Posted on 12/30/2014 9:51:02 AM PST by raptor22
Regulation: Cures for cancer and Ebola having been found, the federal ubernannies have decreed that sprinkles should no longer adorn kids' ice cream because they contain the trans fat that liberal groups once pushed for.
Come the New Year, the Food and Drug Administration, ignoring the principle that in most cases it's the dose that defines the poison, will issue new regulations designed to remove even trace amounts of hydrogenate oils, commonly known as trans fats, from our diets.
Trans fats have been in our foods since the 1950s to increase shelf life and improve taste. A small amount appears naturally in some foods, but research has determined that large quantities of trans fats in one's diet can be dangerous for long-term health.
But so can large quantities of bacon, and no one has proposed banning bacon, at least not yet, but we're sure that thought has occurred to those who want 16-ounce soft drinks banned while forcing our children to eat cardboard school lunches.
Each American consumes a mere 1.3 grams of trans fats per day. That's roughly 0.6% of our total daily calories, and no research suggests that this poses a health risk. But that's not enough to dissuade the federal nannies from regulating even the most minute aspect of our daily lives.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
There’s always bacon grease, although that won’t work for baking.
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Industrially-produced lard, including much of the lard sold in supermarkets, is rendered from a mixture of high and low quality fat sources from throughout the pig. To improve stability at room temperature, lard is often hydrogenated. Hydrogenated lard sold to consumers typically contains fewer than 0.5g of transfats per 13g serving. Lard is also often treated with bleaching and deodorizing agents, emulsifiers, and antioxidants, such as BHT. These treatments make lard more consistent and prevent spoilage. (Untreated lard must be refrigerated or frozen to prevent rancidity.)
Consumers seeking a higher-quality source of lard typically seek out artisanal producers of rendered lard, or render it themselves from leaf lard or fatback.
Source: Wikipedia
Try telling that to all the Drug Warriors on this forum.
NANNY STATE PING
No, it’s Morrell.
If somebody gets desperate for sprinkles, and let’s face it, some people do, you could make an art project out of using boiled or fried rice and food coloring. This is if you just had to have something on top. Or cereal; as in Rice Krispies.
Yesterday’s satire is today’s reality. All we’re missing is what the people in the FDA really think.
I thought all of that was now a vegetable concentrate, not lard.
Don’t tell me not to eat ransfat,I’ll kick your sorry ass!!!!
Time to abolish the FDA?
These unelected phucks have too much power.
Sprinkles are banned but Gay blood donors are peachy keen.
These people are evil.
ha ha you said “ransfat” - is that rancid transfat???
So Sprinkles are Un-Amercian?
Why just yesterday 9 people died from trans-fat on my street...
We purchase pure lard at Safeway to fry chicken like my Mama used to make. I hope your wrong because I’m only 81...
Then the first lady would have nothing to do.
LOL
Buy Manteca at your local Hispanic food place.
Go swallow a lead ball and see what happens, you will see the entire lead ball in the toilet the next day.Go soak it in a glass of water for years and you will see no change in it.
Hmmm, I must have an older copy of the constitution. Mine doesn’t give sprinkle authority to the federal government.
Thank you!
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