New York City wants trans fats off the menu

MSNBC ^ | Aug. 11, 2005 | AP

[PAMadMax]

The science behind your comment may be 100% correct, but that's not the point. COMPELLING restaurants to remove it from the food they serve? Somehow, someway I smell the familiar stench of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Now these food Nazis have the ear of the bureaucrats, and that is particularly odius.

[Gabz]

Somehow, someway I smell the familiar stench of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Your sense of smell is EXCELLENT.........also the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation most likely has it's $$, oops I mean fingers in this.

[varina davis]

One of my favorite restaurants years ago in California was called The Fat Cat Cafe. Wonderful food.

[Madame Dufarge]

The city’s request came two years after it outlawed smoking in bars, restaurants and offices, citing concerns about the ill effects of secondhand smoke

Isn't there literary term for this, foreshadowing?

[Sam Cree]

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[Sam Cree]

While I agree with everyone that our government has no business acting as a fat policeman, I do think that transfats are a legitimately dangerous product. Not because they are a fat, but because apparently they cause arteriosclerosis in a far more insidious way than something like lard. They are manufactured not for purposes of flavor or nutrition, but for ease of packaging. All the stuff that has them now, like say Ritz Crackers, did not have them 30 years ago. Banning transfats is not the same as banning just fat or sugar in that it's not necessarily an attempt to regulate fat intake, but an attempt to keep a needlessly dangerous artificial product that many people are unaware of out of mostly baked goods.

I can see it more along the lines of keeping a proven carcinogen out of food.

[exnavychick]

LOL...I never thought of it that way, but you're exactly right, imo. :)

[CSM]

"This may not be too much of a problem as transfats are used primarily in prepackaged rather than fresh baked goods."

Don't worry, this is just the foundation to monitoring the food of all restaurants. Transfats now, just fats later. Once the sheep are following along, terminology is easy to change to fit the agenda.

[The Foolkiller]

Hey, thanks for the ping. Yep-we've predicted this in MANY threads-to no avail. And now it's here.

[The Foolkiller]

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

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Oh, Yeah!! "It's for the public health"...

[technochick99]

I think the apprehension most have, which I share, is that "voluntary" policies like this have a way of becoming mandatory prohibitions.

Indeed. And what is not expressly forbidden is required.

[Gabz]

Then it should be dealt with by the FDA or USDA at the manufacturing level - not at the menu level in a piece meal way.

[The Foolkiller]

To an outsider like me, it seems to have gone downhill rapidly since Guliani left, and Bloomberg took over. Correct me if I'm wrong, but ol Mikey considers himself a Republican, doesn't he?

What a joke.

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DEAR GOD, how I PRAY that ratba$^#d RHINO doesn't get re-elected!! But...never underestimate the power of incumbency-I sure as hell don't. Nor do I underestimate the sheer stupidity of most voters. In fairness to Guliani (I'm not one of his biggest fans either), he did say a total smoking ban anywhere was not right.

[The Foolkiller]

There's no way they could force this, not without creating a 3-ring circus in court.

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Oh, really? That's what they said about kicking smokers outside, (where people can now throw garbage down on them from windows).

[mombonn]

Look at the majority of New Yorkers vs the majority of Detroiters.

Most New Yorkers are fit as compared to most Detroiters.

Trans fats aren't the problem, exercise is.

[The Foolkiller]

From everything I've heard/read, the problem with trans-fats is your body doesn't quite know how to process them.

[The Foolkiller]

Time to go back to lard, beef fat, and butter

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As there were far less cases of cancer when erybody ate these, I'm inclined to agree with you. When I was a kid, you didn't have all these additives/preservatives/steroids/God knows what in food.

[MarkL]

Cool!!! Bring back butter, bacon grease, and lard!

I don't care what anyone says, you can't make really good pie crusts or biscuits without lard!

Mark

[MarkL]

Trans-fats are nasty things, completely unnatural.

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

I can't wait until the "food police" realize that's what people are going to start doing... They're going to have kittens! Remember their reaction to coconut oil that some movie theaters were using to make popcorn?

Mark

[KevinDavis]

and I thought that freepers support a small limited government....