You’ll Eat What Big Brother Tells You and Like It!
Filed Under: Freedom & Politics
Starting next July, restaurants in New York City are banned from using trans fats in their cooking.
“We don’t think that a municipal health agency has any business banning a product the Food and Drug Administration has already approved,” said Dan Fleshler, a spokesman for the National Restaurant Association.
Exactly. All I want the government to do is ensure no one does anything to me against my will (injure or kill me, steal from me). I do not want anyone telling me what I should and should not eat. Too bad the government won’t consider spending their money on educating the public about trans fats and letting us make our own decisions.
Slippery slope, I tell you.
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Carmi | Dec 6, 2006 | Reply
This is only the beginning: pretty soon, sugar, salt, and processed cheeses with artificial colors will be similarly banned.
As if governments don’t have better things to do.
lance | Dec 6, 2006 | Reply
The only upside of this story that I can see is that this type of legislation is highly visible, so its overreach is obvious, while simultaneously being (and this is cold comfort) not as bad as most things lawmakers pat themselves on the back for, given that market pressures were already minimizing trans-fat usage.
But. But. I wonder how long it will be until a, NYC legislator realizes that eating, say, a BK Triple Stacker is probably worse than ingesting a small quantity of trans-fats. It’s so infantilizing — full-grown adults apparently don’t get to make their own decisions about how to balance choices about their health and flavor and convenience. I’m livid.
COD | Dec 6, 2006 | Reply
Prohibition worked so well the first time we tried it in this country…