Get the government out of my kitchen
FDA looks to ban trans fats. Nannies, I hate them.
11 Responses to “Get the government out of my kitchen”
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November 11th, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Can we now return to tallow for McDonald’s fries?
November 11th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
The funny thing is that I have all but banned them in my life, but I’m not willing to shove guns in people’s faces to ban it from other people’s lives.
The Mrs and I were just talking about this and McDonalds fries. If McDonalds would set aside one fryer, and sell “McDonalds Old Fashioned Beef Fries” I bet that it would quickly turn into half or more of the fryers, and that’s accounting for them doing all the fish and chicken in addition to veggie oil fries in the other half.
November 11th, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Get out of my kitchen, get out of my house, get out of my gun safe, get out of my healthcare, get out of my fucking LIFE!
November 11th, 2013 at 4:47 pm
They also essentially ban Clorox. Poison is poison whether it tastes good or not.
November 11th, 2013 at 6:00 pm
please, do you want the free market to determine if there’s lead in baby toys, too? cutting a toxin out of the food chain is a good thing, esp since the cost of treating fatties passes on to everybody who actually pays for their own insurance.
November 11th, 2013 at 10:20 pm
“…the cost of treating fatties passes on to everybody who actually pays for their own insurance.”
Cracker please! You USED to be able to choose any kind of insurance company you wanted, even one for healthy people, but that was considered so “unfair” that the government stepped into the insurance market before you were born. NOW you say it’s “unfair” that people should make their own dietary choices because the government forces you to pay for their care. Eventually you’ll conclude that the death penalty for poor health habits is the only answer, rather than liberty and responsibility, because you’ll take anything BUT liberty and responsibility.
How about getting the coercion out of the picture altogether, and banning it for all time? Then we can be friends again and live our own lives instead of telling each other what to do at the point of a government gun. How would that be? Hmm? Or is liberty just SO crazy that you prefer coercion?
No; the problem is that hardly anyone alive today has had the American Principles of Liberty explained to them, other than as something horrible and scary to be avoided. Virtually no one alive today can remember a free market in medicine, or in anything else for that matter. Everything you do is touched by a coercive government program of some kind, to the point where many of us will cling to this authoritarian system as though it were reality itself. And who wants reality itself to vanish?
November 12th, 2013 at 1:10 am
I’m a chemist, and I think I can shed some light on why this is actually reasonable and not a crazy intervention in the market. Trans fats were never a targeted end product, they were a byproduct of crude reactions.
Cis and trans refer to two stereoisomers of the same molecule. Natural sources do not produce trans unsaturated fats (with a few notable exceptions such as Vaccenic acid), they are mainly produced through artificial chemical modification of naturally derived fats. Trans fats have never been targeted as end-products, they are always unwanted by-products during hydrogenation (a process designed to increase the melting point of a fat to make it easier to use).
Since trans-fats have never been a target, and since the industry has gotten a lot better at controlling hydrogenation, there isn’t any reason to allow uncontrolled partial hydrogenation as part of industrial food chemistry. So like using PVC for potable water, it’s gonna be banned because it’s a bad idea.
November 12th, 2013 at 1:13 am
Clarification: this isn’t a regulation about what you the consumer get to buy, this is a regulation about the type of chemical processing industrial scale food chemists are allow to do. It’s exactly the same as laws requiring meat to be fresh or banning tetraethyl lead in gasoline.
November 12th, 2013 at 2:21 am
please, do you want the free market to determine if there’s lead in baby toys, too?
Why not? Once a toy gets labeled as ‘bad’ the free market takes care of it.
There are plenty of folks that would love to publish an article/new release slamming a bad product…esp. if it’s the competition.
November 12th, 2013 at 7:02 pm
ha! why not? because kids get poisoned/permanently stunted and someone else bears the costs of care. maybe its the parents, maybe its the school, maybe its the police when that kid is an adult. it’s externalizing the costs of doing business. same with transfats, which Zak N does a great job of explaining.
November 12th, 2013 at 10:13 pm
This never would have even been an issue if the nannies hadn’t pushed trans fat on everyone with their junk science. When I was a kid, McDonalds fries were fried in beef tallow. It’s never tasted the same since they convinced everyone that shit was killing you. Turns out the shit they were pushing was killing you.