breitbart.com — State Sen. Ellen Karcher plans to introduce legislation that would bar trans fats from being served by New Jersey restaurants. Such a ban would prohibit chefs from using partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which has been in some types of shortening and frying oil for decades.
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Closed AccountOct 6, 2006
she sounds like Shiela Broflovski....
rattrapOct 6, 2006
I blame the parents.
xeddOct 6, 2006
halleyscomet:"Suck on THAT you damn hippies!"??????HAHA! That's got to be the dumbest comment I have ever read...
xeddOct 6, 2006
halleyscomet:"Can someone tell me where to find politicians who just want everything to run smoothly and let people make their own damn decisions???"Those would be called "Hippie Politicians"...
concertinaOct 6, 2006
@darthleppardDon't forget the best oil in the whole world: hemp seed oil. Nutritionally complete, perfectly balanced omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, antinflammatory, immune-boosting, high in fiber, and 15-20% protein. This stuff is amazing. Shame it's so expensive. And that it has to be grown outside the US. And that it has a low burn point. But really, who needs to fry their food?(vegan for two weeks now, vegetarian for three years)
tallgreenOct 6, 2006
The only thing I disagree with you on is that trans fat are not poisonous like arsenic. Arsenic is not instant death, lots of people in third world countries live on arsenic contaminated water, meaning they are constantly consuming it. Some of them live long lives. Of course its only being ingested in the parts per million where as trans fat is in the grams. But the point i'm making is the word "poison" is relative. Just because its possible to live consuming it doesnt mean its not poison at some level, vitamin A for example. Also, I dont think it's accurate that people have lived long lives consuming trans fats like they are now, considering the process has only been around about 100 years. People definitely were not consuming it in everything they ate until the last few decades, with the rise of fast food and pre-packaged snacks. So we don't really have enough evidence to conclude exactly how it affects us. But we do know its effects are bad. There *is* enough evidence to conlclude that. It's physiological effects are almost immediate when compared to other fats. And above all else, there is no unique benefit to this product. It's only benefit is additional profit due to shelf life. I support governement interference, health regulation, etc because I like knowing that my health is being considered over someone else's profit. It should not take local community action to have a restaurant shut down for questionable ingredients or methods of food preparation. We should have laws the stop people from using overtly harmful products. I mean if it were a drug thats one thing, sure sell it in all the drug stores, but kids are eating this in all their meals because their parents don't know any better. We are not that different, all of us. Everyone wants about the same thing, food that tastes good and is prepared with the interests of health. You probably feel different about health, that it doesn't have much to do with the food available, and it's more about the choices of what food to eat. That's a whole other argument but I'll just say I have experienced enough to know we are what we eat, and most people have no clue, they have no more experience than what they see on tv. There is a reason you can look at dead skin of an American with a mass spectrometer and determine that most of the carbon atoms were derived from corn. A Chinese man's skin would not show this. We ARE what we eat. The quality is of paramount importance. The food americans eat is killing them.
cnottOct 6, 2006
"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." –Thomas Jefferson
triplehelixOct 7, 2006
@kingofwaldosthe FDA is a federal orginisation. a state retains powers over its constituents. if a state sees something that needs to be done, it doesn't have to wait for the federal government to do it.for clarification, they are not looking to ban fried foods, or cooking oil. only a certain mutant manmade cooking oil. you can still have all the french fries you want.