Denmark an Example After Transfat Ban

Associated Press ^ | 10/16/2006 | Maria Cheng

[maryz]

Preserving the delicacy of the traditional Danish pastries was a major concern

I thought the "traditional Danish pastries" were made with butter anyway. Did they slide in transfats instead of butter to save money/extend shelf life? Will they now go back to butter? Or (the article says they're "experimenting") will they come up with some other gawdawful substitute?

Personally, I love Crisco for pie crust and cookies (except maybe butter cookies). But Danish pastries are supposed to be made with butter!

[A. Pole]

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.

When I buy bread, I check the content - and buy bread with flour, water, salt and leaven or yeast only.

When I buy dairy products like sour cream I check that no carrageen guar carob gums are added. If the reading of content takes me more that few seconds I do not buy it.

Still it is possible because of government regulations which insure that the content is displayed properly.

[Calvin Locke]

And all that organic spinach and lettuce from California without the natural ingredient E.Coli listed...MMMM...MMMM. good.

[A. Pole]

No, but each Dane will be a little bit poorer, and eat food that is a little bit more stale.

It is better to eat a little less and of better quality. You will have fewer human hippos clogging the medical clinics.

You should rethink your concept of wealth.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I would like to see the states in the US adopt similar laws. Transfats are very harmful to a person's health. Also, they are totally unnecessary. At home, my Wife and I never eat foods that have transfats. However, when we eat out, we never know what restaurants fry their french fries, fried chicken, etc. I avoid eating KFC and McDonalds friend foods since I know they use cooking oils that contain transfats. Other places, if I don't know, I don't eat foods that may have transfats.
When I was in my teens and twenties, before I became more focused on my health eating habits, I probably did prodigious damage to my circulatory system. Had this law been in force, perhaps that would not be the case.

[Kirkwood]

Five years from now they will find that trans-fats reduced the incidence of cancer or some such thing.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Well by all means, let's go back to the day when there was no food regulation and businesses put whatever they wanted in edibles.

Transfat is a serious problem.

[William Terrell]

I know I'm cynical, but I don't think measures like this are because government officials care about your life. Hell, they don't even know you. What they do care about is the amount of money you can generate, and for how long, to the inc you work for and to the government that depends on you for financing.

[longtermmemmory]

Imagine if they had to use REAL SUGAR (as in cane) instead of fructose corn syrup as a sweetener.

[A. Pole]

Well by all means, let's go back to the day when there was no food regulation and businesses put whatever they wanted in edibles.

And in soft drinks :)

[longtermmemmory]

Could you imagine the sales plunge if ingrediants had to be explained in PLAIN ENGLISH!

Why those products that use euphamisms for MSG would gain dust on the shelves!

[antiRepublicrat]

Denmark is also a major producer of butter (and damn good butter at that), which directly competes with products that generally contain trans-fat.

[Young Werther]

At the State Fair of Texas the newest fried food is

FRIED COKE!

[HamiltonJay]

Oh come now, don't try to be logical.. don't you realize this is a liberty issue!! Corps should be free to sell deadly and dangerous things to the public.. who's the government to say that can't?

/SARCASM


Seriously, its a simple public health issue. When hydrogenated oils were introduced no one knew the dangers, if they had, they likely would never have been allowed to go to market. Now the dangers are known and policy will correctly change.

There was a time Coca Cola actually had Cocaine in it too.. history is full of examples of products being outlawed after safety or other issues are found... But don't try to tell that to some folks... its an infringement on their life worthy of taking up arms....

[A. Pole]

Oh come now, don't try to be logical.. don't you realize this is a liberty issue!! Corps should be free to sell deadly and dangerous things to the public.. who's the government to say that can't?

Something tells me that the owners and managers of these corporations do not eat the crap they produce.

[xrp]

Transfats are very harmful to a person's health. Also, they are totally unnecessary.

Just like cigarettes. Should those be banned also?

However, when we eat out, we never know what restaurants fry their french fries, fried chicken, etc.

Uhm...have you tried asking? If I am trying a new dish at a restaurant, I ALWAYS ask "how is this prepared?"

[MEGoody]

The french fries are still crispy. The pastries are still scrumptious. And the fried chicken is still tasty.

And freedom has been lost.

[MEGoody]

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.

Uh, you're supposed to think about it before you order it.

[Lazamataz]

I will not be satisfied until there is a government plan that regulates every single activity I engage in, or contemplate engaging in, every single day of my life.

I will, of course, need an armed government agent to accompany me so that I do not commit any 'crimes of action or inaction'.

[Lazamataz]

Please control me.