Posted on 01/10/2008 7:55:23 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
They may be too unhealthy for regular New Yorkers to eat, but not so for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, apparently.
After gaining national media attention for spearheading an almost total ban on trans fats in city restaurants starting last July, Bloomberg was photographed in this month's issue of Wired magazine munching on those very same dangerous fats.
The photo, which accompanies a short Q&A about technology and politics, features Bloomberg at his City Hall desk, looking thoughtful and serious. Meanwhile, his right hand is seen almost absent-mindedly pulling a Cheez-It out of a single-serving bag of the crackers.
The reader can only assume that the baked snack cracker is headed for the mayor's mouth, and along with it some of the half-gram of trans fat found in every serving of Cheez-Its.
The mayor's food choice directly counters the guidance of his own Department of Health, which specifies on its Web site that "there is no safe level of artificial trans fat consumption." The site also points out that trans fats are responsible for at least 500 deaths in the city every year from heart disease.
That should be cautious news for Bloomberg, who in 2000 had a pair of stents inserted in his coronary artery to remove a blockage. The mayor says he takes a baby aspirin daily to reduce the risk of heart attack.
"The mayor is in favor of labeling and making informed choices," said Bloomberg spokesman Jason Post, who also pointed out that a reduced-fat version of Cheez-Its contains less trans fat. It's unclear which variety sits on the mayor's desk in the photograph.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
I'll take a page out of the other nanny state guy named Mike's playbook (Huck)....I can not bring myself to call Mr. Bloomberg names, but if I did they would be nanny state, paternalistic, elitist, arrogant, snob, communist, socialist, authoritarian, hypocrite, dumbass....
Oh please , Bloomberg paid to have the Trans-fat removed from them... get with the program ... ;)
Well, the FRED did call on the “other” Mike about his nanny state tendencies this evening :)
And this dude wants to be President? ROFLMSS!!!!!!
“lex bovis, non jovis”
(one law for the cattle, one law for the gods),
H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E!
Cheez-its are extremely low in trans fats. So low that they can be called trans fat free.
http://www.cheez-it.com/cgi-bin/brandpages/fileBlob.pl?md5=8e290473417bbae7a7b705f250d483e5
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Bloominidiot’s middle name.
sorry for the double ping to some, but this is just too damn funny.
Maybe he had one of his peons NOT eat trans fats that day, as a trans-fat offset credit. Or maybe he planted some broccoli? Carbon and trans-fat 2-for-1 credit deal!
Sorry for usurping your ping -— but I figure the folks who get a double one will be OK with it — and the others will appreciate the pings.
such is the problem with more than one person having similar subject ping lists :)
http://www.cheez-it.com/cgi-bin/brandpages/fileBlob.pl?md5=700660796108b8e36911e555b8cad44b
No trans fats in cheez-its.
You know that, I know that -— but the average joe schmoe doesn’t know that.............therefore the irony of this hypocrite eating snack foods remains fabulous.
—too bad there wasn’t a bottle of water there , too-—
I’m not a conspiracy nut but if I didn’t know better I would swear that Bloomberg had one of his henchmen disable the link from the Center for Consumer Freedom :-). My computer did some funny stuff for 10 minutes. I think Mike must have talked to Bill Gates.
Does Newsday know it?
When they took the trans fats out of my oreos, my heart broke. They just aren’t the same...
Haha , exactly . I’m sure that’s next ...
I love to eat healthy , but hearty, so my offset is weights and excercise ....
They could be larded in trans fat and Mrs Felis would gobble a box a week, with me not far behind her. Love the things.
It’s only a matter of time before all “hazardous” behaviors are made illegal, and we will have to just go to political rallies in the evenings to while away the time. Like they used to do in some other tolerant garden spots... Vietnam... Cambodia ...
Cheez-Its have 0 trans fats. I just checked my box. ; )
As long as it is below some level of trans fat, they can claim it is trans fat free. It doesn’t mean that there are NO trans fats. It just means that the label can claim there are none. He’ll change that law too.
He is the King after all. We are just mindless subjects in need of his wisdom.
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