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To: Molly Pitcher

Trans fats are unhealthy, with an abundance of scientific evidence to that effect. Friedman would probably not have opposed banning them in most applications as he saw a role for the State in setting the "rules of the game," with public health a recognized basis for action.


31 posted on 12/20/2006 5:55:51 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

Assuming you are a conservative since you are here, do you really believe regulating trans fat is within the purview of a city government?


32 posted on 12/20/2006 6:00:31 AM PST by John W
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To: Rockingham
Trans fats are unhealthy, with an abundance of scientific evidence to that effect

Saturated fats and carbohydrates can also be unhealthy. Shouldn't they be banned too? As a matter of fact, most foods can be bad for you if they are overconsumed. If you overcook bacon, powerful carcinogens are formed. If you under-cook burgers you're at risk for e coli. Should the state force the food industry not to make crispy bacon if a customer wants it? Should we be forced to eat burgers that are only cooked well done? There is solid scientific evidence to back all of this up. We could save lives. Where does your doo gooding end?

When it comes to food, the state could regulate just about everything consumable for our own good. That might help impact the obesity epidemic. Or, they could leave us the hell alone instead of making decisions based on ignorance and highly questionable scientific evidence.

91 posted on 12/20/2006 9:28:23 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Rockingham
Hydrogenation of vegetable oils, which reduces the degree of unsaturation, started a hundred years ago. The process makes cis fats, and trans fats. Seventy years ago I read about hydrogenation as being a valuable advance in food processing in "Creative Chemistry", by E. E. Slossen. We used them abundantly during WW 2 to substitute for unavailable butter. I am yet to see the "abundance" of scientific evidence that they are bad for you. If they really really very bad it would have been obvious 50 years ago.
142 posted on 12/21/2006 5:54:26 PM PST by dr huer
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