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Nanny State: Sprinkles To Be Banned By FDA
Investor's Business Daily ^ | December 30, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: biggulps; dictator; dictatorship; fda; foodnazis; foodpolice; govtabuse; ibd; nannystate; obama; smokingbans; sodaban; sprinkles; transfats; tyranny; waronsprinkles
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To: Kirkwood

// I do know that a single small jar of sprinkles is sufficient for about 600 Christmas cookies. //

Right. And also that the sprinkles are the LEAST of our worries!

What idiots. I had to double-check that this is not a sick joke...

They can keep their dffgkd hands off my sprinkles!


61 posted on 12/30/2014 10:13:41 PM PST by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: ForYourChildren
Hmmm, I must have an older copy of the constitution. Mine doesn’t give sprinkle authority to the federal government.

It's the Commerce Clause, of course.

62 posted on 12/30/2014 10:24:22 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: raptor22

Thanks.

In seeking basis, there’s 12/22/14 article: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/22/happy-holidays-fda-moves-to-ban-cake-donut-sprinkles/

And for any one who makes fun of conservatives over this, remember how funny “death panels” were to you.


63 posted on 12/31/2014 6:42:00 AM PST by cyn (Benghazi.)
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https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/11/08/2013-26854/tentative-determination-regarding-partially-hydrogenated-oils-request-for-comments-and-for#h-4


64 posted on 12/31/2014 6:45:05 AM PST by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: raptor22

You’ll always be able to buy sprinkles from the guys who sell loosies.


65 posted on 12/31/2014 6:48:21 AM PST by samtheman
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To: tubebender

Lol! May you have many more, and a wonderful sprinkle-filled 2015! :-)

Lol also: // Why just yesterday 9 people died from trans-fat on my street... //


66 posted on 12/31/2014 6:51:18 AM PST by cyn (Happy sprinkle-filled 2015)
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To: samtheman

Ha,ha! Loosie sprinkles,! Love it. Well done!

Pleasure Police on the prowel. They’re relentless.


67 posted on 12/31/2014 9:43:02 AM PST by subterfuge (Minnesota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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To: subterfuge

This news doesn’t bode well.

But I don’t eat sprinkles and trans-fat so its hard to get really upset.


68 posted on 12/31/2014 3:26:36 PM PST by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: raptor22
 
 
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69 posted on 01/01/2015 7:30:39 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: HamiltonJay

“CHOICE” kills 25% of all viable humans before birth.

Let’s ban THAT!


70 posted on 01/01/2015 7:32:59 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: I want the USA back
Government has no right to do this.

Pfft!

Who cares about RIGHTS when you have the POWER!!!

71 posted on 01/01/2015 7:34:29 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Gasshog
Not to worry.

They'll come after you about something...

72 posted on 01/01/2015 7:37:33 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

It’s not just the obvious over-reach of government power and authority, but the question of how much they are spending on this silly crap. How many phoney-baloney government job-holders worked on this incredible non-problem of nano-traces of trans fats in sprinkles. Besides the shredding of the constitution (which is bad enough) it’s also an incredible boondoggle... which is also very, very bad. But the fact is, we’ve become some jaded be so many decades of boondoggle after boondoggle that we tend not to even notice that aspect anymore.


73 posted on 01/01/2015 7:46:14 AM PST by samtheman
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To: samtheman

true.

Raise the temperature of the water slowly...


74 posted on 01/01/2015 3:44:17 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: raptor22

-PJ

75 posted on 01/01/2015 3:49:36 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Gasshog

I don’t eat sprinkles either, but I might want to some day.


76 posted on 01/01/2015 4:37:36 PM PST by subterfuge (Minnesota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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