French Fries will be banned!
Posted on 09/26/2006 10:07:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
The city health department unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would bar cooks at any of the city's 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain the artery-clogging substance, commonly listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil.
Artificial trans fats are found in some shortenings, margarine and frying oils and turn up in foods from pie crusts to french fries to doughnuts.
Doctors agree that trans fats are unhealthy in nearly any amount, but a spokesman for the restaurant industry said he was stunned the city would seek to ban a legal ingredient found in millions of American kitchens.
"Labeling is one thing, but when they totally ban a product, it goes well beyond what we think is prudent and acceptable," said Chuck Hunt, executive vice president of the city's chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association.
He said the proposal could create havoc: Cooks would be forced to discard old recipes and scrutinize every ingredient in their pantry. A restaurant could face a fine if an inspector finds the wrong type of vegetable shortening on its shelves.
The proposal also would create a huge problem for national chains. Among the fast foods that would need to get an overhaul or face a ban: McDonald's french fries, Kentucky Fried Chicken and several varieties of Dunkin' Donuts.
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Insanity. Pure insanity!
French Fries will be banned!
No soup for you!
What kind of cop is going to bust a doughnut shop?
I'm waiting for them to declare a city wide "bed time." NYC will no longer be the city that never sleeps.
Okay so what's next on the list?
bump
Bloomberg again
I miss Crispy Creams. Used to get them in Houston.
And it all started with smoking...
I like Dunkin Donuts & Crispy Creams
And Mayor "Gun-Grabber" Bloomberg thinks he'll sell in Kansas and Alabama and North Dakota and Texas in 2008 for president?
Seven billion dollars does not buy you any brains
Well, relax, he can't get yours - yet!
As a cop, I can tell you there will be plenty.
from my cold dead pudgy hands!*
Bloomie's a liberal democrat who could not get the dems to run him in NYC
So he swapped parties [he voted for Hillary in 2000]
Like NJ's Governor (ex-dem NJ Senator) he is a multi-billionaire limo-liberal with grandiose ideas of spending OPM in "progressive" social agendas
I know.
Oops, no offense officer.
LOL
Easy to talk on threads, heh?
Not always
Fingernails.
Like the thin-shelled Pelican eggs that we never actually found to be caused by DDT (the actual study showed that Pelicans exposed to DDT actually had thicker egg shells), the current controversy over Trans Fats actually has another side to it. In fact, there are only correlations, no real hard scientific evidence that trans-fats are necessarily bad for you. In fact, some Trans Fats might even be good for you, as was reported in a 2001 issue of Science news:
"What the Harvard report and most news accounts on the FDA labeling announcement fail to note is that even with trans fats, all are not created equal. There is a family of trans fats, known as conjugated linoleic acids (CLAs), that not only appear to fight heart disease, but also cancer, obesity, and diabetes (SN: 3/3/01, p. 136: Good Trans Fats>).
What is certain, is that Trans Fats have certainly saved a lot of lives by keeping food fresh and safe to eat for a much longer period of time than if Trans Fats were not used. Like the DDT foolhardiness, those who will be hurt most by the current hysteria of a Trans Fat ban will not be the citizens of the 1st or 2nd world countries, but those who live in the 3rd world countries where any type of food is welcome, even those kept safe and fresh by Trans Fats.
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Oh, Brave New World!
I favor a city wide bedtime for that town full of pussies.
(And if you object to this; just answer "Who's your senator, hey?)
Yo vill eat healthy and you vill like it! Sieg heil!
And that is why, even though I despise tobacco and it killed my two grandfathers, I have been against the smoking nazis from day one. I knew it wasn't any of the government's business, and I knew they wouldn't stop with smoking.
I said it was coming. Once they finish with smoking, it'll be something else.
Grocery stores, you are next. Your aisles are filled with trans-fat items, not to mention high saturated fat items like bacon, sausage, and hamburger. You must be stopped.
There is an army of worthless bureaucrats that need to justify their existence at your expense. You are next.
New York City Plans Sharp Limits on Restaurants’ Use of Trans Fats
United Pro Smoker's Newsletter ^ | September 27, 2006 | THOMAS J. LUECK
Posted on 09/27/2006 12:42:48 AM EDT by SheLion
and got no replies.
You post the same thread at 1:07 and so far you have 31 postings. I'm gonna cry................
"Okay so what's next on the list?"
Foies gras (goose liver)
Seriously. It's recently banned in Chicago.
Only in Blue cities.
We should ban left wing ideology. When the lefties scream, we should just say that they are responsible for more deaths than cigarettes and transfat combined.
I guarantee they will slink back into their rats nest.
Screed Em, I will eat what and where I want and it won't be in NYC
And another army of trial lawyers right behind them!
Can't wait to read his/her job description (or report).
Can't "We The People" ban NY? Some kind of federal restraining order to keep their collective liberal ijit yaps shut and moron nanny state ideas ending at the Hudson river.
In a related story, NYC Health Department considers a ban on food at all restaurants, citing that eating can lead to obesity.
The food nazis in New Jersey tried to ban eggs in restaurants a few years ago unless they were fully cooked. It was so made fun of and ridiculed they backed off.
Artificial TransFat is completely unneccessary, and frankly foods taste WAY better without them...
You haven't tasted french fries until you tasted them cooked in 100% lard.
Hydrogenated veggie oil was cheap knock off, never tasted the same as the original and frankly health wise its horrible for you.
I think it will be interesting to see what happens when folks actually have good food to eat again
Good idea, hope they do it.
Think of it this way: if we just let the nanny staters save us from all these evil toxic death twinkies it won't matter that St. Hillary's state-run hospitals have a three year waiting list for a heart bypass (but no waiting for the post-op infection that will carry you off). They're just thinking ahead that's all.
Will Mayor Bloomboy ban IMPORTS of trans-fats from states that have weak lard laws?
I'd like to see more of this. I want the nanny staters to overreach so far that nobody takes them serious anymore. I'm talking about the unwashed masses who need to be hit in the head with a shovel several times before a lesson sticks.
Oh twinkies aren't going away.. they are just going to be made with lard or butter instead of artificially hyrdrogenated veggie oils... Going to taste so much better.. Yummie.
Actually, since the government research determined there is ZERO healthy level for trans fat, and the FDA required labels to show trans fat content, most stuff in your grocery store have already or are well on their way to removing transfat from their products.
Go check out the nutrition labels for yourself. Most products have already removed trans fat from their products, because it frankly isn't neccessary, it was cheap (and as we have learned very unhealthy) replacement for the fats your parents and grandparents and great grandparents etc etc etc lived on.
I think you will honestly see hydrogenated oils eventually banned across the board, they are unneccessary and as we have unfortunately learned ghastly unhealthy.
Saturated fat is a whole other issue.. but Trans Fat, particularly the artificially created kind, is a horrible blight on health.. and frankly had the FDA known the long term effects of it back when it was introduced it likely would have never approved it for human consumption.
Lard is not banned under this law.. and lard is not artificially hydrogenated oil.
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