Nonsense. TFA's also add texture/flavor, offer a higher melting point, greater stability under high temperatures and are lower in cost. There are many benefits to using TFA's that restaurants enjoy. In a restaurant setting, banning TFA's will ensure that oil becomes rancid more rapidly. Rancid fats contain high levels of free radicals. Cis fats are more susceptible to oxidation and therefore rancidity, than trans fats. You can bet that consumers will be ingesting a lot more free radicals due to this stupid legislation. How is that good for the public health?
All that without even beginning a discussion about personal freedom...or lack thereof.
All that without even beginning a discussion about personal freedom...or lack thereof.
The important thing in discussing personal freedom is that business owners know it's counter-productive to harm their customers. When something better than TFA's will serve the market better then it will happen.
The history of governments is wrought with better ideas that had disastrous unintended consequences. So prolific have they been that the disastrous effects were not unintended consequences, but rather, mere inconveniences to usurped power, glory and unearned paychecks. Surely politicians and bureaucrats would like for the inconvenient disastrous consequences of their actions to be hidden. To a large extent they have succeeded. The voting-for-lesser-of-evils duopoly.
The supposed benefits of trans fats are slight. They are being displaced from many products without notice. Commercial utility for manufacturers is not a cause worth dying for.