The Nanny State Strikes Again!
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Regarding the trans-fat issue, I'm all for being a healthy stoat but this notion of the Government telling me what I can or can't eat, telling restaurants and chefs how they can cook their food and MOST OF ALL, the fact that Dick's Restaurants (a cornerstone of Seattle fast-food culture) is hesitant, saying that they haven't found a trans-fat-free product that "meets their standards" causes me GREAT concern. If Dick's isn't happy with it, then that carries great weight with me (if you'll pardon the pun)
If Dick’s can still taste great without trans fat’s I’m all for it. I drill out of Ft Lawton, so Dicks is where I go to eat lunch 50% of the time. You just can’t beat those milkshakes.
As long as it doesn’t interfere with their Starbucks, they won’t mind. Nothing can interfere with their Starbucks, not even a tax to help the children.
I cannot STAND having the state tell me what I can and cannot eat, and what restaurants can and cannot cook with. How vilely invasive!
My comment submitted to their moderator,
I think it is a fantastic idea. King County residents need to trim down and become healthier and live longer to pay more taxes. Who knows, maybe less transfats will clear the heads up there so the next election counting can be done without initially missing and losing so many ballots, until the third recount.
Smoking is banned, for our health. Helmets must be worn, for our health. So why not food as well? You want a nanny state, why go half way? Let’s ban everything someone else doesn’t like.
Why don’t they just ban fat people from public establishments?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Trans-fat is poison—or, perhaps more accurately, a kind of plastic, not a food. It goes and lodges in arteries and fat cells and never comes out. It doesn’t belong in food. There’s nothing “conservative” about insisting on continuing to use it, or calling the public health officials who want to ban it “food Nazis.” Save the caterwauling for when they try to ban butter and sugar. Or tobacco. At least those are natural.
