Posted on 10/17/2006 7:08:12 AM PDT by xrp
"Today hardly anyone notices the difference"
Meaning that, two years later, they are used to having the government telling them what they can and can't eat.
if you are going to a restaurant and eating food fried in the equivilent of WD-40, when do you get to think about what you are eating.
you can go back to Hamurabi's codes and see that if a builder builds a defective house and it falls on you and kills you, then the builder will also be killed.
Peace?
actually there is precidence for this.
COAL used to be used as a food coloring.
Turn of the LAST centurey food makers used whatever they wanted and never told the public.
If we could train people to eat plastic food, there would be no shelf life problem.
Remember folks this is for PROcESSED food with all those indiciferable chemicals listed on the side.
Back to butter and lard, the original health foods!.........
They become Europeans?
Just another government tit for the idiots to suckle.
I think we need to be clear on what trans fat is.
trans fat is a fat substitute which has a longer shelf life. It is cheep to use and produce.
This is like trying to market sacarin as sugar and not telling anyone.
I see where you are going with this, and we're probably on the same page to some extent. But hydrogenated oils are in so many foods and really not very good for you. You might think you are making a healthy choice with a whole wheat cracker with some peanut butter, but unless you look closely you don't know that they've put these poisonous fats in both products. It's hard to make a choice when you don't have one. Big Food likes it because they extend shelf life and are cheap, so they put it in almost any processed food you can find. But healthier substitues are available and I'm all for at least labeling of trans fat info so people can make informed choices.
I can't stand lard, but I make my own butter. I know exactly what's going into it, namely cream and nothing else.
Golly, thanks Nanny. Whatever would we do without you.
Now, would you make sure that the servings we get in restaurants are "healthy" and "balanced?"
...said the frogs, as they proceeded to boil.
It is still too early to tell if removing transfat from food in Denmark has improved the country's health.
Wait a minute, I thought Denmark was an "example". An example of what? Nothing health-related, apparently.
If each citizen had to think about every little detail and to be a chemistry expert, he would not have time for living. Government should prevent putting poisons into food.
Do not worry, your corporations will not go bankrupt because of this ban.
Usually longer shell "life" goes together with lower nutritional value and more problems with digestion.
In other words, if it is not good for bugs, it is not good for you.
Citizens should definitely think for themselves, but the producers and sellers of food need to be honest about what they actually put into food, and has an obligation not to add things that are destructive to general health.
Beats me. Ask the DEA.
No, but each Dane will be a little bit poorer, and eat food that is a little bit more stale. A mortal wound? No. What's one more cut among a thousand?
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