Trans-Fascism

[AWoodside]

Well, they finally did it, they banned trans-fat.
NYTimes Article

I'll be getting drunk tonight and shedding a tear for freedom.

[theweatherman]

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Well, they finally did it, they banned trans-fat.
NYTimes Article

I'll be getting drunk tonight and shedding a tear for freedom.

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Your final straw is trans fats??!?!?!?

WTF? what about bans on poker? or smoking? or drinking ages? or drug use? or gay marrige? or any of the other gazillion things that are banned in this nation?

The government is fine until it makes something you like illegal I suppose.

[hmkpoker]

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WTF? what about bans on poker? or smoking? or drinking ages? or drug use? or gay marrige? or any of the other gazillion things that are banned in this nation?

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Gay marriage is a pretty lame last straw too.

[xorbie]

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WTF? what about bans on poker? or smoking? or drinking ages? or drug use? or gay marrige? or any of the other gazillion things that are banned in this nation?

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Gay marriage is a pretty lame last straw too.

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It's a lot less lame than trans fat.

[MidGe]

I think this trans-fat legislation is a good thing.

My reason for thinking that it is, are, that trans-fats are used as an economic short-term solution. The fact is that trans-fats are used almost exclusively in low costs meals that people on the minimum wage, if you are lucky enough to get it, have to eat out of economic necessity, not epicurean pleasures, nor health issue (the reverse). There is a very well established connection between the consumption of trans-fats and the increase cost of medical services borne by the community.

Ah well, as long as we don't try to keep them alive at the same time! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[hmkpoker]

You realize that these poor people who were eating trans-fats out of economic necessity will now have to pay more for their meals, right?

[Osprey]

I have an answer!

But it's...... PEOPLE..... it's PEEEEEOOOOPLE..... Don't eat it, it's made out of.... PEOOOOOOPLE....

[Mickey Brausch]

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NYTimes
Trans fats are the chemically modified food ingredients that raise levels of a particularly unhealthy form of cholesterol and have been squarely linked to heart disease.

[/ QUOTE ]But they're cheaper than natural fats! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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“This is a misguided attempt at social engineering by a group of physicians who don’t understand the restaurant industry,” said Dan Flesher, a National Restaurant Association spokesman.

[/ QUOTE ] Notice he didn't say "human health" or "taste", but the "restaurant industry". Exactly.
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“This will be better for people’s health, but we’d like to know where to go from here,” said O’Neil Whyte, a baker at Sweet Chef Southern Styles Bakery in Harlem. “Things without trans fat are more expensive.”

[/ QUOTE ]Quite a dilemma...

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Some restaurant chains are following suit. Wendy’s has switched to a soy-corn blend cooking oil in its 6,300 restaurants in the United States and Canada, and KFC says it will eliminate trans fat in its food by April.

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[hmkpoker]

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Notice he didn't say "human health" or "taste", but the "restaurant industry". Exactly.

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Right, businesses don't matter.

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Some restaurant chains are following suit. Wendy’s has switched to a soy-corn blend cooking oil in its 6,300 restaurants in the United States and Canada, and KFC says it will eliminate trans fat in its food by April.

[/ QUOTE ] They should be rewarded.

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They are being rewarded. Do you see why?

[Mickey Brausch]

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Notice he didn't say "human health" or "taste", but the "restaurant industry". Exactly.

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Right, businesses don't matter.

[/ QUOTE ]I'm in business myself and that was a very wrong reply for a PR person. Also quite revealing. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Some restaurant chains are following suit. Wendy’s has switched to a soy-corn blend cooking oil in its 6,300 restaurants in the United States and Canada, and KFC says it will eliminate trans fat in its food by April.

[/ QUOTE ] They should be rewarded.

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They are being rewarded. Do you see why?

[/ QUOTE ]Yes.

But it helps that the state leveled the field and took away some of the competitive disadvantage of following healthier practices which carry a higher cost.