Doughnuts in danger? NYC may ban trans fats

[Merika]

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 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.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15020846/
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I know there are people on here who are vegetarian and others who are all about eating healthy, but does the government really need to get into everyone's business and tell them what they can and cannot eat? How about if it were the other way around and a bunch of fat politicians decided all the skinny people had to eat greasy cheeseburgers for a month. It's the same difference.

If we don't stop all this government controls now, I hate to see where our supposed 'freedoms' are in 10 years.

[Vautrin]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Doughnuts are one of the few foods that make me actually GAIN weight. They can't do this to me!

[Merika]

We have so many stupid special interests groups who have no good sense. They back certain politicians just to get their ridiculous agendas on the board. The problem is many of these things get passed as referendums before the public is even aware of them.