[xrp]

What happens to a society when its citizens lose all ability to think for themselves?

[miketheprof]

"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.

[Vaquero]

What happens to a society when its citizens lose all ability to think for themselves?

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.

[Old Professer]

Peace?

[longtermmemmory]

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.

[Red Badger]

Back to butter and lard, the original health foods!.........

[The_Victor]

What happens to a society when its citizens lose all ability to think for themselves?

They become Europeans?

[vpintheak]

Just another government tit for the idiots to suckle.

[JTHomes]

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.

[varyouga]

There's an Austrian bistro in this town that has this motto: "Where Bacon is an Herb!".

It's refreshing to see this place among hippie food places like Starbucks and Panera.

[wideawake]

There are tons of laws in the USA that prescribe standards for the quality of ingredients and components in food, homes, cars, etc.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

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?"

[Physicist]

Today hardly anyone notices the difference.

...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.

[A. Pole]

What happens to a society when its citizens lose all ability to think for themselves?

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.

[Wolfie]

What happens to a society when its citizens lose all ability to think for themselves?

Beats me. Ask the DEA.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[MEGoody]

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

And freedom has been lost.