Posted on 10/30/2007 7:45:23 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
Representative Tyrone Yates, citing rising heart disease and obesity rates, says he will introduce a bill to ban trans fats in Ohio restaurants. Yates’ bill, if passed, allows restaurants to phase out the use of trans fat in deep-frying over a year’s period of time. The Ohio restaurant association has just learned of Yates’ proposal, and hasn't seen it yet. In an e-mailed statement, the group says it supports the gradual elimination of trans fats through a voluntary, incentive-based approach, rather than an outright ban.
“Representative Tyrone Yates, citing rising heart disease and obesity rates”
But mentioning NOTHING about individual restraint or responsibility...
I was traveling over teh weekend and decided to grab some fast food. The french fries made with the new no trans fat oils taste like crap. It leaves a nasty after taste and makes yoru teeth feel like they have fur on them.
Its a great way to get people to stop getting transfats, make everything taste terrible!
Ohio- The new California
OMG, you mean the State of Ohio is currently preventing restaurants from phasing out trans fats and Yates is riding to the rescue? Oh, those poor restaurants. How good of the state to rescue them. /disbelief
Ah yes, the food police are at it again.
We have a winner in the decision making contest. The key question is “What is the alternative?”. The rats flunk again. Besides the terrible taste, I am not sure that the alternative has any better nutritional qualities. The rats need another scapegoat and transfat is an easy target.
Eat Butter, its Better!
It’s never been about trans fats, just as the smoking war has never been about cigarettes.
If I were to guess, all this “health conscience” junk that we have been seeing lately are mere steps to prevent “unneeded” costs when the “inevitable” happens... the socialization of our health care.
APf
What? Huh?
Trans-fats are partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. The “alternatives” include olive oil, peanut oil, corn oil, coconut oil, lard, beef fat, bacon fat, duck fat, and butter.
In what universe does partially hydrogenated soybean oil taste better than bacon fat?
Trans-fats are potentially poisonous and taste worse than the alternatives. I’m about as upset by a trans-fat ban as I am about a ban on mercury in patent medicines.
I agree. Its a matter of not eating that crap every meal.
I have it once a qtr. when I am traveling and regret it everytime.
I think its time for parents to just smack their kids and say, “NO! You can not go to McDonalds”
It was a huge treat for us as kids to go to MCDonalds now its once a day for some kids.
Theoretically if people would stop stuffing their faces and smoking, our health insurance costs would decrease. That’s companies often try to incentivize employees to be healthier.
God how I wish politicians would just stay in public lavatories, where they seem most capable of serving the public.
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take,
their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Better yet, eat palm oil and coconut oil.
I think that’s the FDA’s ‘mission statement’ :)
“Trans-fats are partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. The “alternatives” include olive oil, peanut oil, corn oil, coconut oil, lard, beef fat, bacon fat, duck fat, and butter.”
Olive oil and butter have smoke points too low to use for deep frying; peanut oil causes anaphalactic reactions in a percentage of the population and makes a poor choice for mass-produced offerings; lard and bacon fat are basically the same thing except for the charcoal bits and heavy load of nitrosamines present in fried bacon fat; duck fat is far too labor intensive to render for commercial widespread use; this leaves you with lard and beef fat as tasty, natural fats with excellent high temperature fast frying results.
They have both been condemned by the food Nazis in the past which led to the widespread use of trans-fats in the first place.
Stick with canola oils and put a salt-load of seasonings on it to get your blood pressure up to a rolling boil.
Corn is for fuel.
All the nanny-state, faux do-gooder authoritarianism... with lousy weather, no beaches and crappy scenery. Like California, with no redeeming value whatsoever.
Why it’s important to regulate temperature to avoid smoke:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Smoke_point
Different applications. Try frying your french fries in bacon fat and let me know how that works out. French fries, back when they were good, used to be cooked in tallow. There isn't enough animal fat to replace oils with trans fats and the cost is much higher. Try getting a flaky pie crust using butter instead of Crisco. Won't work.
Trans-fats are potentially poisonous and taste worse than the alternatives
That's nonsense. TFA's are not poisonous in any way. Additionally, they improve the texture and flavor of food. That's why their replacements make the food taste worse. Try eating french fries or Oreo cookies made with the new TFA free oils. They taste like crap.
Finally, TFA's help prevent oxidation which causes the formation of free radicals. With these bans on TFA's Americans will most certainly be consuming more free radicals as their oils oxidize much faster. If you know anything about free radicals you'll understand that this is not a good development. Do gooders usually don't understand the unintended consequences of the stupid decisions they make.
I’m about as upset by a trans-fat ban as I am about a ban on mercury in patent medicines.
That's because you don't understand the difference between them or the fact that this isn't about health. This is about control and, incrementally, the food Nazi's are winning. Trans fats comprise less than 2% of the average American's diet and banning them will have no impact on the rate of obesity or the incidence of chronic heart disease. It will however, take away your freedom to choose and will, most definitely, reduce the quality of many foods you currently enjoy.
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