Trans Fats Get Banned

not all margarine has trans fat...

 

True enough. I do always eat butter though not marg

 

Do you buy your butter at the public market?

 

To be honest I don't eat it much. But when I do buy it, I just get the cheapie supermarket stuff (but from a good supermarket).

I would buy the organic one if I had a bit more cash though.

 

you have to feed your butter grass

 

Hmm why aren't they banning alcohol and cigarettes?

 

you feed butter? hehe

To be honest I don't really care THAT much... why does it really matter anyway?

It's the trans fats I'm mainly avoiding...

Also, I favour saturated fat over unsaturated but that's not set in stone.

 

because those things make you feel good.

 

More nanny state bullshit. Trans fats are bad, but so are polyunsaturated fats, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, MSG, and all the other crap found in processed foods. Going after one thing is kind of pointless when so much of what is out there is loaded with all kinds of nasty garbage.

 

I'd rather see mandated warning labels than outright bans.

 

yeah I agree. Processed food is still going to be bad for you without trans fat.

 

i feel that aspartame and MSG are easier to avoid than trans fat though.

while it goes against my "principles," i really would like to see trans fat get banned. stop companies from putting it in everything, then i won't have to worry so much about if it's in this or that or the other.

 

We can only hope that HFCS is next on that list

 

The corn industry would lobby like crazy to prevent that from happening, more than likely

 

To those claiming this is some nanny state stuff.


"Trans fat is poison. They're not banning bacon, donuts, butter, lard, soft drinks, etc. They're banning a man-made, toxic, industrial substance that doesn't exist in in food anywhere in nature. That's no different than banning any other lab-made toxic substance.

How dare those nanny-state government people tell me I can't paint my walls with lead-based paint and insulate my house with asbestos!

I voted libertarian the last 3 presidential elections. That's how much I like the government telling me what to do, but come on.

You can still kill yourself with all the trans fats you want, by the way. You just have to buy a machine and add the hydrogen yourself."

by EugeneOnegin. From another forum talking about this.

 

The first major difference is that in low to moderate quantities, alcohol actually has some health benefits.

It would be impossible to enforce as we've seen by prohibition. Nobody cares that much about trans-fats, other than the companies that save money by using it. I live in a place that has banned trans-fats and there is no black market for trans fats. Nobody misses it.

Ciggs are a tricky one but it is at least a stand alone product. You purchase it directly. You don't have to go examining every product to see if tobaccoo is hidden in it. Like alchy, people actually care about it and it would have a viable black market.

 

When I first saw this thread I thought "Who is TransFat and I thought we weren't allowed to discuss members getting banned?"

Wrong, because alcohol and tobacco have BIG $$$ behind them.
If Food and Drug laws where there solely for the protection of the public, we would see very different laws concerning drugs, that's for sure.

When I first started to read this article my first thought was "where's the money?" and sure enough;

"The FDA hasn’t yet set a time table for sweeping trans fats from the market. "We want to do it in a way that doesn't unduly disrupt markets," said Michael Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner for foods."

The only way these things change is when public opinion swings far enough to actually start to have a monetary impact, then things change.

 

I don't see banning trans fat or HFCS breaching anyone's civil liberties.

 

The thing is with the interesterification method we doný really know the long term consequences.

http://www.westonaprice.org/know-your-fats/interesterification

 

But it is a move in the right direction. I agree the other things you have stated are also bad for you.