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September 27, 2006

NYC Continuing to Meddle in Private Affairs

Here's a classic example of big government run amok.

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.

This is typical of the liberal mentality, which holds that individuals are so incapable of leading their own lives and making their own decisions that the overbearing nanny state, run of course by liberals, must tell us what to do. What's the conservative alternative?"

Labeling is one thing, but when they totally ban a product, it goes well beyond what we think is prudent and acceptable," said Chuck Hunt, executive vice president of the city's chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association.

As with campaign finance or almost anything else, the right answer is to require full disclosure and then allow people to make their own choices. Transparency, not micromanagment, is the key.

Posted by Jonathan R. on September 27, 2006 10:13 AM

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No government bearing into our lives...

Unless it's gay marriage...
Or wiretapping...
Or bank monitering...
Or spying on reporters...
Or woman's right to choose...
Or end-of-life issues...

But please don't ban smoking, or trans fats. And hands of our guns!

Here's the thing about a trans fats ban at restaurants. Trans fats are never good, and if you are eating out you really aren't going to know if these aritifical oils are put in your food or not. They are artificial, meaning we are making them so they aren't naturally occuring in foods. So why not take 'em out? They don't need to be there in the first place, so why hurt ourselves?

(BTW, I'm not a green freak. Vegan's creep me out, I think being againt GM food is nuts. But I can sort of understand this.)

Posted by: NovaNardis at September 28, 2006 02:44 AM