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Goodbye fries? NYC may ban trans fats - Diet & Nutrition - MSNBC.com
What is wrong with this country?
Where will it end?
I have no problem with requiring food manufacturers and suppliers to warn people about the dangers inherent in eating certain foods, but to completely prohibit their sales...?
I just don't agree with that. If you wanna fatten yourself up like Hansel and Gretel on the way to the witch's oven, that's your perogative.
NEW YORK - 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 citys 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain the artery-clogging substance, commonly listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil.
What is wrong with this country?
Where will it end?
I have no problem with requiring food manufacturers and suppliers to warn people about the dangers inherent in eating certain foods, but to completely prohibit their sales...?
I just don't agree with that. If you wanna fatten yourself up like Hansel and Gretel on the way to the witch's oven, that's your perogative.