-free restauraunt, advertise it as such, and put all the other restaurants in NY out of business.

Why do we need a law?

[EggsAckley]

Mental Hygiene
A phrase taken right out of the early 20th century.



No kidding. Chilling, isn't it?

[microgood]

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C.S. Lewis

[Modernman]

Trans-fats are nasty things, completely unnatural.

Health-wise, you're better off cooking with lard than with trans-fats. That says a lot.

[Gabz]

Why do we need a law?

To justify the jobs of busybodies, why else?

[KevinDavis]

I'm sure some of the nanny state freepers will support this..

[Gabz]

I'm so glad I left there while the city was still relatively sane ..............

[politicalwit]

" Mental Hygiene . . . .?"

Yes, applies to those that have **** for brains.